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US POLITICS
ROBERT REICH / HEATHER LOFTHOUSE
Robert Reich: Final Thoughts on the Harris-Trump Debate
ROBERT REICH / HEATHER LOFTHOUSE
Robert Reich: Final Thoughts on the Harris-Trump Debate
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eRyaRZnKSk
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
Peter Burgess
- 0:00
- I'm charged up uh but I'm also feeling a
- lot of anger uh because and Donald Trump
- does that to me every time I feel
- because I have for my entire life fought
- bullies I mean you know that's that's
- been my what I do he is the biggest
- bully of them
- all Heather you know K Harris uh has
- never debated in a presidential debate
- before this is Donald Trump eighth
- presidential debate if you count the
- three he did with uh Hillary Clinton and
- the three he did with Joe Biden in
- 2020 and the one he did with Joe Biden
- in uh this year uh the 2024 he's been
- around doing this stuff for nine years
- and she's been here for seven weeks and
- let's think since July 21st how much she
- has gotten done I mean first of all she
- accepted the torch being passed to her
- she found a running mate she launched a
- 1:01
- campaign she did the DNC she's raised
- record-breaking amounts of money she has
- decided and put out her policy positions
- I mean all of this has been happening
- it's been very busy for her but
- Americans generally speaking only about
- 60% of Americans vote in a presidential
- election except what we saw in 2020 was
- that 70% of Americans voted I mean a
- record high number and even in the
- midterm elections of of 2022 uh we had a
- record number for midterm elections so
- people are genuinely interested but this
- is what I felt like all night three
- people there were in one planet and one
- person was on in a different orbit and I
- would kill to hear what people say to
- him when he gets off the stage his Copic
- team oh you did great they're all gonna
- say that because he surrounds himself
- and has his entire life surrounded
- himself with people who say you're great
- 2:01
- you know you're you're divinely inspired
- you're a you're you're you're the head
- of our cult U but notice that his
- technique is to use negative attacks and
- fear that's all he did that's all he did
- all night as a woman I feel like we've
- put up with so much of that in our lives
- where he's like I'm talking you know or
- whatever he said you know or he said be
- quiet please that's what quiet I mean
- he's just it's yeah so I think angry and
- also disgusted and also sad that we've
- gotten this far and that people are
- still willing to put up with this and
- put that reality to the side and say but
- I'm still voting for him because of X my
- pocketbook because of my core values
- that's a horrible one but it's the
- people who are still going to vote for
- him even though they don't like him
- which is a lot of people I've spoken to
- there is eight
- weeks between now and the 2024 election
- 3:02
- if you feel as I do and Heather does
- that this is a critical
- election that the choice here is
- huge that there is actually no choice
- that kamla Harris must be the next
- president and we must we must have the
- Democrats in control of Congress so we
- can actually get this nation back on
- track well then you need to take action
- between now and November 5th you cannot
- be just somebody who sits around and
- watches democracy is not as I've said
- before is not a spectator sport it is
- really something you have to fight for