Thirty-two supposedly undecided voters gathered in Aston to hear Kamala Harris try to win them over.
I am undecided. Partially. I am decided against Donald J. Trump, but not in favor of Kamala.
I don’t know about the 32, but she moved me in her direction.
She was calm, cool, collected, cogent, and passionate, standing up for 75 minutes. Her policy points bored me. I’ve heard them all before. Her incessant anti-Trump rants, with the addition of the recent remarks of former Chief of Staff John Kelly who called his former boss a fascist. I’ve heard it all before.
Actually, there were a couple of points that rang my bell, but I’ll get to them in a moment.
What interested me more were some personal revelations.
Such as, she prays every day. Sometimes more than once.
After she got the fateful call from Joe Biden, with him saying he would drop out, the gravity of the situation struck her.
She called her pastor because she felt she needed spiritual advice and support.
She reminded me of another vice president, Harry S Truman.
Upon becoming an accidental president, he expressed his reliance on God and asked for prayers from the American people, stating that he felt like “the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen” on him.
It was humility, and I saw that in Kamala, too.
I know her mother died 15 years ago, and she said she still grieves for her, but remembers her when she was healthy, before being struck by cancer.
My mother died 17 years ago, turned into an empty shell. But I remember her as happy, and well, as I did Wednesday, which was her birthday, and I grieved.
There were two questions that resonated greatly with me. A female Realtor asked specifically, what Kamala means when she says the rich will have to pay their “fair share,” given that 40% of Americans pay no federal income tax.
It took her a while to restate her promise that no one making less than $400,000 would pay more, but dodged when moderator Anderson Cooper asked if that meant people earning $500,000, $600,000, $700,000 would pay more.
It depends, she said. So, specifically, she did not answer.
A marketing guy said Delco people were authentic, and there were questions about her authenticity, as her far left views have shifted to the center.
She started with fracking, but Cooper threw in others, such as Medicare for all, and decriminalizing illegals.
Here she said as vice president she had traveled the country, gained experience and perspective. Ah, so close. If only she had gone farther, as I had suggested in a recent column.
OK, it’s not all about me.
She didn’t have a good answer on how to combat anti-Semitism, few people do, and when side-stepping a question about the U.S. sending arms to Israel, which results in Palestinian deaths, she neglected to mention that the war started by Hamas’ brutal attack on Israel.
Cooper reminded her she called Trump’s desire to build a wall “stupid,” but she now favors $650 million to build a wall.
Is that wall stupid, asked Cooper?
The way Trump wanted to do it was stupid, she replied.
The most remarkable thing that happened was the first questioner was identified as a student at Bryn Mawr, and a Republican.
A Republican at Bryn Mawr. Was this CNN or Pranked?
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