Trump’s Campaign Against Harris Is Like Him: Old and Tired
Republicans are resorting to racist and sexist tactics that won’t stick like they used to with voters.
MAGA talking points are played out.
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The Republican approach to Vice President Kamala Harris is terrible, no good, absolutely awful and all over the place. Compared to Harris' upbeat, future-oriented campaign backed by the banging chorus of America’s greatest pop star, Donald Trump looks like a late-stage Elvis stuck in a doom loop.
While Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has urged his caucus to focus on policy and not personality, Trump and his allies will obviously ignore this good political advice over the next 100 days. This will damage his campaign — and the country — but it’s the only way Trump and his followers know how to run. Racism and sexism are very powerful forces in American politics and have often worked to great effect. Trump and his allies obviously know this, so they have trotted out their greatest hits of tropes that amplify the two, hoping to further hype up the MAGA base.
The problem? Voters have heard it all before. Specifically in 2008 (Barack Obama) and 2016 (Hillary Clinton).