The Vice Presidential Candidates Help More with the Election Decision Than Trump and Harris

Donald Trump is running a surprisingly weak election campaign, while Kamala Harris is exhausting herself with her family history and attacks on the opposition. Very different from the vice presidential candidates, JD Vance and Tim Walz, who both debated knowledgeably and clearly. This makes their bosses’ shortcomings all the clearer.

Sometimes, the cover version is superior to the original. For example, the cover of “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix sounds much more memorable than Bob Dylan’s original. Sometimes the same thing happens in politics. In the TV debate between the U.S. vice presidential candidates on Monday, both Tim Walz and JD Vance presented their candidates’ platforms much more credibly than Kamala Harris and Donald Trump did.

Harris limited herself in the TV debate and in her few interviews to retelling her family history at length, criticizing her opponent and simply ignoring any questions about her thin political platform. In his debate with Harris watched by millions, Trump gave in to egocentric monologues about the numbers attending his election campaign events instead of effectively confronting Harris with the Democratic administration’s governing record. Both candidates are obviously more interested in themselves than political subjects.

This is very different from Vance and Walz. Both knowledgeably discussed in detail proposed solutions to the immigration crisis until the moderator urged them on to the next topic. Both made up for their bosses’ deficits. Vance appeared to have a clearer and more coherent idea of Trumpism than Trump does himself. Also, as governor of Minnesota, Walz can actually claim to have pushed through an agenda that benefits working people.

This raises the question as to whether the respective No. 2 Democrat and Republican would not have been the better choices for the presidential nomination. Since Harris’ enthronement, Trump has run the most incompetent of his three presidential campaigns.

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Instead of returning to his populist beginnings (strengthening the industrial basis, no new wars, criticism of the establishment), he now promotes strange cryptocurrencies, attends fewer election campaign events and has hardly any new ideas.

Meanwhile, Harris is so in love with her own pseudo-meaningful sermons that she forgets to credibly explain to people how their life would be better with a Harris presidency. In any case, the TV debate may have been more helpful to clueless voters in making their decision than the theater that Trump and Harris offered during their duel.