Maureen Dowd: It's a do-or-die moment for Kamala Harris. She needs to assert herself

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : When Harris linked her story about caring for her mother, dying of colon cancer, to her plan to get Medicare to cover some in-home care, she effectively offered a specific policy idea while revealing her vision for a kinder America than Trump has in mind.
43% : Even though it can get weird and duplicitous, Trump is better at riffing.
26% : When Trump says the government is not helping people in red locales, those affected might not apply for aid.
26% : It's disturbing that Harris can't get over the hump and outpace Trump.
17% : You know, Trump is just taunting us, having a rally at Madison Square Garden just like the Nazis did in 1939.
5% : As Harris grinds it out, trying to woo white women who are ambivalent about Trump, she does have one big advantage: Abortion rights are on the ballot and, as a woman, she can conjure the medieval nightmare that Trump and Vance threaten.
3% : Instead, he said, she should ask: "How dare JD Vance say with a straight face that [Donald] Trump is the father of Obamacare when Trump tried to kill it 50 times?"She should display pictures of right-wing judges who Trump could appoint to the supreme court, and ask if Americans are ready for an even more fanatical court.

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