No more interviews until after the debate?

Maybe. However, we’ve seen the fall of an awful lot of norms lately. Eg Voters did not punish Trump when he refused to release his tax returns, or properly divest his business holdings. And when it was suggested that Trump wouldn’t debate Kamala, right leaning posters here defended the approach.

Similarly, there are a great body of hardcore dems and never Trumpers that would vote for the D candidate over Trump regardless of whether they have a single interview in their lives. And I understand this. I mean, if Trump stopped giving interviews, would you change your vote to Harris?

 

Listen, voters only care about the things that I think are important about a candidate. Any things that are bad about my candidate they don't care about, but the smallest thing about your candidate? Hooboy - that's really going to matter with independents and undecideds.

 

I agree with this. She is objectively winning this race at the moment (more accurately, Trump is losing it). When you're ahead in football, do you take risky shots down field or do you run clock? In my opinion, she is not a very good public speaker even when she is on script. Being off script magnifies her weakness quite a bit. If I was on her campaign team, I would advise she say as little as possible and let Trump beat himself with his own mouth. I expect the debate to be a very vanilla affair where she again says as little as she needs to and lets Trump hang himself with ad hominem attacks and such.

 

As you say. Trump is winning. So is Russia. So much winning. They're both getting tired of winning. But it sounds like you have nothing to worry about then. No need to try goading her into giving more interviews or participating in any more debates. After all, you're winning. Hugely.

 

No, my outlook is pretty poor no matter who wins. You’ve got me dead to rights there. I’ve got clowns to the left of me who don’t understand how to resist Russia, China, and Iran. And I’ve got jokers to the right who don’t understand why we need to. And here I am stuck in the middle …

 

If nobody cared about tax returns, why did that norm arise and get maintained for decades?

If there is a 20% middle that can be influenced, it would seem to me that Trump’s previous actions would have already turned many of them off.

 

Have Harris and Trump already debated? Apparently Harris participated in an interview prior to the debate.
Harris sticks to economic pitch in first Hispanic media interview

 

I've heard this take about Kamala not being a good speaker quite a bit lately. Was she somehow bad at the DNC or in any of the recent interviews, including Jimmy Kimmel? I don't know definitively, but the prepped speeches I've heard recently were pretty good.
My pipe dream, though, would be a Buttigieg vs. Trump (or Vance or virtually anybody else) debate. Pete is as solid as there is at debate imo. He would dismantle Trump and embarrass Vance (not literally, as Vance is probably too stupid to feel embarrassment).

 

Please put that on the poll thread. Thanks

 

It’s a snapshot in time and for all intents and purposes it’s a tossup. The outcome will probably be shaped by events that haven’t happened yet.

 

Anyone saying Harris is a good speaker would then have to answer why Harris hasn't sat down for any 1 on 1 interviews? IF her camp thinks she's a good speaker then they should have her out on the networks because according to Silver she is behind right now.