In a Monday name with reporters, Trump spokesman Jason Miller revealed a few of Trump’s technique for Tuesday’s debate. As is likely to be anticipated, the important thing technique is: lie.
In keeping with Miller, Trump’s massive pitch isn’t simply to tie Democratic nominee Kamala Harris to the insurance policies carried out beneath President Joe Biden. It’s not even to counsel that Harris has been advising Biden on these insurance policies. As a substitute, Trump intends to push the concept that Harris has been secretly working the federal government all alongside; that that is really the “Harris/Biden administration.”
It’s a technique which will attraction to Trump’s base, who’re already massive believers in secret governments, and is the main focus of at the very least one new Trump advert. But it surely’s more likely to go away most Individuals scratching their heads.
And if Trump desires to combat on this floor, count on Harris to be very ready.
The concept that Trump would attempt to tie Harris to the actions of the Biden administration isn’t precisely stunning. Trump has been repeating that declare in rallies and speeches. Trump has additionally made claims about Harris being chargeable for immigration points as a result of she was “the border czar.” She wasn’t. And isn’t.
However the concept that Harris “owns” points from the Afghanistan withdrawal to the financial system as a result of she was in some way pulling Biden’s strings takes Trump’s claims to a brand new stage.
In the meantime, Miller was additionally pleased to pile on one of many different lies that Trump has been making: that Harris is “very stupid” and that debate prep is simply an excessive amount of for her.
“These binders of stats and details,” Miller advised reporters on the Monday name. “She has no idea what any of this is. No idea whatsoever.”
Miller additionally made it clear that Trump intends to hit Harris over an announcement made throughout her most up-to-date interview that “her values haven’t changed.” Republicans wish to use that assertion as a pretense that Harris nonetheless owns each coverage she ever held and that any change in her coverage is hypocrisy. However values and coverage are usually not the identical factor. Harris is more likely to make that clear.
Harris has lately moved away from Biden, together with variations on tax insurance policies. The debate may supply her an opportunity to attract extra of a line between her proposed insurance policies and people of Biden, whereas nonetheless permitting Harris to voice her satisfaction over the accomplishments of the final 4 years.
A latest The New York Instances ballot exhibits voters wanting a change from Biden’s insurance policies and nonetheless trusting Trump extra on points associated to the financial system. That may appear shocking contemplating the mess Trump manufactured from all the things in his last 12 months. But it surely’s not all that stunning contemplating how the media has spent years underplaying each bit of excellent information and trumpeting issues about a recession that by no means arrived.
If Trump actually pushes Harris about being answerable for the Biden administration, she may simply shock him … and brag about it.
As Bloomberg experiences, anybody linked to the accomplishments of this administration has many sources of satisfaction: file family wealth, file well being care protection, a file run of job creation, and a trillion {dollars} invested in transferring America to renewable vitality sources.
In the meantime, investments made potential by the Infrastructure Act and Inflation Discount Act are creating jobs and rising the financial system in so many purple districts that Republicans are discovering it exhausting to collect assist to maneuver away from these “Harris/Biden” insurance policies.
Trump will spend the evening attempting responsible Harris for the “failures” of the Biden administration. However practically 4 years in, these failures appear to be extra jobs, extra wealth, extra well being care, extra vitality, and a greater surroundings. Harris is definitely going to clarify these areas the place she differs from Biden. But when Trump insists that she owns these accomplishments, it’s unlikely she’s going to argue too exhausting. Then once more, with Trump, you by no means know really what to anticipate.
