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In an elegant performance at the debate last night, Kamala Harris showed that she is a sound candidate for president of this country.
From the outset, when she walked up to Trump to introduce herself and shake his hand, she beamed with confidence. ‘I belong here,’ she was telling us.
And she was in command throughout.
She was the one looking at him with a smile as if saying, ‘what else you got for me? Because I’m ready to bat it down’.
A friend of mine offered that Trump was negative throughout and indeed he was.
‘The rest of the world is laughing at us’ he proclaimed with indignation.
By contrast, Harris beamed with optimism. We are a nation, she said again and again, we need to work together.
Instead, Trump was continually divisive, putting people down, calling Biden and Harris the worst ever president and vicepresident.
Wanting to cite other leaders who support his world view, the best he could come up with was Victor Orban, Hungary’s president, a devout Putin supporter.
Harris smiled and even laughed throughout.
I was expecting a good performance but she did even better.
She offered validation of the difficult process the democratic party went through following Biden’s debate performance in late July which convulsed the party and led to his moving aside.
Her transformation from the candidate who dropped out of the race in 2020 to the debate’s performance, is exceptional.
Harris proved that she was not going through the…
