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Showing Original Post only (View all)Do you agree with Katy Tur about this? [View all]
She just stated on her show that Kamala Harris ran with "Donald Trump is bad. You need me because he's bad. They were running a negative campaign based on their feelings and what they thought were the voters' feelings....there were voices yelling that you need to have a positive message, you need to give voters something to vote for, not just something to vote against."
That's not how I remember it at all. Kamala Harris did make concrete proposals to help average Americans. And her proposals were much more specific and realistic than trump's. Of course she went on offense. Of course she criticized him. She would have been insane not to. But the idea, which Tur is stating as fact, that she offered no positive vision, is just not accurate.
Just as they've done with President Biden, the corporate media is working full time to rewrite history.
Edited to add that later she was calling out the winner in the NYC Mayor race for offering free stuff, and said something like she would love free childcare, to which Ashley Parker piped in that she would too.
Of course the implication is that it's unrealistic and gimmicky to offer
"free stuff", but what struck me was the lack of self awareness of both her, and to a lesser extent, Parker. The AVERAGE PARENT would not just "love" free childcare, they NEED it. I'll spell it out for Katy: they don't make cable news salaries like yours. You can afford your own childcare. Get it? Wow. Even by her standards, that was tone deaf.
