A Right Wing Cannot Flap Alone, or, Donald Trump Screwed the Putsch

[A Black Falcon]

On the subject of Harris and policy, while you are right that the Trump campaign was caught quite off-guard by Biden withdrawing, the attacks will come.  Here's a new policy-focused ad from the Republican Senate candidate in Pennsylvania attacking her, showing clips of her support for many liberal policies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvyJf4K1kFE  'Look at the scary liberal pushing lefty policies!'

Of course, she won't run on all of that stuff now -- running for US President is very different from races in California -- buet she'll be attacked for it for sure.  Of course, though, today issues don't matter as much as they used to, not when Trump would love to end our democracy and most people know it.  So it remains to be seen how much damage ads like that will do.  Obviously there also will be innumberable anti-Trump attack ads, but most people already know what he stands for.  Even though she is VP Harris has more to introduce people to.  The start of her campaign has been strong, without the Republicans immediately finding a good attack line against her and with great fundraising numbers and increasing polls, and I very much hope that continues, but ads along the lines of that one are something that probably will hurt.  Of course, she's not as liberal as that ad makes her look -- there is also a clip of her criticizing the BLM movement, saying that we shouldn't 'only build schools and not prisons' has issues, but since when are attack ads entirely accurate? Since never.

Covid didn't cause the inflation.  Biden didn't either as you say, but neither did Covid.  Greed caused it.  So many corporate leaders were upset at what they felt was "owed" them that they jacked up prices.  The recent soft landing from the inflation that Biden helped to stabilize (wow that's two for two defenses here) proves it was the oligarchs responsible.

There were many causes for the inflation and corporate greed was certainly one of them, but it wasn't the only cause, no.  That's too reductive, there were many real shortages that drove up prices for example.

Harris not being "voted for" seems to be their big argument, that she somehow "stole" this.  As much as I wish we had had a more robust primary, especially now, we didn't get one, and more importantly, anyone that voted for him in this primary ALSO voted for Harris, and when you vote for a VP it's with the full understanding that VP is going to replace the P if something happens.  Resignation is one of those things.  This is entirely natural a progression.

Yeah, this one is a pretty funny attack of theirs.  Whether Dems are happy or sad that Biden is out, this 'they're overturning the primaries!' attack is so critically flawed that it's ridiculous.  As you said, everyone votes knowing that the VP will replace the President if something happens.  It's not like she was dropped for someone not on the ticket at all, there would be more of a point that way, but with the VP replacing the President, things are pretty much working as the system intended.