Harris changes tactics and focuses the final phase of the campaign on attacking Trump

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2024-10-24 18:42:00

WashingtonOne key to the euphoria Kamala Harris generated when she replaced Joe Biden was her campaign’s ability to create a narrative. After months with a Biden who based his speech on fear of Donald Trump, on a defensive attitude towards the agenda-setting GOP, Harris provided a constructive account that looks to the future. The space he dedicated to the tycoon was minimal. Now, in the final stretch, and with very tight polls, Harris repeats Biden’s tactic: attack Trump and put him at the center of her speech.

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In a forum with undecided voters hosted by CNN, Harris called Trump a “fascist” and said she believes he is a danger to democracy. The Democratic candidate cited statements from John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff when he was president, who explained that the former president praised Hitler while in office and said he needed “generals like Hitler.” Kelly explained this to the The New York Times I The Atlantic this Tuesday, where he also assured that the tycoon puts personal loyalty before the Constitution.

Before sitting on the CNN set, Harris also warned that the former Republican president is increasingly “deranged” and “unstable” and that “it is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that he would invoke Adolf Hitler.” “He said this [que li cal un exèrcit com el de Hitler] because he does not want an army faithful to the Constitution, but an army faithful to him personally. Obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution,” Harris said, referring to the fact that if Trump wins the election, he will also become the commander in chief of the American nation. army

The Democratic candidate also recalled how Trump has been using the label “internal enemy” for weeks to refer to citizens who do not support him. The first time he used this concept was at the Butler (Pennsylvania) rally last October 5, where the Republican implied, more explicitly than ever, that his political rivals could be behind the two assassination attempts he suffered. .

The words that Harris has used in the last few hours are reminiscent of when Biden also attacked Trump, calling him a “dictator”. However, it was Trump himself who said that he would be “a dictator from day one” if he assumed the presidency if he won the election. Harris’ greater aggressiveness towards Trump represents a change in tactics compared to the new attack perspective established by the Chicago Democrats: that of reducing the tycoon to an egomaniac who thinks only of him.

It is significant how the space that Harris is giving to Trump has increased in recent weeks. During his first interview as a presidential candidate, he dismissed a question about his rival’s attacks with a “Next question, please.” Now he is shining a spotlight on the danger the GOP would pose to democracy if he came to power.

The new turning point does not seem to be a strategy of the vice president alone, but of the entire Democratic Party. Last week, during a rally in Arizona, a key state for Trump, former President Barack Obama focused much of his speech on the Republican and upped the ante in his attacks: “We don’t need to see how much a Donald Older, crazier Trump seems unrestricted.”

Mud, Trump’s favorite terrain

One of Biden’s problems, beyond his shortcomings and his age, was precisely that his campaign was driven exclusively by the fear of a possible return of Trump. Democrats corrected the situation with Harris by focusing on joy and hope, two constructive emotions that tend to mobilize more votes, University of Delaware psychology professor David Redlawsk told ARA. The decision to descend into the mud and increase personal attacks against Trump is an attempt by Democrats to try to end up overshadowing the undecided votes – if there are still any – who they have failed to convince with the promise of a new chapter for The Society American to end polarization.

So far, entering the terrain of personal attacks and recriminations has ended up favoring Trump, one way or another, especially because it means following his game of escalating tension. Even if it is true that Harris enters the melee with the tycoon from a very different position compared to Biden: the Democrat assures that she has a program to carry forward if she reaches the presidency, in addition to stopping the former Republican president

Meanwhile, in recent weeks the tycoon has done nothing but prepare the ground to be able to declare a new alleged case of electoral fraud in view of November 5th. In Butler, Republicans once again made calls to “protect the vote” and since then figures close to the tycoon, such as billionaire Elon Musk, have done nothing but give voice to conspiracy theories about illegal immigrants registering to vote and more .

In Arizona, just as they implement a sweeping transparency policy to prevent a repeat of the 2020 riots, police arrested a man Wednesday for firing three shots into a Democratic Party campaign office in Phoenix. There were no injuries or deaths and the man has already been arrested on terrorism charges. They found 120 weapons in his home and authorities believe the individual was “preparing to commit a mass attack.”

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