Kamala Harris lecture

1,5 hour

NL, EN

Willem Post has been following Kamala Harris for years. Will she become the new U.S. president?

In 2019, Willem Post followed Kamala Harris extensively in Iowa, among other places. He wrote and talked about her a lot in Dutch and Belgian media. To this day. In the Volkskrant in July 2024, he wrote: "In October 2019, I followed presidential candidate Kamala Harris extensively in Iowa. I saw her sitting proudly on the stool at a barbecue. She did not give a traditional speech full of campaign praise, but wiped the floor with President Trump for half an hour. Even now I can still hear the echo of the shouted cry, 'Justice is on the ballot. We grab him!'

'That's Kamala Harris. A prosecutor at heart who can completely fillet a criminal opponent. If a Democratic presidential candidate in 2024 needs anything, it's that quality.

'Harris will be portrayed by Donald Trump as an airhead, hailing from the socialist stronghold of California. An upfront failed presidential candidate and vice president.
'Indeed, the then inexperienced Harris ran a weak campaign with no clear program. As vice president, she was initially an outsider on the team Biden had been working with for years. She was given impossible dossiers to smoothly strengthen democracy and solve the migration crisis.
'But Harris grew. She became a confidant of Biden. She was the first to call for a truce in Gaza. She is traveling the country on issues like free abortion choice and reducing student debt. Unlike Biden, she will also appeal to young people, women and voters of color. She is progressive as well as pragmatic. If Democrats get behind her smoothly and in unison, she can surpass Hillary Clinton and become the first black, female president

What are the pluses, what are the minuses? An engaging lecture on who she is, what she stands for. And above all, can she win?

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