Headline RoundupAugust 12th, 2024

Can Kamala Harris Win Over Conservatives?

Summary from the AllSides News Team

With the advent of "Republicans for Harris" and debates over whether Kamala Harris' vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz, is too progressive, can Harris win over the anti-Trump conservatives?

For Harris: David French (Lean Right bias) says in the New York Times Opinion (Left bias) he will vote for Harris. "I’m often asked by Trump voters if I’m 'still conservative,' and I respond that I can’t vote for Trump precisely because I am conservative. I loathe sex abuse, pornography and adultery. Trump has brought those vices into the mainstream of the Republican Party. I want to cultivate a culture that values human life from conception through natural death. Yet America became more brutal and violent during Trump’s term. I want to defend liberal democracy from authoritarian aggression, yet Trump would abandon our allies...If Harris wins...conservative Americans will have a chance to build something decent from the ruins of a party that was once a force for genuine good in American life."

Against Harris: Dan McLaughlin (Right bias) says French's case makes some very big omissions. "Nothing else is mentioned of Harris’s views on domestic or foreign policy, her approach to law and the rule of law, how she uses power, or what sort of people she might appoint to the executive and judicial branches (Tim Walz is not mentioned)...Harris is a menace. If one must vote for a menace for the same reasons Churchill would ally with Stalin, one must at least be honest enough to lay out the consequences and why they are worth it," he said.

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