Harris’s 60th birthday weekend highlights shift from joy to hostility
By
Christian Datoc
October 19, 2024 3:51 pm
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As Vice President Kamala Harris gears up for her 60th birthday and a tight showdown with former President Donald Trump, her campaign has notably taken on a harsher attitude.
Harris traveled to Michigan on Friday, where she held multiple campaign events and targeted Trump. The vice president attended a rally Saturday alongside recording artist Lizzo in Detroit, where she wore a “Detroit Vs. Everybody” shirt gifted to her earlier this week.
Later on Saturday, Harris will head to Georgia for a rally in Atlanta featuring city legend Usher. The vice president made “Joy” the resounding message of her campaign’s early months, but as she remains neck-and-neck with Trump in both national and battleground polls, her campaign messaging has shifted more toward attacking Trump directly.
Harris and allies, including former President Barack Obama, have begun giving Trump the treatment Republicans gave Joe Biden, namely by accusing him of having a decline in energy and flat-out telling voters he’s too old to be president.
“His team is saying that he is suffering from exhaustion. That’s the excuse,” Harris said to reporters in Michigan on Friday, accusing the former president of beginning to turn down podcast appearances, scale back his campaign travel, and decline to take part in another presidential debate.
“You know, look, being president of the United States is probably one of the hardest jobs in the world,” she continued. “And so we really do need to ask ourselves — if he’s exhausted from being on the campaign trail, is he fit to do the job?”
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