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Ryuu96 on 24 July 2024
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zorg1000 said:
Chrkeller said:

Getting people to understand the policies, eg messaging, still remains a problem IMO.  

Meaning Harris needs to focus on women's rights, low violent crime, high stock market, Jan 6th coup and trump's conviction.

Keep it simple and avoid controversial policies.  

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And I will never understand why people thought running Biden was a good idea in the first place.  We all knew he had major issues for the last 12 months.

From my perspective liberals hate Trump with a boiling passion, so they need very little motivation to go out against Trump.  The middle aisle, independents and levelheaded republicans are the key target demographic.  Harris gets a reasonable amount of those folks, and the election is over, hence focus on the big talking points.  

Border-This is where Mark Kelly would be a good pick for VP, he’s from a border state and has been critical of some of Biden’s border policies, he can go out there and advocate for a middle ground between Biden’s open borders & Trump’s mass deportation plan. Really push the Senate border bill that has a mix of increased border security & streamlining the asylum process.

Gun Safety-another area where Kelly can potentially shine. He’s a gun owner and his wife survived an assassination attempt. Go out there and talk about how he’s a proud gun owner and doesn’t want to take guns away from his fellow Americans but we need stricter laws to prevent what happened to his wife & Trump.

National Security/Foreign Policy-Again emphasize that she’s a former prosecutor & Kelly is a former Navy Captain and how they are the type of people you want in office to make America safe and protect our allies abroad.

These are reasons why I'm quickly thinking Kelly should be VP, for me it's between him and Shapiro. Like you said, Kelly has more moderate border policies, a powerful story to encourage further gun safety laws but not wanting to take them away completely. He appeals to moderates/independents and he's both a navy captain and astronaut, the image alone is powerful.

Republicans wish they could have a VP as decorated as Kelly, they'll struggle to attack him with anything and Americans love both military veterans and astronauts but my understanding is that Pennsylvania is more important which is awkward...Shapiro may get them Pennsylvania but I think Kelly would appeal more to the entire country.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 July 2024