The Perils of the Good-Enough Candidate

Julian Zelizer : I have no predictions for what will happen, nor do I know what will swing this election.

On immigration, she chose to mostly repeat the same talking point about Trump ’s actions to tank the bipartisan border bill, he says.

On Tuesday , millions of Americans will vote for Kamala Harris because they see Trump as a direct threat to the future of the country, Zelizer says.

Julian Zelizer : People with normal media-consumption habits, we are told, are actually very enthusiastic about Harris .

Zelizer says she did what she was supposed to do: look like a credible candidate and deliver talking points.

He says she has been a politician in my life since I moved to San Francisco in the two-thousands , and I've always been struck by how she never really seems to be able to just plant her feet and directly answer a question.

Liberal loyalists have been on my mind quite a bit this election season , in part because I wonder whether the collective delusion and gritty enthusiasm it has taken to prop up an emergency candidate is sustainable.

That said, I do not believe that Trump will unleash the entirety of Project 2025 on the American public if he’s elected.

What seems far more likely is that a second Trump Presidency would lead to unprecedented theft from public programs like Social Security and Medicare .