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This week has seen more polls narrow in Kamala Harris's favour. Her campaign is off to a strong start—not least in her public appearances 🇺🇸📢 Whether you're a presidential candidate or not, successful speeches and media interviews repeat the same elements: - Pauses: adding emphasis and drama to key lines. They help speakers control their pace and rhythm - Memorable soundbites: keeping audiences engaged, cutting through distractions, and giving a single appearance longevity. 'I know Donald Trump's type’ has been clipped and reused by broadcasters around the world, for days after Harris's speech - Personalisation: successful speakers make sure they understand their audience, so they can adapt what they say to their interests and concerns - Bridging: not just about avoiding difficult questions, but linking thoughts and helping audience follow a conversation or argument - Rule of 3: using three statements for each point to give speeches structure and punch. Our media training covers public speaking as well as broadcast interviews. Get in touch if you'd like to know more: [email protected] #communications #campaigning #mediatraining #publicspeaking

If joe biden, his wife and advisors all believe he is TOO CONFUSED, FORGETFUL, or otherwise unable to handle simple debates with Pres. Trump, then why would anyone with an IQ consider joe able to run the USA? Perhaps joe photographed asleep during day time meetings with foreign leaders might be a clue. Or it might be the DOJ used the excuse for not charging joe for mishandling docs was his being senile? Maybe it's because Jill has to lead joe off press events? It's simple: why won't the clearly corrupt joe biden handle a simple debate, on live TV with competent, NON MSM interviewers who don't give joe the questions in advance. Why not demand CEO's of all the MSM explain why they aren't demanding at least two televised presidential debates.

A three minute read or listen from the award winning journalist Chris Hedges "The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian right have built cult followings of their own. These Christian fascists embraced magical thinking, attacked their enemies as agents of Satan and denounced reality-based science and journalism long before Trump did. Cults are a product of social decay and despair, and our decay and despair are expanding, soon to explode in another financial crisis. The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems are embodied in him, are futile. The smug, self-righteousness of this crusade against Trump only contributes to the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. This crusade attempts to reduce a social, economic and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It is accompanied by a refusal to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy. This collusion with the forces of corporate oppression, which have impoverished the working class, fostered endless war, militarized our police, created the largest prison system in the world, licensed corporations to exploit the most vulnerable and transferred wealth upwards into the hands of a billionaire class, neuters the press, Trump's critics and the Democratic Party. Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump. Our democratic institutions, including the legislative bodies, the courts and the media, are hostage to corporate power. They are no longer democratic. We must, like resistance movements of the past, engage in acts of sustained mass civil disobedience, especially strikes, and non-cooperation. By turning our ire on the corporate state, rather than Trump, we name the true sources of power and abuse. We expose the absurdity of blaming our demise on demonized groups such as undocumented workers, Muslims, African-Americans, Latinos, liberals, feminists, gays and others. We give people an alternative to a bankrupt Democratic Party — whose presidential candidate is in clear cognitive decline — that is a full partner in corporate oppression and cannot be rehabilitated. We make possible the restoration of an open society. If we fail to embrace this resistance, which alone has the ability to destroy cult leaders, we will continue the march toward tyranny." https://lnkd.in/ew-5_fDh

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For those reading me from around the world, I need your prayers. As you can see, I just lost, as usual, a few followers for also sharing Kamala Harris's rally. People here do not want fairness and balance. They do not want the truth. They claim they want the truth, but it's all nonsense. They want propaganda from one side. They want support and propaganda on one side. The level of dishonesty and hypocrisy here is outstanding. You can read many accounts in the United States; you will rarely find an account like mine; that's why they connive and go behind the scenes to throttle my account. The truth here is virtually nonexistent when it comes to journalism and narratives. In a way, that's how the United States operates. The truth is classified but the lie is not. That's why they would jail Julian Assange for publishing 'classified information,' a code word for the truth, and reward mainstream media for publishing propaganda. If you want to survive here, you must publish lies or propaganda from one side only. You cannot cover all rallies because one side would say, 'you know Donald Trump just spews lies and hate and racism,' and the other side would say, 'Kamala Harris is just about lies and wokeness.' But here is the thing: someone will become President. It might be Trump or Harris unless something dramatic happens. And it's important to bring to my readers what they are saying, both. Remember, none of those candidates is paying me, and the people who unfollow me do not pay me either. I owe no allegiance to any of them and work for none of them. I do my job and damn the consequences. If you want to unfollow me because I am fair and balanced, you're free to do so; it won't change anything.

In a political landscape where standing out is crucial, one former leader has taken an unconventional approach that's left strategists scrambling and opponents bewildered. Key takeaways from this unprecedented campaign event: • Unorthodox campaign strategies can generate massive attention • The line between politics and entertainment continues to blur • Reaction management is crucial in high-stakes public relations As professionals, we must ask: How do we navigate a world where shock value often trumps substance? How can we maintain credibility while still capturing public attention? Share your thoughts: Have you ever had to manage an unconventional PR situation? What strategies worked for you? Read the full story and join the discussion: https://shorturl.at/hDZw7 #PoliticalStrategy #CampaignInnovation #PRCrisisManagement

I am not a big CNN fan. This interview, https://lnkd.in/gFccDt7C, however, was done exceptionally well with a prior Trump official, an adviser to Vice President Mike Pence. I think communication from a credible and knowledgeable source should be sent to everyone currently supporting Trump. Factual data such as this interview continually sent to MAGA followers and other media reports verifying information that refutes Trump's lies begins to instill doubt about Trump's credibility. Often, information comes from people affiliated with Trump who may not have bought into the cult rhetoric. These people reach cult members who may be harboring doubts. Credible sources who have held close positions within the Trump administration and had personal access to his comments and directives can be the most influential people in helping cult members overcome the grip of undue influence. Once that doubt is seeded, the more information from outside the cult is imparted to cult members, the better the chances of those cult members seeing the light and leaving the cult. However, it takes tenacity and persistence because Cult leaders educate members to resist factual data, "They are never-Trumpers" they are members of the swamp." You should never judge cult members if you want to help them. You must consider them as victims and feel yourself as someone who can help them heal. Accurate and verifiable information presented by credible sources is what made me question my religious cult leader. Once the information was presented in a way I couldn't deny, I began seeking more information. Once this turn is made, the vast majority of cult members will leave the cult, even if it means losing family and friends. Then, those members become advocates for continuing to help other cult members recognize the truth about their cult leader and themselves as cult members. It requires caring, empathy, compassion, nurturing, and much patience. Seek help if you know someone who you believe is in a cult, and you would like to help them escape a cult. https://lnkd.in/gdhgju32 Dr. Steven Hassan (Cult Expert) https://freedomofmind.com/.

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