Opinion: This month, Harris and O’Rourke will participate in town halls. They come at a critical time for both.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala D. Harris speaks at a town hall for the American Federation of Teachers in Detroit May 6. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 14 at 10:15 AM This month, Sen. Kamala D. Harris and Beto O’Rourke will participate in town halls. They come at a critical time for both.
O’Rourke has yet to do a cable TV network town hall, so this will be a first for him in prime time. He has embarked on a reset, with more national TV interviews and more substance. Like Harris, he’s also fallen well back in the pack. This will be an opportunity to reintroduce himself to voters who have a fuzzy idea of who he is, introduce himself to voters who haven’t been paying much attention, and begin to carve out a distinct identity in a crowded race.
Harris has an advantage on foreign policy over many of the contenders because she sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee. She should be expected to do more than one-liners and banalities . She’d do herself some good, and stand out from the crowd, in articulating even one coherent, informed foreign policy idea. She might be one of the few able to do it.
Fortunately, when he has spoken about policy, he’s not run to the far left. Now he needs to flesh out his ideas:
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