Harris’ flip-flops small potatoes compared to Trump’s tawdry rap sheet

For those holding back from supporting Kamala Harris because they don’t know what she stands for, here is the question: what more do American voters have to know about the former president before deciding it would be hard to find a worse candidate to run the world’s greatest democracy than Donald Trump?

Kamala Harris, left, and Donald Trump took part in a televised debate last week, watched by 67.1 million people. Kamala came out the champ, and Trump, the chump, writes Michael Harris, although that was not the just the decision of most news agencies, including The Washington Post and The New York Times. Photographs courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/Flickr and Gage Skidmore/Flickr

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

September 16, 2024

HALIFAX—Thanks to Donald Trump, the U.S. presidential election is turning into comedy in hot pursuit of farce.

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