Harris steps up negative attacks on Trump
by Amie Parnes - 10/20/24 6:00 AM ET
Vice President Harris is entering the “negative” phase of the campaign.
With polls exceptionally tight in the seven swing states likely to decide the presidential race, Democratic sources close to the vice president’s campaign say Harris is expected to step up her attacks against former President Trump in the final weeks of the campaign.
“They are definitely heightening the contrast,” said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons, who served as Harris’s communications director until last year.
“Democrats believe and have evidence that Donald Trump is a threat and there are voters that believe Donald Trump is a threat to their way of life. So the more you make him a threat, the more likely it is to get those voters to support Harris,” he added.
Simmons and other Democratic strategists and operatives point to the closing months of the 2022 midterms, when Democrats successfully closed that cycle making the threat to Democracy — along with other issues like abortion — among their top issues.
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