The impact of the vice president’s arrival as the Democratic nominee was pushed into the background by Trump’s ‘enthronement’ at his party’s convention. Many Republicans are advising their candidate to tone down the personal attacks on Harris: After all, Kamala is no Hillary Clinton.
200 million dollars and 170 thousand new volunteers later – Democrat Kamala Harris was able to ‘storage’ in a week – Republicans are beginning to fear what they failed to predict: Biden, although they say they expected Joe to be recalled, they did not expect – North American newspapers say – the Vice President The nomination will be influential.
Especially since everything happened the other way around: after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the Republican convention was supposed to be the result of the Republican candidate’s ‘inaction’. But the truth is that the news of Biden’s departure and the ‘image’ built around Kamala Harris managed to overcome the impact of the Republican convention. So, unusually, polls taken immediately after the convention show a drop in intent to vote for Trump. On the other hand, Kamala Harris is on the rise – despite the unnecessary ‘publicity stunt’ of the Obama couple’s phone number for Harris.
For now, the only soul Republicans can find against Harris is humiliation and more-or-less attempts at backbiting. But the problem is that Kamala Harris is not Hillary Clinton — the one who beat Biden in 2016. At the time, the Clintons easily ‘touched on’ the awkwardness of power circles and the ambiguous interdependence between the two countries. The Clintons and the Super Millionaires series. But Kamala Harris is anything but: she’s a belligerent ex-prosecutor who keeps a (for now) bulletproof resume — and is easily recognizable as someone who’s always on the side of justice, and on the side when needed. Justice of the poor.
“In the week since we started, Kamala Harris has raised $200 million, 66% of it from new donors. We’ve signed up 170,000 new volunteers,” Harris deputy campaign manager Rob Flaherty posted. Trump’s campaign surpassed the $264 million raised by Biden’s campaign and its Democratic allies in the same period in early July. Thandi said it raised $331 million in the second quarter, with $284.9 million in cash for the Trump campaign at the end of June, compared to $240 million for the Democratic campaign.
American newspapers were in no doubt that Harris brought added energy to a campaign that was increasingly leaning toward Donald Trump. It remains to be seen whether Kamala Harris can campaign around the heights of infamy she has achieved in just seven days.
On Trump’s side, the fight is with the usual weapons: in recent days, the Republican candidate has called Harris “crazy”, “insane” and “hard as a rock”, while social networks do their ‘dirty’ work, piling up racist, sexist and sexist messages. Attacks on Kamala Harris, the first woman and first black and South Asian woman to serve as the vice president of the United States, have intensified since she mustered the support needed to become the Democratic presidential nominee.
The vile racist and sexist attacks threaten to divert attention from a concerted Republican effort to focus on Harris’ policies, Reuters reports. Trump allies, including some members of the Black Americans for Trump Coalition, warn that discrediting Harris could harm Trump’s ability to reach black voters, a key demographic group in the election.
In interviews with nine Republican lawmakers and 11 Republican women who support Trump, eight said personal attacks on Harris should be avoided. While cautious in their comments and emphasizing their support for Trump, many expressed concern about the content of the attacks and pointed to the potential for backlash. “I think there’s a way to criticize her without going under her clothes,” said Ray Easley, host of a black conservative radio show in Chicago and a member of the coalition, as quoted by Reuters. “I will oppose Vice President Harris, not because of what she’s done, not because of who she is,” said Rep. Dusty Johnson, who chairs the Republican caucus, as quoted by the agency.
Trump has a long history of attacking political opponents, including black women in power, such as Fulton County District Attorney Fannie Willis, who sued him for alleged election interference in Georgia; and U.S. District Judge Tanya Sudkan, who was appointed to the federal case against Trump for trying to change the results of the 2020 election.
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