Nigel Farage has torn into Kamala Harris after a car-crash interview with Fox News. Confronted with a poll showing over 70% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track— a track Harris has been a part of for over three years —her response was even weaker than her usual word salads:
“And Donald Trump has been running for office, since… you know what I’m talking about.”
Err… no we don’t. Farage didn’t mince his words, posting on X, “She’s even more stupid than I thought.” And this could be the next Leader of the Free World…
The ever-insightful News Agents have released a new podcast analysing what Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris means for the US election. For Emily Maitlis, this has completely changed the game in way nothing else could, profoundly stating it “has just fundamentally changed the race” for any voter under 70-years-old. The Swiftie said:
“I mean be in no doubt this will rock the entire electoral axis in the States. This has just fundamentally changed the race, by I’m going to say pretty much anyone under-40, but maybe it’s anyone under-70, I don’t know, but I think it will. Look, this is undoubtedly huge news.”
It’s reminiscent of when Owen Jones (40) stated “Russell Brand has endorsed Labour – and the Tories should be worried”. Sadly for Ed Miliband, the celebrity backing wasn’t quite enough to clinch electoral victory in 2015. Clearly Emily hasn’t learned how overstating the power of a celebrity endorsement can leave a hack red-faced…
Last night’s Trump vs. Harris debate was fairly underwhelming. The commentariat consensus is Harris came off better than expected. The bar was quite low for that…
It’s worth noting she didn’t say much about her own platform during the debate. Little on policy, more on laughing at Trump…
A fired-up Trump, on the other hand, took aim at Harris’ U-turns on key policies, from fracking to police funding, as well as delivering some tough talk on immigration and ‘woke’ ideology. He later blasted the debate as a “three-on-one,” with the TV moderators asking Harris easy questions on democracy while often interrupting Trump (to ‘fact-check’ him). While snap polling suggests Harris won the debate, the question still stands: if she can ‘do great things,’ why hasn’t she?
This morning the Today Programme brought on the BBC’s North America editor, Sarah Smith, to give her analysis of Tim Walz‘ running-mate speech at the Democratic National Convention. What followed was pure fawning praise:
“It was a very impressive performance from somebody who is not an experienced public speaker and he gave the energy of your favorite high school teacher suddenly stepping up to the plate and telling the country things could be better I thought it was really interestingly brief which is always merciful in political speeches and extremely effective and he showed that this is a man who is a campaigner who is ready for the national stage even though I think most people in that hall had not heard of him three weeks ago.“
Nick Robinson tried to offer some counter by weakly adding that Republicans call Walz a “phony“. Smith was having none of it:
“That was a man dripping in authenticity that we saw appear there tonight. Somebody really very very unaffected by the national stage who looked entirely what he is: A former high school teacher a former football coach, the governor of a small state who’s proud of what he’s achieved in that state and who wants to bring things to America. There is nothing about him that seems contrived in any way at all. Now maybe you don’t want somebody bringing the ‘big dad’ energy to the campaign maybe you don’t like his small-town values but I think it would be very difficult to describe him as a phony of any kind.“
Robinson then also gave up with the impartiality malarkey and said Walz is a “very good warm-up act too“. To much agreement:
“He does, and and he was talking a lot about how proud he is of Harris and how great she will be for the country and he was a very very effective spokesperson for her.“
The entire 23-minute episode of Smith’s Americast episode about JD Vance’s RNC speech featured only impartial, to-be-expected coverage. Guido leaves it up to co-conspirators to decide whether today’s coverage corresponds with the BBC’s impartiality guidelines…
Last night in Chicago, President Joe Biden struggled to deliver what was supposed to be a fiery speech, ultimately passing the baton to the electoral candidate Kamala Harris. True to form, Biden slurred his way through more anti-Trump jabs, dredging up the tired and discredited claim that Trump called Neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people” after Charlottesville. For those keeping score, Trump was referring to those defending a statue of General Robert E. Lee, not the extremists. Biden also doubled down on the “bloodbath” hoax, whilst saying under Trump, women do not have “electoral” power…
Biden finished strong, welling up as Harris came onto the stage after saying farewell to his party: “I made a lot of mistakes in my career, but I gave my best to you.” Bye-den…
Kamala Harris has confirmed her selection of Minnesota’s Governor Tim Walz, as her running mate in the US election – the man who went viral for calling Trump and JD Vance “weird”. Insightful…
Walz has been lauded by the left for his “liberal policies” as Governor, which include making breakfast and lunch free for all students, allowing undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licences and signing a bill mandating schools to stock period products in boys’ loos. Aligns with Harris’ woke policies then…
Walz is famous for his climate crusade, splurging hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to cut carbon emissions, while jacking up gasoline and motor vehicle sales taxes. He also slapped a 50-cent fee on deliveries over $100. He’s been slammed by Republicans for his tax-high budgets – proposing and implementing a fifth income-tax tier for married couples earning more than $1 million as well as higher tax rates on capital gains. His reason: “That just makes it fair”. Walz, along with tax-happy Harris, could create one of the most left-wing, high-tax environments America has seen in a long time…
