Trump is targeting mostly far-right evangelicals who have a common vision on what they want the country to look like. He has a lot of energy when doing so, and because of how similar their interests are he could get away with all sorts of stuff and they would still vote for him.

Harris (and Democrats in general) is the only alternative mainstream candidate that everyone else has, and that "everyone else" consists of all sorts of people with conflicting interests: liberals, neoliberals, centrists, progressives, leftists, different religious groups or cultures, varying economic demographics, racial minorities, LGBTQ, and immigrants for instance. They're trying to appeal to all of them at once, but because they don't have a shared vision, nobody is happy and they get more scrutinized. To make at least some of them happy, they need to focus on certain groups and deprioritize the interests of other groups. However, once they do that then the groups they deprioritize get angry since they no longer have representation, and the groups that are still there remain skeptical because of the history of not working for their interests in the past.

The advantage that third parties like PSL have is that from the start, they're trying to appeal to a specific group of people with a common vision like Trump is instead of trying to play both sides with conflicting groups and making nobody happy. The problem (aside from the election duopoly bought out by corporations) is that they are a very small political minority so they have no real chance of winning the election without winning over people from other groups which is a challenge, especially when there are many more unknowns when it comes to progressing than there are when it comes to reverting to a previous state so there is more fragmentation due to those sort of disagreements.

Can we stop putting up articles stuck behind paywalls please?

This is a feature not a bug in a slaver's system.

It's not about being perfect. It's about not regressing to a 2004 republican. That doesn't appealt to Republicans who have moved further right and not to the left who refuse to budge.

It's willful ignorance to complain that she needs to be perfect when the people complaining are often specific about the things they care about that are being ignored.

And if those are being ignored you can be shocked they won't vote for her and you must admit she's clearly not courting those voters either.

This is either a non-issue cause she is going for exactly the voters she wants or she's willingly creating a flaw by deciding to court votes that won't be enough to win.
I don't get how this is still an argument. It's happening exactly as participants are making it happen.

Centrists look on Trump's base and wonder why they can't have a mindless cult too.

And yet you spineless fucking cowards didn't endorse, so your words mean nothing

Anyone who equates "not perfect" with supporting a genocide is not worth being read and taken seriously.

Democrats credentials for presidency - they are not Trump.

Edit - In any other election cycle this is a legitimate question.

What are you bringing to the table? What is your policy position?

For both the parties.

Just because this election only party is eligible to represent doesnt mean that the questions shouldn't be asked. Browbeating undecided voters for the questions is wrong and might give the result no one wants.

"You criticized her for not being good at X so she did X a bunch!"

Yeah but she's bad at it and it went really poorly for her and hurt her numbers.

These people are fucking idiots.

You go high, we go low

I'd love nothing more than to see her just spend an hour straight laying into Trump and Vance with f-bomb strewn attacks and continuous heavy-handed insults. I think she'd probably convert some Republicans if she did that.

Yes, that's the advantage of leading a cult.