In their final playgrounds, Donald Trump spent the week to support doubts about the election results, while Kamala Harris casts Trump as a threat to democracy. With the election day less than a week, members of the committee Washington Week with the Atlantic Ocean He discussed one of the closest presidential races in memory, and what the elections can mean for the future of democratic and republican parties.
Since 2015, the Republican Party reached multiple points when they could have wandered and took a position against Trump, explained by Mcai Copens last night. But “they could not mobilize teamwork.” As a result, Trump managed to reshape the Republican Party to one “he became the worship of the personality as almost every elected official immerses his party.”
Where Republicans are still from here an open question, follow Coppins. “The party [Trump] He has changed his image that will not change overnight, regardless of what is happening next week. “
Meanwhile, Harris was running a care campaign carefully. “If this unbearable campaign, which started only four months ago, is working mainly, what does it mean for the future of the Democratic Party?” Jeffrey Goldberg asked the committee members. According to Eugene Daniels, unlike the ideological aspects of Harris’s 2019 campaign, which partially felt, the distress, “the person you are watching now and the policies you are talking about … this is the one who is Kamala Harris” and “this is what you want to judge.”
If elected, Harris may also have to face the Republican -controlled Congress room. This means that she “will be forced to judge as average,” Daniels continued. “It will have to bend and try to settle in ways that” San Francisco Liberal “will not want to” San Francisco Liberal “.
Join the editor -in -chief Atlantic OceanJeffrey Goldberg, to discuss this and more: Peter Baker, the main correspondent of the White House New York Times; McCai Copens, employee writer Atlantic Ocean; Eugene Daniels, White House correspondent in Politico; And Vivian Salama, a correspondent for national policy in Wall Street Magazine.
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