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Kamala Harris Is the Jan Brady of the 2020 Race
from the article:
"Thatâs become her caricature on the trail over the past few months, and it crystallized three weeks ago during a CNN town hall in New Hampshire. She kept responding to questions in the same way: ducking direct answers and saying, over and over, that she wanted to have âa conversationâ about what to do. â[Harris] wants to study stuff. [Elizabeth Warrenâs] college debt plan is âa discussion we should have.â Reparations is âsomething we should study,â tweeted the former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, annoying but rattling members of the Harris team I spoke with.
âIs Kamala Harris Too Cautious? Letâs Have That Conversation,â was the mocking headline a few days later on a column in the San Francisco Chronicle, her hometown paper.
Harris has had enough, and so have a number of aides who have spoken with me directly and others about the current state of the campaign. She thinks cable and Twitter have been trying to dumb down the primary process, and that too many of her fellow candidates are playing along.
âThis is not a game show where youâve got a buzzer, and you should hit the buzzer, and you can win some money,â Harris told me over the phone last week. âI think we need to really agree that shouldnât be the kind of incentives weâre havingââthat âthe pundits will be clapping and happy if, within 30 seconds, you answer the question thatâs on the board.â
âPeople shouldnât confuse: Being quick with an opinion [doesnât mean] that opinion isnât necessarily a smart or well-thought-out one,â she said. âI prefer to have a smart, well-thought-out opinion on an issue than give a quick response to a question thatâs presented, when Iâve not actually done the due diligence from hearing from whoever might be impacted from that position.â
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from the article:
"Thatâs become her caricature on the trail over the past few months, and it crystallized three weeks ago during a CNN town hall in New Hampshire. She kept responding to questions in the same way: ducking direct answers and saying, over and over, that she wanted to have âa conversationâ about what to do. â[Harris] wants to study stuff. [Elizabeth Warrenâs] college debt plan is âa discussion we should have.â Reparations is âsomething we should study,â tweeted the former Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod, annoying but rattling members of the Harris team I spoke with.
âIs Kamala Harris Too Cautious? Letâs Have That Conversation,â was the mocking headline a few days later on a column in the San Francisco Chronicle, her hometown paper.
Harris has had enough, and so have a number of aides who have spoken with me directly and others about the current state of the campaign. She thinks cable and Twitter have been trying to dumb down the primary process, and that too many of her fellow candidates are playing along.
âThis is not a game show where youâve got a buzzer, and you should hit the buzzer, and you can win some money,â Harris told me over the phone last week. âI think we need to really agree that shouldnât be the kind of incentives weâre havingââthat âthe pundits will be clapping and happy if, within 30 seconds, you answer the question thatâs on the board.â
âPeople shouldnât confuse: Being quick with an opinion [doesnât mean] that opinion isnât necessarily a smart or well-thought-out one,â she said. âI prefer to have a smart, well-thought-out opinion on an issue than give a quick response to a question thatâs presented, when Iâve not actually done the due diligence from hearing from whoever might be impacted from that position.â
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