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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Corsi you’ve mentioned it multiple times now and seem to dislike when Harris or Walz repeat any kind of talking point or slogan. Are you expecting them to come out with a fresh set every time? I mean we all know how politics work right and repeating a message is kind of the name of the game.
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Slogans are totally fine - the crowd knows what to chant. In this case, "we're not going back" seems to be the choice. That should be worked into just about every speech.
But the name of the game now is authenticity. If you stick the same speech up on the teleprompter, word for word, and deliver it with more or less the same cadence for weeks, you will sound inauthentic. So you have to keep the message, keep the lines that work, but deliver them differently and in new contexts in order to keep it fresh. 30 years ago this wasn't necessary because the only way someone at your event in Detroit on Wednesday would have heard you use these lines in Philadelphia on Monday was if they drove across two states. Now a lot of people have seen this speech before you give it. Just for example, IMO, the "I know Donald Trump's type" bit has served its purpose and needs to be dropped - but that doesn't mean you can't come up with a new sound bite that serves the same purpose in terms of sending the "prosecutor versus convict" message.
The minimum, if you're delivering essentially the same speech, is to do it in a manner that makes it seem more like you're reading from cue cards with bullets on them than off a teleprompter. Walz gets this. He's given the same speech 4 times now, effectively, but he says more or less the same things in different sentences, throws in some off-script comments, leaves a line out here or there, and rearranges the order of various parts. As a result it doesn't sound like a recording. This was one of the things that made Obama such a great speaker.