Donald Trump is Scared to Death of Kamala Harris

And Vance is no help whatsoever

MartinEdic
4 min readAug 6, 2024

--

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

A black woman. An Indian-American. A prosecutor twice elected Attorney General of the biggest state in the union. A woman who can laugh at Donald Trump, then back it up with facts, over and over again.

In many ways this is the Trump campaign’s worst nightmare. And on top of that she is turning out to be a tough cookie under that contagious laughter. So you have a guy born with a silver spoon in his mouth versus a woman of color who is extraordinarily successful, even by Donald Trump’s white rich guy standards.

It’s not a great look. I sat on a bus yesterday and listened to three street people, including one black man, who live on the edge. None of them can vote because they have been in prison, but they spent the short trip gleefully loving Trump and talking about how a woman would totally screw everything up.

This the Trump party line, but it was not going down with other people on the bus, including the African-American driver in my northeastern city. If this is the constituency of Trump’s campaign, I don’t engage them, that is a useless task. But it told me that his rabid followers are not very compelling. In fact, they are wildly offensive to many.

--

--

MartinEdic

Mastodon: @martinedic@md.dm, Writer, nine non-fiction books, two novels, Buddhist, train lover. Amateur cook, lover of life most of the time!