Leading European media outlets have been swooning over Kamala Harris ever since she emerged as the presidential nominee at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Fearful of Donald Trump’s return to the Presidency, they have pinned all their hopes on his Democratic rival.
Germany’s Rheinische Post called Harris “a beacon of hope in American politics.”
“At the Democratic Party Convention, Kamala Harris transitioned from being the deputy to an unpopular president to the beacon of hope with star power,” the newspaper wrote. “At the finale of the party conference, a strong woman stood before the nation who left no doubt that she could become the first Madame President in the history of the USA.’
The country’s woke-infested media is excited to see the ‘first black female presidential nominee.’ German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau called the Kamala Harris-led Democratic Party “the party of diversity.”
German media commentators are acting as if they were out campaigning for Harris. “Nobody should sit back and relax; all votes must be fought for, won and held if we are to prevail in preventing Donald Trump and the complete destruction of democratic and social structures in November,” leading German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung commented August 23.
Harris could win hands down if elections were to take place in Germany, the media outlets claim touting the popularity of the Democratic candidate. “The U.S’ election is also a dominant topic in Germany,” Der Stern weekly magazine claimed July 30. “79% of Germans would choose Kamala Harris.”
European media outlets are treating her like a new icon. “Harris is redefining feminism and femininity in politics,” the leading French newspaper Le Monde claimed August 27.
Others predict easy victory for the Harris-Walz ticket. “The Kamala Harris campaign’s biggest fear is that things are going too well, ” Spain’s El Mundo newspaper boasted. “In the span of exactly a month, the Democratic Party has gone from trailing the Republicans in six of the seven swing states — and tied in the other — to leading in five or six, depending on the polls.”
The media on the other side of the Atlantic is busy polishing Harris’s meager accomplishments. “Harris focused on several key initiatives while in the White House, and she was instrumental in some of the Biden administration’s most touted accomplishments,” the BBC reported last week.
Guardian columnist Emma Brockes had ‘tears of joy ‘in her eyes to see Kamala at the helm of the Democrats. “Joe cried, Kamala cried and so did I. Can this be the Democrats putting on a better show than Trump ever did?” she asked.
Beneath all this jubilation and triumphalism in the wake of Kamala’s nomination, there is a lurking fear of Trump’s return to the White House.
The European establishment fears that Trump’s win in November could force them to start paying their own defense bills as the Ukraine war drags on for more than two years. “Europe should prepare to shoulder a significant financial burden for the war in Ukraine and ready itself for tension with the US over relations with China if Donald Trump wins the race for the White House in November,” former Swedish prime minister, Carl Bildt, said according to the Euronews TV channel on Thursday.
[Excerpts from European news reports translated by the author]
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