Unpacking the rise of Kamala Harris that leaves a choice between 'lesser of two evils' - Catholic Herald

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : Trump looked on, amazed.
58% : Once neck and neck with Trump, and with a narrow edge in the dozen or so marginal states that hold the key to the electoral college that decides presidential elections, Trump slowly gained the lead.
35% : While Trump was on his best behaviour, keeping his grimaces and outbursts to a minimum, Biden, aged 81, could not disguise his mental and physical incapacity.
32% : "I really don't know what he said at the end of that sentence," Trump said.
31% : And, according to the Democratic Party's rulebook, it was up to him and him alone to decide whether to resign his candidacy and allow another Democrat to run against Trump.
31% : But Christians who applaud the outlawing of abortion and believe the Founding Fathers were wrong to have insisted in the Constitution on a strict division between church and state will probably vote for Trump.
23% : Biden eventually conceded that if the opinion polls showed he could not beat Trump, he would reconsider his position.
22% : Vance, like Trump, is opposed to same-sex marriage, gun control, legal abortion and US aid for Ukraine.
18% : "Democrats who feared losing to Trump if Biden held on to the nomination described trying to persuade him to give up as "like telling grandad he was no longer fit to drive and should hand over the car keys".
16% : After one particularly incomprehensible utterance from Biden, Trump summed up what the television audience of nearly 48 million were all thinking.
13% : Tim Walz, the former conservative 60-year-old plain-speaking governor of Minnesota, instantly changed the tenor of the attacks on Trump.
10% : While they had portrayed Trump as a vain, blustering, inarticulate, lying half-wit with a thin grasp of reality, who always put his personal interests before those of his party or the nation, Biden's abysmal debate performance had revealed that their own candidate enjoyed the same damning character traits as Trump.
9% : While Biden had tried to persuade voters that the return of Trump would invite dictatorial tendencies that threatened American democracy, Walz simply described the views of Trump and his Make America Great

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