Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump - Who is Stronger Candidate
Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump - Who is Stronger Candidate
Kamala Harris News Presidential Candidate
CNN News
Fox news and wall street general reports
Kamala Harris News Presidential Candidate
CNN News
Fox news and wall street general reports
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00:00With President Biden expected to drop out of the 2024 election, some are rallying behind
00:08Vice President Kamala Harris.
00:10No one knows better how to prosecute the case against Donald Trump than Kamala Harris.
00:14She tried, remember, in 2020 in the Democratic primary, and we'll see if she's able to come
00:19out strong and then maintain that success this time around.
00:22It does put us in a position to have a significantly more competitive election at Joe Biden's state
00:27in the race.
00:28Here's how Harris could stack up in a race against former President Donald Trump.
00:33Donald Trump simply does not have the character to be president of the United States.
00:40Experts say Harris could have a tough campaign trail ahead, but she does have some key advantages.
00:45How do you win the presidency if you don't win the majority of white voters?
00:49You have to check off all of the other boxes.
00:52One advantage Harris has is her potential to win over more women, people of color and
00:57young voters.
00:58We're going to be able to effectively make the case about women's health care.
01:01They're right in terms of choosing how they want to live their lives.
01:05This is a fight for freedom, the fundamental freedom of a woman to make decisions about
01:12her own body.
01:14A Wall Street Journal poll in April found that abortion was the most powerful issue
01:18by far, driving suburban women in swing states.
01:22Over half of the women in the poll said Trump's policies on abortion were too restrictive.
01:27Some Democrats and political experts also expect Harris to invoke more excitement from
01:32Black voters, a critical advantage at a time when support from that group was slipping
01:38for Biden.
01:40As an African-American woman, she's going to have a unique opportunity in terms of how
01:44she communicates and has a conversation with voters in Detroit, Michigan, Philadelphia,
01:49Pennsylvania.
01:50These urban centers are really where we're going to need historic turnout to consolidate
01:55around Kamala so that way we win these critical swing states.
01:59Harris could stand to gain younger voters who had lost confidence in Biden's ability
02:03to beat Trump.
02:04Kamala Harris gets to be the knight in shining armor here.
02:07She gets to ride in on the horse and be the candidate that is not Joe Biden, that can
02:11carry the policies and ideas of Joe Biden without some of the concerns that led to Joe
02:16Biden's decision to remove himself.
02:18A July poll by Emerson College conducted before the assassination attempt on Trump found that
02:23people between the ages of 18 and 29 were the least motivated to vote.
02:28Biden was still leading the Democratic ticket at the time of the poll.
02:32It's the younger Democrats, which is, in my opinion, the base of the party.
02:36And it's more than just voting.
02:37It's about canvassing.
02:38It's about phone calling.
02:39It's about get out the vote efforts.
02:41We cannot do it without all of your help.
02:44All of this is part of the campaign that I think was lacking with Biden.
02:48And that's why we have Harris to see if we can capture that energy that has been missing.
02:55Harris actually channels a lot of the candidate characteristics and features of Obama that
03:01generated this excitement in 2008.
03:02He was awesome.
03:03He was brilliant.
03:04Just what I was looking for.
03:07This is a young candidate of color that is going to sell us on a vision of America that
03:12is multicultural, that is more unified, that is moving into a new future.
03:17At 59 years old, Harris is significantly younger than Biden, who's 81.
03:22We get to go coast to coast without worrying about her energy level in terms of hitting
03:26critical media markets.
03:28Some political experts say Harris' background as a prosecutor helped her come off as a strong
03:33debater in her 2020 presidential campaign.
03:37There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate
03:42her public schools, and she was bused to school every day.
03:47And that little girl was me.
03:48This becomes a moment where Harris looks extremely strong.
03:51Suddenly, she goes from polling in the single digits to close to 20 percent.
03:55And after her vice presidential debate with Mike Pence, polls showed that more voters
04:00thought she won.
04:01Well, let's go ahead.
04:02No, but Susan, this is important.
04:03And I want to add, Mr. Vice President, I'm speaking.
04:07Experts say that in a race against Trump, she needs to replicate that debate's success.
04:12You also have to be very careful because we've never seen someone survive an assassination
04:17attempt and then step onto the debate stage, talk about this openly as a signal of love
04:23of country.
04:24How will Kamala Harris handle the events that have catapulted Trump's popularity and favorability
04:30amongst his base?
04:31Recent polls like this one by Emerson College show Harris significantly trails Trump.
04:37What we've seen over the last year when Biden was on the ticket is Trump had a ceiling of
04:41about 46 percent.
04:43Never does he really go above that number, not before the conviction, after the conviction,
04:47post-debate.
04:48Biden was losing ground or gaining ground, but not being able to get over 45 percent.
04:54Can a Harris candidacy get over 45, 48 percent?
04:58What she really needs to do is get closer to 50 percent, and that could give the Democrats
05:01the edge.
05:02But polls only capture voters' feelings at a specific moment in time.
05:06And these results came in before the assassination attempt on Trump and before Biden dropped
05:12out of the race.
05:13When we're looking at these polls prior to the announcement, these are hypothetical candidates.
05:18And we ask voters who really haven't taken much time to think about these individuals.
05:23So they give you a knee-jerk reaction generally based on name recognition.
05:27With Harris, you see lower numbers in some of these demographics.
05:32But over the course of a few weeks, I expect to see them bounce back in her favor.
05:37But in a toe-to-toe race against Trump, experts say Harris would need to prove that she's
05:42a strong leader, something 44 percent of voters said they were looking for in a candidate,
05:47according to a poll by Monmouth University.
05:49Donald Trump, this is a person that is not shy on confidence.
05:54Nobody knows the system better than me.
05:56The people who are already sort of ideologically aligned and therefore also see Trump as an
06:01effective leader, he's in a prime position to demonstrate this idea of, I am the leader
06:08of the free world.
06:09With Kamala Harris, what will be her I am the leader of the free world moment?
06:14The biggest concern for Harris will be immigration.
06:17My trip to Guatemala and Mexico was about addressing the root causes.
06:22She's going to have to defend those policies.
06:25Kamala had one job, one job, and that was to fix the border.
06:32Now imagine her in charge of the entire country.
06:36But at the end of the day, some experts say this is a race based on personalities, not
06:41policies.
06:42And Harris replacing Biden would force the Trump campaign to change its offensive strategy.
06:48Trump has spent so much time the last three and a half years on Biden.
06:52Could you imagine if Biden was up here and the teleprompters didn't work?
06:57And we'll see how he's able to make his case against Harris.
07:02They can't decide which of their candidates is more unfit to be president, sleepy, crooked
07:10Joe Biden or laughing Kamala.
07:13Harris entering the race now would be the latest a candidate has joined a presidential
07:17election since 1968.
07:20Biden had been the presumptive nominee since March.
07:23This creates questions around how well organized the Democratic Party may be.
07:28It's a very short onboarding process.
07:30Joe Biden, Donald Trump, they've been around.
07:33While Vice President Harris has had an extensive career, it's certainly not nearly as long
07:38as these other two candidates.
07:39But a big question remains.
07:42Who would Harris pick to be her vice president?
07:44It's going to be very important, both regionally and demographically, because she needs to
07:49sure up some of her base.
07:51That decision might be the key to what experts say is Harris's best path forward.
07:56The Obama coalition that we saw in 2008, can you bring that group back together?
08:01That's a coalition of robust historical turnout, African-Americans dominating amongst Latinos
08:07and really holding your own amongst white voters and rural voters.
08:10So that way there's no more bleed to the Republican Party.
08:13What the Democrats really liked was President Obama and his ability to articulate ideas
08:19and talk to groups of people and get them excited.
08:22Yes, we can.
08:23If candidate Harris is able to speak with that confidence and be able to rally groups
08:29with her voice, would be an exceptional game changer in this race.