Kamala Harris says Trump should be scared to debate her

[bluewater]

On the latest podcast episode of Jemele Hill is Unbothered, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) pulled no punches. While the senator’s well-known megawatt smile and infectious laugh were on display, the former California attorney general also had a few stern and serious messages to convey. [snip]

Why She Decided to Run
The thing that really at the end of the day compelled me to make the decision to jump in this race and I was talking to my sister about it, is I felt so strongly and really quite emotional. And what this is what I said: “If I don’t get in this race, there is a voice that will not be present on that stage and a voice that needs to be heard.”

Why She Wants to Include Bills Like Rent and Utilities in the Credit Score
So here’s the thing, credit score is your credit score. If it’s good or bad, we’ll determine whether you have access to capital, whether you have access to loans. One of the things that we don’t measure, which I intend to change, is we don’t really have [an] accurate measure of people’s financial responsibility. For example, in your credit scores, they’re not measuring the fact that you pay rent on time. Let’s measure that. Let’s measure the fact that people pay their phone bill on time. Let’s measure the fact people pay their utilities on time because that’s an indication of financial responsibility, which is the whole point of it. Are you financially responsible so that I loan you this money? Well, so I want to change it.

Breaking Down the Gender Wage Gap
We’re talking about things like equal pay. The equal pay act was passed in the United States of America in 1963 we’ve been talking about this and talking about this and talking about it. Well, fast forward to the year of our Lord 2019 and women are still paid 80 cents on the dollar, black women’s 61 cents on the dollar, native American women, 58 cents, Latinas, 53 cents. I’m done. Like we don’t need to debate the question any longer. Are women paid equally for equal work? It’s a non debatable point. The question becomes what are we going to do about it?


Creating True Pay Equity for Women
So here’s what I’m prepared to do. I’m prepared to say I’m going to shift the burden from that working woman to prove to the employer that she’s not getting paid the same amount for the same work and shift the burden to the corporations to prove that they are paying women equally for equal work. If they are not, they will have to pay a fine, which will be for every 1% differential between what they pay men and women. It will be an equal 1% of their profits from the year before. That’ll get their attention.

https://thegrio.com/2019/07/17/sen-kamala-harris-says-trump-should-be-scared-to-debate-her/

[Kahuna7]

1. Debating doesn't matter. Hillary kicked his butt every time. If the debates mattered...

we'd be calling Hillary, Madam President.

[mtnsnake]

8. Didn't matter. Hillary was the only candidate that could possibly have been beaten by Trump

at that time. Even though she would have made a fine president, by the time 2016 rolled around she had garnered way too much baggage, courtesy of the lying Right Wing. Hillary was a rallying cry for every right wing asshole to get out there and vote against her.

You're right about the debates not mattering, though, but the reason they don't matter is because of the ridiculous manner in which they are set up. They aren't debates. They're prepared campaign speeches.

[stopbush]

10. 1. She won by 3-million votes 2. Russian interference

[Kahuna7]

12. If debates mattered we would have had President Gore, President Kerry..

and President Hillary Clinton. People vote for who they favor, regardless of debates.

[DesertRat]

2. I don't think he'll debate

He'll complain about the network, venue, etc. and just refuse to debate whoever is our nominee.

[Merlot]

3. Of course he'll be scared to debate her, that's why he won't.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. Sen. Kamala Harris is no pushover...I think she, and all of our current candidates would ...

make rump dizzy and pass out, being unable to answer any of the debate questions and trying to prove that he is even near the level of competence as ALL these democratic candidates are...

[TheRealNorth]

5. That depends

If Harris thinks she is going to own him on the basis that she can argue the facts- I don't think It will matter. She needs to be able to make a mockery of the political theatre that Trump will fall back on.

In other words, she needs to make him look like an idiot, not prove that he's an idiot.

[highplainsdem]

6. Trump should be scared to debate any of our candidates, and he probably is. I don't expect him to

agree to debate our nominee.

If you're wondering which Democratic candidate he's most afraid to run against, it's pretty clear it's Biden, especially since Trump's own polls showed him losing to Biden in states he needs to win.

Polls of head-to-head match-ups pretty consistently show Trump losing to Biden by the widest margin. Including polls showing Harris losing to Trump.

[Skya Rhen]

7. +1,000,000

[mtnsnake]

9. If Trump tries to stalk Harris like he did behind Hillary, he'll be in for a big surprise, I'm sure.

She will not ignore his shenanigans.

[DownriverDem]

13. Seriously

I do not believe a woman will win. I hope Biden wins and picks a strong progressive Dem woman as his running mate.

[LeftTurn3623]

11. Debates do matter

and I agree with Harris. She would be the last one Trump would want to debate.

maybe not the nominee he would hate to face the most in the election (I still think that is Biden). But I would pay good money to see Harris debate Trump.

Although I think all of them would beat Trump in a debate.