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Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris sat for an interview with Fox News anchor Bret Baier on Wednesday night and skewered Republican nominee and former president Donald Trump on several occasions.

Lincoln Project founder Rick Wilson: “Kamala came to Fox to stack bodies.”

In the most controversial part of the interview, Baier played a clip of Trump insisting that liberals were the enemy because he has been investigated “more than Al Capone.” When Baier asked for Harris’ reaction, she pounced:

“With all due respect, that clip was not what he has been saying about the ‘enemy within’ that he has repeated when he’s speaking about the American people,” Harris said. “That’s not what you just showed.”

Baier tried to interrupt, but Harris kept going.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The interview was interesting and glad candidates are willing to go into these hostile territories even if the conversation falls on deaf ears. For me, I was never undecided. I am voting Democrat.

What I want to know: will a Kamala-Walz adminstration have a unified house and senate to push this country forward (getting Roe v Wade codified to start)? All of this focus/media attention on the presidential elections but we need to flip seats.

What’s the temperature across the country right now?

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's good odds of flipping the house back, and we've got a decent chance of keeping the senate or getting a 49-50-1 senate with a union leader Indepdent from Nebraska

The campaigns themselves do also focus on those down ballot races. We can help with those!

Find opportunities to volunteer for dems around you and online

Write letters to voters in competitive downballot races (or swing states too)

Donate or volunteer for the Nebraska Indepdent Dan Osborn for senate (no dem running by intention)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

Agreed we gotta vote blue down ballot in order for any real change to be possible. Im hoping that people realize what a threat the republican party has become to the very soul of what America stands for. So here's hoping.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s going to be really challenging for Democrats to win the Senate this year. The map is just really challenging and they’re defending a lot more seats. Anything is possible but it’ll take some upsets. https://www.270towin.com/2024-senate-election-predictions/

President and House are toss-ups. But if Kamala wins, 2026’s Senate elections look to strongly favor Democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Ah, 2026 - that's a bit of good news that I wasn't expecting. I guess it's too soon to know if Dems will retain the House then, but once Dems control all three -