Both Trump and Harris are trying to make a very overt shift to the middle to appeal to swing voters, as is par for the course.
It is telling how different their pitches are
Kamala went onto a scripted pretaped interview with friendly hosts, the most softball environment possible, and still came out looking like a flip flopper because she tried to take ambiguous policy positions opposed to her previous policy positions. She's been explicitly against fracking and private health insurance and she explicitly said she would give free healthcare to illegal aliens and decriminalize illegal crossings. Dana Bash gave her every opportunity to peddle any spin she wanted and she went with absolute fucking gobbledeegook word salad like she has infamously done on the campaign trail;
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I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems
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I believe there should be consequence. We have laws that have to be followed and enforced that address and deal with people who cross our border illegally. And there should be consequence.
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The most important and most significant aspect of my policy perspective and decisions is my values have not changed. You mentioned the Green New Deal. I have always believed and I have worked on it, that the climate crisis is real, that it is an urgent matter to which we should apply metrics that include holding ourselves to deadlines around time.
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So that is the reality of it, and four years of being vice president, I’ll tell you, one of the — the — the aspects to your point is traveling the country extensively. I mean, I’m here in Georgia, I think somebody told me 17 times since I’ve been vice president in Georgia alone. I believe it is important to build consensus, and it is important to — to — to find a common place of understanding of where we can actually solve problems.
Jesus at least when Mitt Romney flip flopped he took a firm policy position even if it was opposed to the one he previously voted for. We still don't know where Kamala stands on the issues, only that she has flip flopped from either side of the issue to the other side and won't get specific.
Meanwhile Donald Trump took the most bull-in-a-china shop fashion to appealing to centrists and just did a bold policy proposal that completely overthrows the position held by a bunch of his hard right supporters, which is actually a recurring trend with Trump making bargains. When Trump was trying to strike an immigration deal, he offered amnesty and a pathway to citizenship (!) without any euphemisms or pretense, just put it on the table. Now he's saying the government should fund IVF, fuck the religious nuts who think its pseudoabortion, oh and now he's explicitly against a national abortion ban
and the florida 6 week window, so he's outflanking Ron DeSantis from the left once again, the man is an absolute menace for his total lack of sincere ideology and juking left to right on a whim.