Vice President Kamala Harris framed her probably upcoming struggle towards Donald Trump as one between a prosecutor and a legal — describing, from her new marketing campaign headquarters Monday, her expertise taking up “predators,” “fraudsters” and “cheaters.”
Trump across the similar time, in the meantime, took to Reality Social to name Harris “Dumb as a Rock.”
The feedback, each made as Trump and Harris started getting ready to tackle one another after President Joe Biden introduced he wouldn’t search reelection, supplied a glimpse into the 2 candidates’ anticipated traces of assault.
Trump, who throughout a rally in Michigan Saturday evening known as Harris “crazy,” “nuts,” and “Laughing Kamala,” is more likely to flip to advert hominem assaults towards her, whereas Harris is anticipated to lean into her expertise as a prosecutor — and Trump’s standing as a felon with wide-ranging authorized issues.
Trump on Monday fired off a publish expressing that he was bothered by the tv information protection he noticed of Harris and Biden.
“Wow, just watching the Fake News, and they’re doing their very best to turn the Worst President in the History of our Country into a ‘Brilliant and Heroic Leader’ (He was heroic because he quit!), and to turn “Dumb as a Rock” Kamala Harris from a completely failed and insignificant Vice President right into a future “Great” President,” Trump wrote on Reality Social on Monday. “No, it just doesn’t work that way!”
Trump’s insults of his opponent’s intelligence aren’t restricted to Harris. On the rally Saturday, Trump used the phrase “stupid” no fewer than 13 instances, greater than half of which have been in reference to Biden, who he additionally repeatedly known as “low IQ.” In the course of the Republican main, Trump nicknamed Nikki Haley “Birdbrain.”
Trump has lengthy deployed sexist remarks towards girls standing in his method, notably throughout his profitable 2016 presidential marketing campaign. On the time, he didn’t simply assault Hillary Clinton, the primary feminine nominee of a significant political celebration, however others like Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina and conservative journalist Megyn Kelly.
Throughout his marketing campaign towards Clinton, Trump made enjoyable of her for “shouting,” accused her of solely having “the woman card” to play, of not having “the look” to be president, and notably, of being a “nasty woman.” Extra not too long ago, Trump has launched private assaults towards Black Democratic girls like New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James and Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis.
His feedback about girls — typically introduced up by critics discussing his unpresidential “rhetoric” — have beforehand price him assist with suburban and school educated voters, regardless of his 2016 Electoral Faculty win. A redeployment of comparable verbal assaults towards Harris might spell Trump new issues in an election that, for months, he has led solidly.
Whereas Trump has been making an attempt out new nicknames and assault traces towards Harris, his marketing campaign and allies, in the meantime, have sought to tie Harris to unpopular Biden insurance policies, mainly the southern border.
“Same year — same people — same record of failure — same result,” Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote of Harris in a “State of Play Day 1” memo Monday evening, calling her “Border Czar Kamala Harris.”
Talking to marketing campaign employees in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday, Harris distilled her case towards Trump.
“I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris stated. “Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type.”
Harris continued by saying Trump “wants to take our country backwards, to a time before many of our fellow American had full freedoms and rights.”
