Open speech

The strategy for the upcoming Harris campaign seems to be to keep her from speaking off the cuff. She does much better than Biden when reading from the prompter but drifts away while speaking extemporaneously. The next part will be to speak only about the future and to avoid the past. The two main reasons for this is that four years ago most feel things were better and Harris is changing her past positions on important issues. One major obstacle standing in the way is the promised debate and there may well be a move to cancel the debate. How people have different ways of public speaking was best illustrated in comparing Trump vs Obama. Obama measured every word pausing between sentences and often times between words. He was mentally evaluating his words as if to make sure he didn't say anything that might be controversial. This was much like a normal politician. Then along came Trump who just says whatever comes to mind and if he doesn't say it he puts in out on X. While this is very dangerous for a politician it is one of the things that his supporters like. While you can never be sure what Obama is thinking you can read Trump like an open book. The press lies in wait each day to find the latest unexpected thing that Trump might say and then they have the news of the day. This is the main reason why Trump seems to control the news cycle. This can hurt his campaign since the press will not be taking about the changes in policy that could be showing up each day in the Harris group. It will be a test to see how much the average voter pays attention to policy.