No doubt that Vice President Harris can fit as President Harris…..

After schooling Donald Trump in the debate?

Few in America , or abroad , can really doubt that she has the chops to move up to the President of the United States of America……

 

If one of Donald Trump’s goals during Tuesday’s debate was to show that Kamala Harris would be a weak world leader, he failed.

She managed, after all, to hold her own against him while navigating topics unusually tricky for a Biden administration official, such as the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the politically dicey Israel-Hamas war. On the second, Harris repeatedly stressed the need for a two-state solution, for instance — showing her support for Palestinians while also insisting she’ll defend Israel.

Foreign officials watching the Philadelphia faceoff weren’t expecting — and didn’t get — many policy specifics from either candidate. But many of those I spoke to said they wanted to see if Harris could stand up to a man who can be a bully, especially toward women, and rattle his political opponents….

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By the time the debate was over, several foreign officials from both U.S. allies and more neutral countries told me they felt more confident that Harris could handle the tricky personalities she’d encounter while in the world’s most powerful job.

“Composed, authoritative, and presidential,” one European diplomat raved.

“She even managed to laugh at him,” a senior European official marveled.

Her ability to manage Trump offered assurance that she could navigate tough personal relationships. Given that international relations often come down to the nature of personal relations, this matters….

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Still, Harris’ performance reminded me a bit of a moment in one of the 2008 presidential debates between John McCain and Barack Obama.

McCain, of course, had a long track record of standing up to tyrants; he’d spent years as a prisoner of war during Vietnam. But the younger, less experienced Obama tried to show that he, too, was no shrinking violet — especially when it came to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

When Obama said, “We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda,” on the debate stage that night, I suddenly could see him running the show in the Situation Room.

To much of the world, Harris made a strong case Tuesday that she has the same potential…..

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