Opinion | Kamala Harris' closing argument reminded Americans democracy is worth protecting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : The House Freedom Caucus leader, Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., made headlines last week when he floated the idea of simply giving North Carolina's 16 electoral votes to Trump before the results are counted.
50% : Biden knew better than the commentators, and his decision to emphasize democracy fended off Trump in 2020 and the mythical Red Wave of 2022.
50% : But Harris also took the opportunity to press one of Trump's economic weak spots: the continued popularity of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
44% : One of Bannon's first acts as a free man was to call on Trump to prematurely declare victory next Tuesday in an effort to undermine public faith in vote counting efforts.
44% : "The high-priority focus on the economy in Harris' remarks is an acknowledgment that many swing voters still trust Trump more on economic issues.
40% : Harris hammered Trump on trade, pointing out that his tariff policy would amount to "a 20% national sales tax on everything you buy that is imported.
28% : After months of Trump's putting Democrats on the back foot about the economy, she took the fight to the GOP with a powerful explanation of how four years of a "Trump sales tax" would be disastrous for people's bank accounts.
22% : As a growing number of his former Cabinet officials and military leaders have made clear over the past weeks, Trump poses a clear and present danger to our country's most fundamental democratic safeguards.
18% : "That could be said as much about the fragile state of American democracy as about Harris' toss-up of a race against Trump.
15% : Harris' reasoning was that Trump would probably win the state anyway, so why bother with the inconvenience of democracy at all?

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