{"id":20241,"date":"2024-10-02T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/?p=20241"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T03:56:02","slug":"to-most-americans-walz-won-the-debate-due-to-believability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/kermitzarleyblog\/2024\/10\/to-most-americans-walz-won-the-debate-due-to-believability\/","title":{"rendered":"To Most Americans, Walz Won the Debate Due to Believability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Tim Walz-2024; CREDIT: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Yesterday, I posted, \u201cTim Walz Ruled!\u201d I meant that in the vice presidential debate last night between Democrat Kamala Harris\u2019 running mate Tim Walz and Republican Donald Trump\u2019s running mate J. D. Vance, for most Americans watching it Walz won. How so? Morality was on the line, and Walz proved more moral than Vance.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what most expert analysts have been saying ever since, thus in the past 24 hours. Most of them claim Vance won the debate because they are looking mostly for one thing: who is the better debater. But that is not what the American public is looking for.<\/p>\n

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J. D. Vance-2024; CREDIT: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People are looking for the man who sounds the most believable, the man who sounds the most honest, the man who they can trust, and that was Walz. And I would add to this\u2014that Walz actually was more convincing than Vance, thus more persuasive. The bottom line is, who was the most persuasive in his arguments and thereby won the debate? That is not decided alone by words, but how words are spoken. I think Walz came across much better on this score, thereby revealing his sincerity. And as I said in yesterday\u2019s post, Walz made a huge impression on me that he was speaking so directly to his listeners with conviction.<\/p>\n

Vance outright lied many times, but Walz did not. This is extremely important to most voters. Most Americans believe that Donald Trump lies a lot. So, Vance was on the line for this. And what Vance demonstrated on the stage last night was that he is somewhat of another liar like Trump. How so?<\/p>\n

Vance constantly blamed Harris for what Joe Biden has done as president. In doing so, Vance tried to deceive listeners into making Harris responsible for what Biden has done. A high school kid who has taken a course on political science could have spotted that deception. According to our system of government, the vice president is merely at \u201cthe beck and call\u201d of the president. As President Harry Truman famously uttered at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House, \u201cThe buck stops here.\u201d Whatever Vance was accusing Harris about was what Joe Biden did, not Harris. Therefore, this constant refrain from Vance showed that he can\u2019t be trusted.<\/p>\n

But the main highlight of last night\u2019s debate, as I also said in my post, was that when Walz asked Vance point blank if Trump lost the 2020 election, he would not answer. Instead, he said, \u201cI\u2019m focused on the future.\u201d\u00a0 Walz then replied immediately, \u201cThat\u2019s a damning non-answer!\u201d You\u2019re darn right Mr. Walz. And the Harris campaign, in less than 24 hours, has already got TV ads showing that exchange. It\u2019s a big winner.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>That is a huge red flag that should wake up slumbering America. Why do I say \u201cslumbering\u201d? That\u2019s what America has been for years for putting Donald Trump in the White House. As I have said many times on my blog and in my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall<\/em><\/a>, Donald Trump is the biggest liar I have ever seen in my life!<\/p>\n

What I am saying is supported by branding expert Marina Byezhanova, co-founder of a personal-branding agency and reported today in Newsweek<\/em>\u2018s article, \u201cJD Vance\u2019s \u2018Self-Promotion Backfired\u2019 in VP Debate: Branding Expert<\/a>.\u201d She says Walz\u2019 brand \u201cshone significantly better,\u201d and \u201cVance\u2019s propensity to self-market backfired against him and his brand in this specific context.\u201d She concluded that Walz was \u201cthe clear winner of the personal branding game.\u201d The main thing about brand is believability.<\/p>\n

If Donald Trump gets in the White House again, he will be way more dangerous than before. He\u2019ll be like a fox in a hen house as he does what he has been saying on the campaign trail repeatedly the last several weeks that he will do as president\u2014carry out \u201crevenge\u201d and \u201cretribution\u201d by jailing his political opponents. Rather than Make America Great Again, Donald Trump will bring this country way, way down.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I posted, \u201cTim Walz Ruled!\u201d I meant that in the vice presidential debate last night between Democrat Kamala Harris\u2019 running mate Tim Walz and Republican Donald Trump\u2019s running mate J. D. Vance, for most Americans watching it Walz won. How so? Morality was on the line, and Walz proved more moral than Vance. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1477,"featured_media":20232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2660],"tags":[734,8058,5513,8217,8214],"class_list":["post-20241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-j-d-vance","tag-kamala-harris","tag-political-branding","tag-tim-walz"],"yoast_head":"\nTo Most Americans, Walz Won the Debate Due to Believability<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yesterday, I posted, "Tim Walz Ruled!" 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