Transcript: Kamala Harris could win -- and win big

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : Gideon RachmanOK, so that's Trump.
60% : And it's being promoted by Stephen Miller, who's a close adviser of Trump.
57% : Why should we believe that the federal government under Trump would suddenly be extremely efficacious and able to carry out this program?
53% : But on American conservatism, watching that convention, did you think it went well for the Republicans?Jacob HeilbrunnThe convention went well until Trump gave his acceptance speech, which turned into its own debacle.
52% : It would be interesting if, by putting all of this into print, that the Heritage Foundation has done a huge disservice to Trump.
51% : I mean, first of all, Trump and Vance.
47% : Gideon RachmanAgain, interesting point, because I was at the Republican convention in Milwaukee, and obviously one now applies discount to Trump, because we're so used to his kind of bizarre way of speaking.
46% : And to me, even though, you know, I do have my own deep reservations, to put it mildly, about Trump, the Republican party convention, like all these conventions, was just a kind of bizarre show.
44% : The sort of Reaganite optimism that Americans have been predisposed to is now embodied more by Harris than it is by Trump.
42% : They felt that Trump is a much stronger candidate for having survived the assassination attempt.
40% : She is going to hang Project 2025, which Trump is trying to distance himself from around his neck.
40% : Gideon RachmanTrump is really in a position to campaign on sex and morals?Jacob HeilbrunnI think actually, you know, in his rallies, if you watch him, no subject is taboo.
39% : They're gonna pound Trump on this because I think dozens of his former advisers from his first administration most, if not all of whom would serve in a new Trump administration, drafted this hideous document.
39% : I mean, again, people used to say, Trump, take him seriously, but not literally.
38% : so I might as well vote for Trump.
36% : After Trump read the remarks that were prepared for him, he went completely off the rails.
35% : And what Trump has exposed is that the existence of racism and, as well, antisemitism in the United States is much stronger than many people had presumed.
35% : But Trump thinks it's hypocrisy if someone claims to be better than he is, that all people are driven by the same impulses that he has or should share them.
34% : If anything, he's Trumpier than Trump, and he is steeped in these esoteric intellectual debates about the future of conservatism, whether it's on tariff policy or wiping out what they call the administrative state.
33% : Now it leads to another speculation that I have: were Trump to be elected, would this in fact be a smoothly functioning administration, or would it in fact be complete chaos?
28% : Gideon RachmanAnd gun control is an interesting one because one of the many things that struck me as bizarre of the Republican convention was that Trump has just been shot.
25% : If the Republicans stick with Trump, who is almost 80 years old, they now have the candidate who is elderly and clearly the loopy, if not mentally challenged.
23% : Trump is essentially sounding a dirge, a funeral march, arguing that the United States is going to hell in a handbasket.
19% : And he is bemused by it, because basically what Trump wants everyone to be is as loathsome as he is.
12% : Do you think that Trump may have made a mistake by choosing Vance?Jacob HeilbrunnI do, because he should have picked Nikki Haley or Elise Stefanik as his running mate.

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