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Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?

It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

Maggoty ,

Because Trump’s base does not care and Harris’ base does. It’s really that simple.

ChonkyOwlbear ,

Can you imagine a woman or a black man (let alone a black woman) running for president while being three-times divorced with kids from multiple partners and having cheated multiple times on top of that? Even if they were rich like Trump, it would never fly.

transientpunk ,
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

You forgot to add convicted felon

BadmanDan OP ,

Obama’s political career would’ve ended the second “grab em by the p****” got leaked.

Feathercrown ,

People really really want to root for their side. If a comparison can be made in the slightest that your side is also doing something right, or that the other side is also doing something wrong, they can twist their viewpoint to see both sides as equals. You have to be flawless to prevent this. Your worst has to be better than their best.

HobbitFoot ,

I feel like a lot of people on Trump’s side don’t care and all of his issues have been documented in the press. If people cared, he wouldn’t be this close.

You also have enough people left of Harris who don’t want to hold their collective noses and vote for her. They’ll complain about the Overton window shifting right, but won’t be a bulwark for keeping it from shifting right. Hell, there are people on Lemmy complaining about political utilitarianism as a reason for voting for Harris and will even complain about Bernie if he says something being done by the Biden administration is good.

acosmichippo ,
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

it’s so frustrating. I admit I used to vote green, but the entry of Trump opened my eyes. Things like judge appointments, incremental advances in fighting climate change, and NOT having a seditionist as president are all issues we can’t afford to lose on in the next 4 years just for some rhetorical vote for the Green Party.

in a perfect world we’d have ranked choice voting, but we aren’t in that world.

distantsounds ,

Demand ranked choice voting and make sure you are doing so locally

KillingTimeItself ,

move to maine, and you’ll have it.

Realistically, you shouldn’t move to maine, and you should popularize moving towards something like IRV instead of FPTP

snausagesinablanket ,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Because 95% of GOP members have the IQ of a starfish.

swordgeek ,

She is female.
She is black.
She is strong.
She is not a puppet.

She is EVERYTHING that the power structure fears, because she will be hard to control, and likely cost them a lot of money and power.

distantsounds ,

You really should have stopped before

She is not a puppet

breetai ,

The president isn’t in charge of COVID. States are in charge of COVID. Pandemics are handled by the states with help from the federal government. BLM protest are once again state issues. I’m not sure why so many Americans don’t understand how the government is run. Presidents are not dictators. They are limited by the constitution and laws.

No why is the split so close? Harris isn’t a good candidate. She’s wildly unpopular and has been for years. He policies are horrible and the average American doesn’t want them. They are the opposite of what Americans want.

Biden has always been fairly unpopular. I’ve always thought the guy was an idiot but he isn’t far left. He fairly moderate to Leaning a little right.

We also have a large red/blue divide in this country and presidents are picked by the EC.

Trump is a horrible candidate but things ran well when he was in office. People will remember that.

The short version is we are running two awful candidates and that’s why the elections are close.

BadmanDan OP ,

Idk about that, several polls are showing Dem enthusiasm around 75-85%. That’s way more than Biden earlier this year. Harris’ base seems to like her.

breetai ,

They’re just excited the person isn’t half dead.

She wasn’t able to get a nomination through the standard channels. They had to put her in the back because they felt she was damaging Biden approval ratings.

He approval rate is low.

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/…/kamala-harris/

More people disprove than approve.

I proudly voted for Obama Kamala is not Obama. She’s not Clinton. Hell she’s not even a Joe Biden.

Tixanou ,

It’s so harrisover

Bunnylux ,
@Bunnylux@lemmy.world avatar

Why the fuck do you think? People hate women

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

Kamala Harris is a non-white, non-GOP woman. Period.

Hegar ,
@Hegar@fedia.io avatar

Our electoral system is just shit.

She's way more popular and so are her policies, but having the support of the majority of voters doesn't guarantee victory like it would if we lived in a democracy.

BadmanDan OP ,

It’s insane how the PA suburbs are essentially deciding the next president…

laverabe ,

It’s simply tribalism at this point. Most people who still support Trump are simply supporting their tribe, whereas on the left most people still believe in the virtues and merits of democracy.

I still feel like democracy will win the day. Most of Trump supporters are 50/60+ and his message doesn’t seem to resonate as well with younger people.

Feel free to post any political stuff to !politicaldiscussion if you’d like. You’re welcome to crosspost this there too if you’d like more discussion on it.

nondescripthandle ,

Shes a woman, shes not white, and shes a democrat. Take your pick.

MataVatnik ,
@MataVatnik@lemmy.world avatar

Because we can’t mock Trump and their supporters if Kamala fumbles. As long as she doesn’t fumbled we can mock them with impunity

_bcron ,

MAGA terrorists have assaulted newspeople, destroyed cameras, whole 9 yards. Might be some of that mixed in with everything else. Fear of retaliation or whatnot. Most of these people have public-facing jobs with little to no security detail and Trump’s supporters range from civil to psychotic

KillingTimeItself ,

PUT ME IN COACH!!!

seriously though, i think i would rather be murdered by a MAGA loser than be a fucking cringe ass hack shill.

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