Harris Energizes Crowd In First Rally: “Baton Is In Our Hands”
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, the scenario Republicans dreamed up, turns out it might be a nightmare they can't shake. |
| 0:08.0 | Tonight, on Laura Coast Live. life. Okay, so riddle me this. |
| 0:20.0 | How is it that a campaign that spent literally months arguing that President Biden was not fit to run and should not be running? |
| 0:27.0 | appears to now be caught flat-footed when he decides to get out of the race. |
| 0:31.0 | You really didn't follow what that thread could possibly mean. |
| 0:34.7 | It's not Kamla Harris came out of nowhere, right? |
| 0:37.6 | I mean, she is the sitting vice president. |
| 0:39.6 | Her name, it was on the bumper stickers. And for for months candidates just that a vote for |
| 0:45.0 | Biden was a vote for Harris. So what was the Republican political strategy to |
| 0:50.2 | perhaps combat the possibility that it might in fact be her. |
| 0:54.4 | They appear to be starting from scratch and the itch seems crudely familiar. |
| 0:59.1 | Step one, find a nickname, but Trump hasn't seemed to decide on one as of yet. |
| 1:04.0 | He seems to go back and forth between insulting her as laughing Kamala and lying Kamala. |
| 1:10.0 | Step two, define her, or at least try to define her in the first 72 hours since Biden |
| 1:16.2 | decided to not run for re-election Republicans have been all over the map on how to define her exactly including debating whether to |
| 1:24.4 | ignorantly attack her as some D. E.I. candidate rather |
| 1:27.5 | acknowledging her formidable resume is worthwhile. |
| 1:35.0 | I don't think we need to even say stuff like that. Don't think so. |
| 1:37.0 | Look, Kamala has it because her record is abysmal. |
| 1:40.0 | We are just repeating what Joe Biden himself said and I dropped the receipts. |
| 1:45.0 | Well Vice President Harris for her part she seems to be paying none of this any mind. |
| 1:50.0 | She hit the ground running today as the de facto nominee. |
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