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US POLITICS TIMES RADIO ON KAMALA HARRIS ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Times Radio: Trump’s strategy ‘completely backfires’ as he ‘struggles’ with speech PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGo14KMnRHs Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess
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Transcript 0:00 he's also completely caught by his own strategy which was to portray the other guy as being older um and less able to function on a day-to-day basis than uh he was he wanted to be the energetic younger candidate despite his age and his occasional Meandering um and that has completely backfired on him H you know he now looks like the guy who is almost 20 years older than her um he looks like a guy that you know struggles to pull a decent speech together so K Harris described Donald Trump as a dangerous and unserious man and promised Americans a new way forward as she forly accepted the Democratic party's presidential nomination at their convention in Chicago there was some detail on how she'd reform Reproductive Rights on the economy and bring about a ceasefire in Gaza question some people are asking this morning is did she do enough as this piece by David Charter um online right now if you go to the digital edition of the time saying that it lacked policy and empathy the um 1:01 Nikki what did you make of K Harris's speech well I think it did what it needed to do I me it came at the end obviously of um a pretty extraordinary you know four or five days for uh the Democrats I think the thing that really struck me was uh what a difference this uh convention uh was um compared to how it would have been had Joe Biden been continuing as their candidate um and you got the impression that the Democrats were incredibly pumped up uh but um it was a whole level of energy um that it's extraordinary to to to see did her speech do I think what she had to do was to introduce herself to more to the American people who despite the fact that she'd been vice president for nearly four years probably people don't really know her well because no one ever really hears from the the vice president unless things go uh very wrong and I think it I think it did that I think it introduced um uh her background obviously her husband spoke um earlier in the week uh she's got a lot of 2:00 obviously the big name supporters um and I think there's probably there's time really for uh the policies and the vision thing to uh to follow she's got the first televised or perhaps the only televised debate between her and Trump coming in um earlyish September um and I think I think all she needed to do really was to was to just to be herself to just to show uh why why she's not uh Trump and to give that level of energy and I thought the other thing just finally the word they used of the week was Joy which is not a word you often hear in political campaigning and yet I think probably it's the word that the American people do need to hear really interesting what are your thoughts Jack at the moment I think this is one of the smartest political campaigns that we've ever seen uh you know she's gone from someone who didn't have great uh public support uh five six weeks ago uh um didn't seem to have particularly 3:02 strong support in her own party and whose judgment was not really um trusted uh in full and I think she's shown in the tone of the campaign the energy she's given to it the sort of determination and strength from time to time that she's shown and in her pick for a vice presidential candidate um she's shown characteristics that um most of us have never seen before even those that watch the Democrats very closely um I also think I I I think the use of the word freedom is uh is incredible I'm looking at this and I am literally punching the air with a light you know we have allowed on the in the left of center we have allowed um the far right and the right and in America certainly the Republicans um to to capture the the commitment to Freedom um and to use that in their 4:01 rhetoric unchallenged and sometimes we've been at fault I think on the left using the state too much or you know at least implying that we want to interfere in people's lives but I think the way that she has completely redefined the the American commitment to freedom in the last fortnite is just astonishing and it gives all of us hope that we can we can rewrite the political script around the world that people who believe in democracy believe in Freedom uh and uh people who believe in the rule of law believe in Freedom uh people who believe in human rights and um societal development believe in Freedom uh and I think this I think it's remarkable I thought Tim waltz's speech which focused largely on this on uh on um on Wednesday night it was just it was a remarkable redefinition of the political territory and they've done it in five weeks and uh um Trump is floundering and uh you know it's not over yet but I think it's a 5:01 remarkable remarkable campaign over the past month but Nikki I guess this is one of the criticisms that comes KLA Harris's way is that she does have great script writers like Jack's talking about there you know the Way She is delivering those speeches is really good but as yet she hasn't done a sitdown interview with a journalist that sort of picked Apart Her policy she hasn't done a press conference where reporters have been able to ask her questions and she's had to come up with answers off the calf on the hoof and I guess that is a different kind of challenge which may well come and and many people who are Democrats saying it will come but in some ways it's kind of easier when a script is Well written as they evidently are at the moment well yeah of course that's that's right um and uh you know when you've got somebody else writing a words or she will have given presumably a framework of of the the tone that she wants to to strike and the personality she wants to convey and everything else but even so I mean I was talking to somebody who was there I mean that is a was a massive 6:01 Convention Center far bigger than anything we could ever imagine for party conferences here um and she's got to speak to to those thousands of people in the room but also you know to to prime time TV audiences and I think there was a question mark about you know she has just hasn't done a speech that big could she do that she she's done that she's more than more than done that and I think you know you're right Chloe which is obviously now comes you know more detailed media scrutiny and and uh interviews I think the debate in September will be a critical moment I mean that was the moment that undid Joe Biden for example um so there is lots more to to to come um but she has so far met every hurdle that people have said you know can she do this can she can she do that um and I think Jack's absolutely right about you know the the the use of the word freedom but also I think the sort of um patriotic tone that is very important I think for US presidential candidates to to strike and she starts off just by saying you know I love my 7:00 country and there was lots and lots about America and what a great country it is and it is a very clever campaign and it'll be fascinating to see how Trump really does respond if he responds if he leaves it to to Vance his vice presidential candidate whether he leaves it to to others whether he just ignores um uh KLA Harris uh entirely and just goes back to talking about the issues that he has been uh pushing for uh for a long time um so but look it's going to be a very tight contest there's no doubt about it yes camel Harris has put the Democrats back in contention but there is still a long way to go before we get to that first Tuesday November Jack we spoke a little bit earlier on to Brett bruan who used to work for Obama at the White House and he was saying that KLA Harris's tactic um towards Trump has been really successful so far because she's made him look pathetic and she doesn't engage with him on his terms and he felt that that was what was really successful and I guess that's what is the challenge for Trump at the moment he 8:00 almost doesn't quite know how to deal with KLA Harris he doesn't know which approach to go for and he's trying lots of different ones he doesn't seem to have landed it whereas KLA Harris seems to have so far got it right with her approach to Trump well he's also completely caught by his own strategy which was to portray the other guy as being older um and less able to function on a day-to-day basis than uh he was he wanted to be the energetic younger candidate despite his age and his occasional Meandering um and that has completely backfired on him you know he now looks like the guy who is almost 20 years older than her um he looks like a guy that you know struggles to pull a decent speech together um and uh and I think the debate I agree the debate is going to be fascinating and I really I really like the way that she has um she maybe hasn't set out lots of detailed policy positions but most American elections are not about lots of detailed policy positions there are one 9:00 or two big picture issues that really divide people and you need to win that argument for your side but the other thing is is to set out the perception that people or convince people um that you can be their leader that's what they're most looking for um are you going to stand up for them are you going to be their leader can they trust you to make the day-to-day decisions better than the other person and I I think she's been very smart you know she Hillary made a bit of mistake maybe back in 2016 talking about uh the glass ceiling all the time she hasn't referred to that she's not trying to get elected to to do something that nobody's ever done before she's trying to get elected because she's going to be a better president and she's got a better vision for the country um I was at the Obama convention in 2008 in Denver Colorado um where the big theme was yes we can and at that point it was all about cracking that first ever uh black president with a young articulate smart um candidate uh 10:01 this on this occasion it's much more about you know do you want a president who's serious who's on your side um and who's going to put together a team that's going to run the country well um but also Believes In Hope and opportunity and and and raising people's uh living standards and uh I I just think she's getting the tone right so far it's a long way to go it's very very close um you know Americans are are are conservative uh with a small C by Instinct but if she if she can persuade all those in the middle ground that she's not a threat to them and she will protect them and look after them um and uh and and let him portray himself as this old guy who's uh speeches are wandering all over the place and who's defensive and and a little bit over sensitive then um I think she's got every chance of uh of making even more progress

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