Re: "The View" Gave Walz A Chance To Bail Kamala Out: Watch What Happened

On 2024-10-21 3:16 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Oct 21, 2024 at 12:00:57 PM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
 

Vice presidential candidate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz (D) was unable to
name any areas on Monday where Vice President Kamala Harris has different
policies than President Joe Biden.
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Walz made the remarks during an appearance on ABC News' THE VIEW when
confronted with polling that shows that only a small portion of the country
believes that a Harris-Walz ticket would bring change to America.
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"Governor voters are saying change is a critical issue this election, but our
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ABC poll shows only a third of Americans believe a Harris-Walz ticket would
bring that change," said co-host Sara Haines.

 And even if you admit to the desire for change, doesn't that naturally lead to
question: Change from what? Can't be Trump. Trump isn't president. And the
only logical answer, given who is currently in office is "change from four
years of Kammie and Grandpa Badfinger".

The other question this raises is: change TO what? In other words, what would she do differently? She's been evasive in the extreme in answering THAT question.
This leaves open the distinct possibility that despite her relatively centrist official policy platform, which only got written after she was gifted the nomination without any competition, she'll actually govern far to the left of that once in office. After all, she had a much further left platform when she was running for President in 2019. I am extremely doubtful that her current platform reflects her actual views of what those policies should be. It's a longstanding practice for leftist politicians to campaign in the center but then govern farther left.
If she's actually elected, there is very little to stop her from suddenly deciding that fracking is awful after all and Medicare for all is brilliant, etc. etc.

 So if Kammie is running on a platform of change, isn't she implicitly asking
you to vote for Trump?
 

Unless her plan for change is to govern much farther left than Joe Biden did.

Haines then asked Walz the same question that she asked Harris during her
interview on the show: "Can you point to a policy decision over the last four
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years that you and the vice president would have handled differently from
President Biden?"
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Walz responded: "Well, I think she's, this expansion on Medicare is something
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that I wish would have been proposed sooner. But look, they're tackling the
issues that they needed to do."
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Walz then blamed the pandemic on former President Donald Trump

 He blamed it on Trump, not the Chinese lab where it was created and from which
it escaped. Yeah, that makes sense.
 

No one ever called Walz (or Harris) a genius....
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Rhino