What Would A Kamala Harris Presidency Look Like?

Welcome back to Hypotheticals, everyone. Today, we’re taking a deep dive into the official Kamala Harris platform and examining what a Harris presidency may look like.

As of August 5, 2024, Kamala Harris is officially the democratic nominee for president, and will face off against Donald Trump this November. Polls have flipped pretty incredibly in her favor, and some now project her as the favorite to win the election. If you want to learn how she may win, feel free to check out the last video that I did, if you haven’t already.

While Harris has been surging in the polls, her platform has remained somewhat of a question mark. She’s been reluctant to do many press conferences with reporters, and as of writing this script, her official website doesn’t have an actual platform tab on it, unlike other presidential candidates.

In other words, we’re going to have to piece this thing together. Before doing that though, let’s take a few minutes to learn a bit more about Kamala Harris. While she’s served as Joe Biden’s vice president for the past three and a half years, the rest of her political history isn’t as well known. Let’s jump into it.

Thanks so much for watching!

Video Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:57 Who is Kamala Harris?
3:07 Kamala's Economic Stances
8:34 Kamala's Foreign Policy Stances
13:25 Kamala's Social Policy Stances
17:06 Time Is Ticking...

[hypotheticals]

Feel free to check that out if you want to learn more about her campaign (though I will say, I think I did a decent job speculating based on the materials I had at my disposal). Additionally, I've seen quite a few comments to do one of these videos on Trump's Agenda 47, which is his official campaign platform for the 2024 election. That's next on my list, so stay tuned for that. Anyways, thank you all so much for the support, I'll see you all again soon!

[wrechord]

Brother, the tax portion of the video is why I’m here. Don’t ever call it boring

[Kyle_Broflowski]

holy hell an actually unbiased and factual video

[raeyner]

I *really* don't like that she hasn't formalized any policies on her site yet. It feels like she's running on being whatever people want her to be, rather than on any hard points. I applaud the amount of digging you've done to put this together. This has been immensely insightful.

Edit; since I don't intend to mince my words in light of the debate (especially now that I've had time to think a little more on it; prior to looking at the breakdowns others have made I'm going to break down my thoughts on the present state of affairs, please feel free to educate me, I love reading other points-of-view; if you care what a politically disenfranchised young adult has to say in 2024, anyway.

I've taken a look at her website and it looks like she published issues shortly before going on air. May have been sooner, but I digress.

Watching the debate, I notice she side-steps a lot of questions (which, okay, sometimes both parties do that, but that's whatever you make of it) especially the ones that were important to the struggling middle-class of this nation.

A friend I was speaking with expressed to me with frustration that the job of the vice-president is the advise the president in areas where one may feel he is lacking. He proposed that if she is incapable of co-piloting our republic through such turbulent water as today, she is surely not rated to sail us into the treacherous seas of tomorrow.

I also noticed that she is extremely expressive throughout. She reacts dramatically to every utterance from 45, which I found distracting. She doesn't have many notable comebacks to counter Trump. Some of her fiercest blows consistently associated him with pj2025 (which my own poking around associates with the heritage foundation, haven't rabbit holed this yet; feel free to inform me) when he has no such affiliation.

I feel like if they believe so strongly that he has something to do with it, they should be able to clearly articulate why that is. I don't think their argument holds water. If I understand, they express "because he's already implemented some of the things in the project, he is destined to implement all of the other things listed in the document."

I find it fallacious. (If one were to adhere to this argument, I could use the same claim to draft a project of my own, and point at things 46's administration has gotten up to and attest that the past writes the future without any contention)

While Trump defended himself pretty well I'd say, given biased moderators (I know; thrilling, how exciting, sure this event isn't going to go precisely the way we anticipated it going) he did have some short-comings. I feel like he's going to turn around this year.

Kennedy has attested that the Donald Trump of today is not the same Donald we had 8 years ago, or the one we had 4 years ago. I frankly agree. My reasoning is the Donald Trump who won the presidency in 2016 didn't have any political experience. Because of that, he began to run the nation similar to a business.

He hired the people his helpers told him to, and he had to find out the hard way that person wasn't great. So he'd elect to fire them and look for a new role to fill the position. Let's admit; Trump has been wailed on by both sides of his party, so in turn, he has gained much experience.

The most expensive part of learning a new role is the mistakes you're going to make along the way. Most people don't do things perfectly; leaders are seldom ever perfect. The imperfections in our leaders are their defining characteristics. We all lead lives built by experience, and the further along we plow through adversity, the more weathered we become.

He will be running this November with the experience of a former president who has watched his opponent in office destroy the economy of his nation practically overnight, while demonizing him and using the press and the courtroom to inspect his every flaw.

That's 4 years of experience running the country MODERATELY OKAY. Like, I can't think of any genuine gripes off the top of my head and I could afford to live. He just acted like a doofus sometimes and said stuff he could've worded better.

As evidence of the above, I present, THE BLOODBATH REMARK. The democratic party and the people critical of Trump often claim he said that if he wasn't elected, there was going to be a bloodbath. Yes. He did. He said that there would be a bloodbath in the automotive industry if he wasn't re-elected. Leaving out the context around the topic of a quote is disingenuous at best and malicious at worst.

To get back on track, with this experience on his chest, and being so obviously targeted by a biased system, he's starting to be forced to recognize issues where he went wrong. He now has Kennedy and Gabbard on his side, CAN WE TALK ABOUT TULSI AT SOME POINT? SHE'S PRETTY COOL HUH, anyway now he has two actual democrats who have realized that their party has shifted away from it's values and is slowly casting people astray

People, there's supposed to be something going on in D.C towards the end of the month, some little music get-together, a gathering of the minds if you will. I'd love to start talking less about how Trump might end the world and more how he might build a functional government that actually works for it's people with the aid of outside voices and the gift of past experience.

Look forward to hearing what the other minds have to think. And of course, if you made it this far, thank you very much for your time, and for the obligatory numbers. I'm happy to share this world and this nation with you.

[LordGecko]

My biggest problem with envisioning a presidency from any politician, regardless of party, is that you almost can’t take any promises made as something that WILL happen. Politicians will say anything to make themselves look more appealing during election season. A great example: “Read my lips”

[GoldenAngelX]

We would eat coconuts and listen to Charlie xcx all day while recapping the context we exist inside of

[ayveer]

she’s not addressing the actual issues, only temporary solutions.

[hudsonchidlow]

I love the simplicity of the stick figure, for some reason it actually makes it more entertaining.

[sargentthiccboi]

It seems like she flips a lot on what she’s supporting

[LightGardenFlowing]

Got a trump ad before this and he called her “comrade” to insinuate Russian ties and I this election is taking a year off my life every day

[smileeface]

Weird I got a kamala ad before this video

[Ckproduction]

“Under Bidens watch” should be changed to “under bidens and Harris watch”. Idk why we are acting like she hasn’t been in a highly prominent position for four years

[hectorb]

I took more than 1 economics class in college, all of her economic policies are inflationary. She doesn’t even understand the basics of supply and demand

[connorsullivan]

Taxing unrealized gains for investing is actually an insane concept.

[yogi]

"Democratic nominee"

No no - the Democratic Appointee... Let's get it right.

[maximperekopskyy]

Ukrainian here. Some of the people I talk to believe that Harris would be more hawkish on russia than Biden, I personally am not sure, but her foreign policy advisors would probably not be Obama era failed "deescalators" based on what I have seen. While we appreciate all the help, Biden's passivity is costing us a lot.

[altoic]

Kamla recently clarified that the 25k in support would be a tax-relief of up to 25, 000, not 25, 000 in actual credit/money. This should be prefaced because unlike a 25, 000 credit inflating prices, a 25, 000 tax credit wouldn't.

[seedlesswatermelon]

Not that I think this video is badly made, but comments about this video being "without bias" are just not correct... It's not feasible to make any content that is totally bias free no matter how you spin it. I do appreciate how this video has brought people who would otherwise sit in their respective echo chambers into contact with one another, however.

[toastom]

THANK YOU for not only actually citing your sources but also not throwing out the wild assumptions and fearmongering that so many other political commentators do

[guitarkoala]

I absolutely love your channel. Unbiased, informative, and factual.