Harris may have been light on policy, but she was able to bait an ‘unhinged’ Trump into a number of traps
I agree with you, except it was smart not to spend too much time talking about what he just said. He said it, and the soundbite is out there. If she attacks him in the moment, he can respond and try to walk it back. Her aim was to get him to say as many deranged things as possible so that he can be memed to death.
The biggest knock against her, and you’ll see it in every article as a way to appear unbiased, was that she didn’t share a lot of details on her plans. But that’s by design. She doesn’t want to describe exactly what restrictions on abortions she would support, because that would become the talking point for the right. She gave him nothing, so Trump had to make shit up about post-birth baby murder. It was a good strategy that worked.
So now we can talk about the bigotry of immigrants eating pets, the nonsense about baby murder, who pays for tariffs, and what constitutes the concept of a plan. Her biggest mistake was looking at him like he’s crazy all night, and saying “this… former president…” Because those are going to become the memes people remember about the night. She did very well overall, but the best thing she could have done was be entirely forgettable.
She doesn’t want to describe exactly what restrictions on abortions she would support, because that would become the talking point for the right.
She said she would codify Roe V Wade into law. We know that is because it was in place for five decades and it doesn’t need to be explained during a debate.
Right, that was the talking point, and that was smart to stick to that. Because it sounds like an answer to the question, but it doesn’t nail down specifics that can be used in attack ads from the right or the left.
Roe V Wade was a court decision that was interpreted and modified through a long history of court decisions. It’s not one set of rights and restrictions.
Here’s an excellent, in-depth summary of all of the relevant court cases that led to the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Org ruling:
To codify Roe V Wade into law would require a constitutional amendment protecting the right to abortion. Anything less will be challenged in court, and unless we can impeach some illegitimate Justices, the SCOTUS is going to continue to push their radical agenda against women.
