Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to have a “fine” debate performance on Tuesday, according to Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita, who made the remarks during a call with House Republicans on Friday, Axios reported.
The Trump team does not foresee Harris’s debate performance being disastrous for the Democrats, unlike President Joe Biden’s widely criticized performance earlier this year, which led some Democrats to push for his withdrawal from the race.
Harris has been preparing for the debate this week, media reports suggest, although some indicate that her preparation may not be going as smoothly as her campaign hoped.
Harris aims to avoid a repeat of her 2020 primary cycle, when then-Rep. Tulsi Gabbard harshly criticized her left-wing record during a debate, a blow from which Harris never fully recovered. Harris was the first candidate to drop out of the race that year.
With only 60 days remaining until the presidential election, time is running out for voters to fully understand Harris’s policy positions and how she plans to address the nation’s issues under the Biden-Harris administration.
Since entering the race on July 21, 2024, Harris has participated in just one pre-recorded interview. In that time, her positions on key issues have shifted or remained unclear in at least nine areas, including:
Plastic straws (Flip-flopped)
Mandating electric and hydrogen vehicle production by 2035 (Unknown)
Fracking ban (Flip-flopped)
Gun buyback program (Allegedly no longer supports)
Decriminalizing illegal border crossings (Allegedly no longer supports)
Reparations (Unknown)
Building a border wall (Allegedly no longer supports)
Federal jobs guarantee (Allegedly no longer supports)
Medicare for All (Flip-flopped)
These shifts could open Harris up to attacks from Donald Trump, who may portray her as willing to change positions to secure votes.
Harris also faces a unique dilemma. She cannot campaign on fixing issues like crime, inflation, and border security without indirectly criticizing the Biden-Harris administration’s policies, which she needs to defend to bolster her own candidacy.
CNN’s Dana Bash highlighted this contradiction during Harris’s first pre-taped interview in August. Harris defended the administration’s economic record while simultaneously blaming Trump, a move that exposed a sharp contradiction as she struggled to reconcile her administration’s policies with her campaign message.
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