Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? - eviltoast

It feels like Harris has to run a damn near flawless campaign just to BARELY beat this guy. Yeah you can bring up the current state of the country, but Trump mishandled COVID, there were over 200k deaths, BLM protest and was 2x impeached. And yet, Joe Biden BARELY beat him.

Trump is a convicted felon, liable sexual predator, caused an insurrection on the Capitol Hill, tried to steal the 2020 election (find me 11,000 votes), constantly kisses Russia’s ass, has more pending court cases and gets sentenced next month and overall has been the main driving factor in America’s division.

Yet, this race is STILL either 50/50 or a slight tilt (Harris leads the polling aggregate right now). Harris gets destroyed by the corporate media for almost anything, yet Trump is still lying and saying the most outlandish shit and nobody cares.

Why does it feel standards are much higher for Harris than Trump?

  • BadmanDan@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    It’s wild that Trump has done things far worse than watergate, and still got the nomination.

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      It is. The world is stranger than I could possibly ever have imagined. Sometimes I play a thought game. What if I had to explain this to, an alien.

      “Yes, this is how it works. Are you going to destroy us now? Yeah, we probably deserve this.”

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        My game is explaining this to my dad who died in the mid-80s. Cannot even summon words.

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      It’s not wild, it’s the GOP plan since Nixon got nabbed.

      Drumpf just happened to have that crazy crowd draw, so they yoked their hopes that he would be the first king of America, and disregarded everything else to forward that goal.

      Cheetolini could eat a baby live on national television and his numbers would barely dip.

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        I don’t think they took him willingly, since he is a narcissistic moron. I think they were stuck with him when he managed to win over the far right radicals they have been grooming for decades. He is a racist schoolyard bully making their enemies angry, that’s all they care about.