The focus of event was national security, but he also criticized his predecessor Barack Obama as “nasty” for comments made the night before at the Democratic National Convention.
While Trump has acknowledged the race is closer than before Biden dropped out, his aides believe that Harris remains relatively unknown and that efforts to highlight her past statements and the positions she took in previous races will turn off swing voters after her honeymoon period ends.
Harris “relatively unknown?” Really? And it’s been exactly one month since Biden stepped down. In the modern 24 hour news cycle, that’s an eternity of a “honeymoon period.”
Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).
Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.
I don’t think you can say the vice president is “unknown.” Everyone has a general sense of her stances on things. It would be hard for her not to be a better unscripted speaker than Trump.
She’ll be better unscripted but also subjected to relatively massive judgement. There’s pretty much nothing trump could say that would hurt him. There’s a lot Harris could say that would hurt her.
Harris “relatively unknown?” Really? And it’s been exactly one month since Biden stepped down. In the modern 24 hour news cycle, that’s an eternity of a “honeymoon period.”
To be fair, she is relatively unknown.
Especially when you consider low information voters (which I expect have similar knowledge to high information voters from other countries).
Her honeymoon period will end as soon as she sits down and does a few serious and unscripted interviews about policy, which she has managed to avoid so far. At the moment it’s pure vibes, but at some point you need to get into the business of explaining what you would do and being challenged on it. That will generate lots of attack angles and media stories, both good and bad.
I don’t think you can say the vice president is “unknown.” Everyone has a general sense of her stances on things. It would be hard for her not to be a better unscripted speaker than Trump.
She’ll be better unscripted but also subjected to relatively massive judgement. There’s pretty much nothing trump could say that would hurt him. There’s a lot Harris could say that would hurt her.
I mean, she could pull a Trump and be like, “I have really big plans. I can’t discuss them until I’m in office, but let me tell you… Big plans.”