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   What Harris Must Do to Win Over Skeptics (Like Me) – The New York Times   
   Di Redazione il 19 Settembre, 2024   
   “What does Kamala Harris think the United States should do about the   
   Houthis, whose assaults on commercial shipping threaten global trade,   
   and whose attacks on Israel risk a much wider Mideast war? If an   
   interviewer were to ask the vice president about them, would she be able   
   to give a coherent and compelling answer?”   
      
   Fonte: The New York Times   
      
   Autore: Bret Stephens   
      
   Link: What Harris Must Do to Win Over Skeptics (Like Me)   
      
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   https://www.yahoo.com/news/anti-trump-columnist-says-harris-160017257.html   
      
   Anti-Trump columnist says Harris hasn't earned his support yet:   
   'Widespread perception of unseriousness'   
   Jeffrey Clark   
   Wed, September 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM PDT·3 min read   
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   New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is staunchly anti-Trump but said   
   he isn't sold on voting for Vice President Kamala Harris yet, saying she   
   can no longer afford to dodge giving specific answers to media questions.   
      
   "If, as president, she had intelligence that Iran was on the cusp of   
   assembling a nuclear weapon, would she use force to stop it? Are there   
   limits to American support for Ukraine, and what are they?" Stephens   
   asked in an opinion piece from Tuesday, also listing difficult questions   
   about the creation of a "Palestinian state," the housing crisis, and the   
   possible role of "nuclear power in her energy and climate plans."   
      
   Stephens criticized Harris for her "lighter than air" answers to   
   questions in interviews with CNN reporter Dana Bash and 6ABC's Brian   
   Taff, in his piece headlined, "What Harris must do to win over skeptics   
   (like me)."   
      
   HARRIS TELLS NABJ SHE EXPECTS TO 'EARN' THE BLACK VOTE THIS NOVEMBER   
      
   Kamala Harris and NY Times' Bret Stephens   
   New York Times columnist Bret Stephens argued in a recent op-ed that   
   Vice President Kamala Harris can no longer afford to dodge serious   
   answers from the press about the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war,   
   nuclear energy and other important issues.   
   "It may be that Harris has thoughtful answers to these sorts of   
   questions," Stephens wrote. "If so, she isn’t letting on."   
      
   Harris has gone 59 days as the presumptive, and now, official Democratic   
   nominee for president without holding an official press conference.   
   She's started to step up her interviews, sitting with the National   
   Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday in Philadelphia.   
      
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   "All this helps explain my unease with the thought of voting for Harris   
   — an unease I never felt, despite policy differences, when Hillary   
   Clinton and Joe Biden were on the ballot against Trump," Stephens wrote.   
   "If Harris can answer the sorts of questions I posed above, she should   
   be quick to do so, if only to dispel a widespread perception of   
   unseriousness. If she can’t, then what was she doing over nearly eight   
   years as a senator and vice president?"   
      
   "Illiberal populism has taken root in response to well-founded   
   perceptions of elite incompetence, highhandedness and self-dealing,"   
   Stephens continued. "Does Harris have anything to offer disaffected   
   voters, or does she merely embody the elitist perspective that they   
   despise?"   
      
   LAST MAJOR UNION YET TO ENDORSE IN HARRIS-TRUMP SHOWDOWN NEARS FINAL   
   DECISION   
      
   Trump Harris side by side split   
   Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris   
   The columnist said that Harris cannot hide behind the "all-purpose   
   response" that former President Trump is an "existential threat" to   
   democratic institutions that her campaign has often relied on.   
      
   "But: Trump," he wrote. "That’s the all-purpose response for many voters   
   to any doubts about Harris’s qualifications."   
      
   "It should not be hard for Harris to demonstrate that she can give   
   detailed answers to urgent policy questions," Stephens wrote. "Or to   
   express a sense, beyond a few canned phrases, of how she sees the   
   American interest in a darkening world. Or to articulate a politics of   
   genuine inclusion that reaches out to tens of millions of distrustful   
   voters. Or to prove that she’s more than another factory-settings   
   liberal Democrat whose greatest virtue, like her greatest fault, is that   
   she won’t step too far from the conventional wisdom."   
      
   The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment   
   from Fox News Digital.   
      
   Fox News' Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.   
      
      
      
   Original article source: Anti-Trump columnist says Harris hasn't earned   
   his support yet: 'Widespread perception of unseriousness'   
      
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