Trump struggles to recalibrate his strategy now that he’s campaigning against Harris

[mystery-ak]

Trump struggles to recalibrate his strategy now that he’s campaigning against Harris
By
Ross O'Keefe
August 10, 2024 2:10 pm

Former President Donald Trump‘s campaign has reeled since President Joe Biden’s exclusion from the presidential race during a time in which they appeared to be headed to a confident victory.

While it seemed Trump might change his campaign strategy after his July 13 assassination attempt and be a more amicable candidate, he quickly shifted back to familiar tactics and appeared to be as hostile as ever with Vice President Kamala Harris taking over as Democratic nominee.

Some of that response may be because Harris has reinvigorated Democratic fundraising and campaign operations with her announcement, and she’s taken the lead nationally in several polls. Reportedly, Trump has “found the change disorienting” as he had grown used to attacking Biden.

He’s continued attacks on Harris’s racial identity, saying she is “very disrespectful” to both her black and Indian heritages, despite insistence from Republican leaders like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) to steer away from the topic. Many Republicans have publicly warned Trump away from talking about race, instead arguing he should focus on issues like the economy and immigration and his frustration with the presidential race.

“The problem I have with Kamala Harris is not her heritage; it is her judgment,” he said. “Every day we’re talking about her heritage, and not her terrible, dangerous liberal record throughout her entire political life, is a good day for her and a bad day for us. So I would encourage President Trump to prosecute the case against Kamala Harris’s bad judgment,” Graham said.

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[mystery-ak]

Charles Gasparino
@CGasparino
BREAKING: What I'm hearing from people related to the Trump campaign is NOT that professionals are screwing this up. They know what to do: Having Trump relentlessly focus on Harris's incompetence on issues ie inflation, border, world chaos; stay away from personal attacks against people like Brian Kemp. How to reverse the country's malaise w real solutions. It's so friggen easy. BUT Trump continuously goes off script, and feels he's earned that right. This is how he explained it at the Lutnick/Southampton fundraiser via my @nypost
 newsletter (quoting an attendee) when asked by a donor to tone it down: "They tried to put me in jail; they tried to ruin my reputation and then they tried to assassinate me. At some point, you have the be truthful to yourself." It's admirable given the absurdity of the other side: A completely manufactured ticket of incompetent lefties masquerading as capable centrist operators of government. BUT it's a losing formula given what he's up against including a MSM who wants him to lose
3:41 PM · Aug 10, 2024

[mystery-ak]

Trump needs to campaign...Harris has been out there everyday this week...Trump went to Bozeman last night and that was it!

[Timber Rattler]

Trump needs to campaign...Harris has been out there everyday this week...Trump went to Bozeman last night and that was it!

Perhaps not surprisingly, Trump's blowing it with his big mouth.

[LMAO]

Trump's blowing it with his big mouth.

That’s Harris’s specialty

[libertybele]

Trump needs to campaign...Harris has been out there everyday this week...Trump went to Bozeman last night and that was it!

My guess is Harris is just starting and she has a $$$ war chest.  Rumor has it that the Trump campaign is low on $$. Not surprising he spent a lot on legal fees and he has more upcoming legal fees. 

Secondly, he spent a lot of $$ on campaigning and ads against Biden and then voila Harris was inserted.

He took a bullet and perhaps they are more limited as to where they can hold indoor rallies?? He draws a huge crowd and many arenas can't accommodate that many people.

[mystery-ak]

In his 70min press conference the other day he was asked about not being out there campaigning..he said *I am way ahead in the polls and I don't need to be..besides what am I doing now*   

[corbe]

   It wouldn't matter who you're campaigning against if you had Honor and Integrity rather than trying to be everything for everybody (populist).

[corbe]

   Trump's Political situation summed up in one song, videoed in my town, my club.

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Desperate Man ft. The Band Of Heathens


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l_kj9WPcK8

[Right_in_Virginia]

Trump needs to campaign...Harris has been out there everyday this week...Trump went to Bozeman last night and that was it!

Please, resist believing what the democrats and media are throwing.  Has nothing been understood; nothing remembered?  2020 was accomplished through voter and election fraud.  2024 will be fueled by voter and candidate fraud ----- this time also mimicking the winning candidate in style; morphing into policy ---- with a rock solid media shield.

Harris just proposed no tax on tips .... The media will turn this into Trump stole Harris' proposal and that is the bullshit that will receive days of attention and angst that Trump needs get out there and stop this. 

Time to define this:  What's our role?

https://twitter.com/w_terrence/status/1822454110903214591

[Right_in_Virginia]

[corbe]

   Who would have known that her dead bounce would have lasted this long?   




   Certainly not the Trump Campaign.

[LMAO]

   Who would have known that her dead bounce would have lasted this long?   




   Certainly not the Trump Campaign.

@corbe

If you want to see déjà vu, read the “Midterm  elections 2022” thread

Trump was supposed to help Republicans win a red wave

[corbe]

@corbe

If you want to see déjà vu, read the “Midterm  elections 2022” thread

   

   I lived that 22 thread @LMAO as well as the many others since Trump came on the scene in 15. This is the main reason why I'm so poisoned against Trump's populist movement.
  Guess I should have watched 'The Apprentice' and I'd be hip now.

[LMAO]

   

   I lived that 22 thread @LMAO as well as the many others since Trump came on the scene in 15. This is the main reason why I'm so poisoned against Trump's populist movement.
  Guess I should have watched 'The Apprentice' and I'd be hip now.

I will admit to also believing that there would be a red wave. Economic angst, inflation, crime, a very unpopular Democrat president

But Trump saved the Democrats that year. God bless him

[corbe]

   The RNC has been carrying this basket around for almost 10 years.

[LMAO]

. This “No tax on Tips” is just pandering. So now both Trump and Harris agree on economic policy. Nice


And some still can’t figure out why many of us are going to leave the POTUS  box unchecked on our ballots

No tax on tips is a dumb idea  regardless who stole it from who

How long before Trump claims that Harris stole his idea that we can print money to prevent a default?

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Nobody should have been unprepared for Harris to become the nominee.  Had it been someone else, like many were speculating if Biden dropped out, then you could perhaps claim unfair surprise.  But hell, Harris is the VP and was the obvious replacement candidate if Biden dropped out, which Republicans had been arguing he should have done all along.   Trump and his campaign got exactly what they asked for when they said Biden was unfit.

[jafo2010]

The Democommies fixed the election in 2020, and they are in the process once again, of FIXING ANOTHER ELECTION.

Heck, Harris does not even need to appear.  Why?  Because it is all about the ones and zeroes.  And the stinking Republicans have done nothing to fix the problem.  NOTHING!!!

The media is saying Harris is up in the polls to reduce suspicion that the election is about to be stolen again.  And with 1,000+ political prisoners cooling their heels in prison for years, don't hold your breath for a backlash this time.  Not going to happen.

We have become Russia II.  There is almost no difference any longer between the countries, except the blatant totalitarian approaches used in Russia, and I say those are not far off.  They are working fervently right now to end freedom of speech, and when they do, this conservative website goes bye bye.  And maybe some of the people on these boards.

Our republic is gone.  Fixed elections made that blatantly clear to me years ago.

[Timber Rattler]

In his 70min press conference the other day he was asked about not being out there campaigning..he said *I am way ahead in the polls and I don't need to be..besides what am I doing now*   

Yeah, the arrogance and hubris is palpable, and it certainly seems that Trump and his campaign people have grown complacent and think that they don't have to campaign any more.  He's going to get a very unpleasant surprise if he doesn't start taking this seriously.

[Timber Rattler]

Nobody should have been unprepared for Harris to become the nominee.  Had it been someone else, like many were speculating if Biden dropped out, then you could perhaps claim unfair surprise.  But hell, Harris is the VP and was the obvious replacement candidate if Biden dropped out, which Republicans had been arguing he should have done all along.   Trump and his campaign got exactly what they asked for when they said Biden was unfit.

Yep, it's the old proverb about being careful what you wish for, you may just get it, good and hard!

[kevindavis007]

Nobody should have been unprepared for Harris to become the nominee.  Had it been someone else, like many were speculating if Biden dropped out, then you could perhaps claim unfair surprise.  But hell, Harris is the VP and was the obvious replacement candidate if Biden dropped out, which Republicans had been arguing he should have done all along.   Trump and his campaign got exactly what they asked for when they said Biden was unfit.

Trump agreeing to have that debate with Biden before he was the nominee will go down as a idiotic move.