I just skipped through the Colbert one but I didn't hear her say nothing would change. Did I miss it or was it in reference to not unwinding any policies? She very specifically mentioned her 'opportunity economy' initiative which very clearly would be a change.

Trump has definitely done many things differently but the rhetoric wasn't any different in the campaign - immigration, transgender athletes, and the bigliest prosperity you have every seen.

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andsoitis 2 days ago | parent [-]

> I just skipped through the Colbert one but I didn't hear her say nothing would change.

At the 30s mark:

Colbert: “under a Harris administration, what would the changes be, and what would stay the same?”

Harris: “sure, we’ll obviously I’m not Joe Biden, and so, uhm, that would be one change, but also it is important to say with 28 days to go I’m not Donald Trump and so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like were I to be elected president, it is about frankly, I love the American people…”

So the only thing she said would change under Harrris administration is that she would be president, and then she deflected into aspirational outcomes with no specific ideas as to how to accomplish.

Further, The View interview was on 10/8/2024 and the Colbert interview one day later. So she even had a chance to originate a recover from the “no change” statement.

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cosmicgadget 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm not sure how you can hear/read/write that and conclude her answer was "nothing will change". To be sure, it is a very unpracticed attempt to give a political non-answer, but that's not the same as affirmatively saying "this will be four years of the same".

> aspirational outcomes with no specific ideas

That's typical for this interview format, no? I mean, you can be critical of the lack of information density but we're talking about her agenda relative to Biden's - and, to an extent, the status quo Trump created (inflation, diminished foreign influence) since that dictated much of what Biden could do.

	▲	andsoitis 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm not sure how you can hear/read/write that and conclude her answer was "nothing will change". I would concede that one cannot, from these two public statements, conclude with 100% confidence that she didn’t have plans for a change in direction. It is telling, however, that this is the only public information we have on the matter and nothing concrete from her or her campaign ever created a different framing or message (I searched but couldn’t find anything). I’m open to be proven wrong, and perhaps her autobiography will reveal OR it will confirm what voters interpreted. At the very least, the whole saga confirmed for me a lack of self-awareness, taking things for granted, and a certain arrogance.