Kamala Harris’ closing message is unclear, Donald Trump dominates media by going off script

Donald Trump has settled connected a closing message, but it’s not wide what last content Kamala Harris wants to permission with voters successful the past 2 weeks. 

Trump, arsenic I’ve reported, has boiled it down to migration and the economy. Of course, the erstwhile president has besides wandered disconnected publication to speech astir Arnold Palmer’s genitalia and calling Harris a "s*** vice president," arsenic good arsenic stealing the limelight with his fry-cookery astatine McDonald’s.

Harris is moving a accepted Democratic run and not making overmuch news, which is simply a occupation for her – adjacent arsenic National Review’s Jim Geraghty says the GOP portrayal of her arsenic a dunce is incorrect and she could win.

As champion I tin portion together, the vice president is emphasizing 2 things successful this last stretch. One is termination rights, a post-Roe chaotic paper that evidently favors Democrats, accusing Trump of lacking compassion.

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Former President Trump appears to beryllium settling connected migration and the system successful his closing connection to voters – contempt flying wildly off-script astatine times portion doing so. Vice President Harris' transportation is acold little clear. (Getty Images)

The different is, well, that she’s not Trump. Harris present calls him "unstable and unhinged" successful astir each appearance.

That’s just game, arsenic candidates person slimed their opponents since the opening of the republic. And struggling candidates often usage fearfulness to discredit their opponents, connected the mentation that you whitethorn not emotion me, but this different feline is acold worse and volition destruct our country.

But we’ve known since the time aft Joe Biden stepped speech that the now-60-year-old veep was moving arsenic the anti-Trump. And it’s not similar her hostile doesn’t hurl invective astatine her. But adjacent with her amped-up rhetoric, and the fodder that Trump himself provides, saying he’s a menace to ideology has been successful her playbook each along.

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And it conscionable truthful happens that the media are abruptly filled with pieces questioning the 78-year-old’s intelligence acuity. What a opposition with the journalistic soundlessness implicit Biden’s declining fittingness until his disastrous statement with Trump, which forced him, nether Democratic pressure, retired of the race.

I tin archer you from my Trump Tower interrogation that helium did not look tired, and whether you liked his answers oregon not, helium was cogent. What made the biggest quality was his defence of describing Jan. 6 arsenic a "day of love" and naming Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff arsenic "the force within," the second being 2 clips that acceptable up punchlines for Jon Stewart astatine the "Daily Show." 

Schiff fired backmost with an X posting, and a spokesperson for Pelosi denied his remarks astir her turning down the National Guard successful a connection to Rolling Stone.

Her main surrogate astatine the infinitesimal is Liz Cheney, who sacrificed her governmental vocation to crusade against Trump. This is ironic, of course, since astir Democrats despised Cheney and her father, Dick Cheney (who has besides endorsed Harris), some for the Iraq War and their hard-right views.

At a municipality hallway gathering in Michigan – 3 questions from the assemblage – Harris besides took 3 questions from the press, though the journalists had been preselected by her staff.

Cheney’s pitch: "If radical are uncertain, if radical are thinking, well, you know, I’m a conservative, I don’t cognize that I tin enactment Vice President Harris, I would say: I don’t deliberation anybody’s much blimpish than I am, and I recognize the astir blimpish worth determination is, is to support the Constitution."

Republican erstwhile Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, girl of erstwhile Vice President and Democratic lightning rod Dick Cheney, appears to beryllium the Harris campaign's main governmental surrogate astatine the moment. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

She added: "We each know, everyone who watched January 6 knows, you know, what Donald Trump is consenting to do. He mislaid the predetermination — helium tried to overturn it and prehend power."

Cheney is the awesome of different salient Republicans who are backing Harris, including respective erstwhile Trump medication officials, astir arsenic a support gaffe for crossing enactment lines. But Harris, portion moving to the center, hasn’t changed 1 argumentation that would entreaty to specified voters, oregon challenged wide orthodoxy, and hasn’t been capable to sanction 1 large happening she would bash otherwise than Biden.

After her testy speech with Bret Baier, Harris did an interrogation with activist/pundit Al Sharpton, who openly supports her, that made nary news. She denied having a occupation with Black men, though everything she has been doing – visiting Black churches and restaurants, sitting down with Charlamagne Tha God, rallying with Lizzo – shows her run believes she does.

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The upshot is that Harris is having occupation making news, oregon astatine slightest caller news, against a antheral who tin prehend headlines each mates of hours.

Trump acknowledged to maine successful our Mar-a-Lago interrogation that helium sometimes uses inflammatory connection to make media attention. That’s wherefore helium does it. With Politico dubbing this "the genitalia campaign," Trump knew his treatment of Arnold Palmer’s junk would origin cries of outrage by the different side, but that locker-room speech would besides entreaty to immoderate men.

The Donald’s little stint astatine McDonald’s was truthful striking that it was replayed again and again. Harris was adept capable to accidental that she supports an summation successful the national minimum wage and Trump does not. 

Trump's little stint astatine a Pennsylvania McDonald's reverberated successful mainstream media circles this weekend, to the tune of amusement and ridicule alike. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

And, yes, it was a wholly staged stunt. News flash: Politicians person been utilizing symbolic backdrops oregon doing working-class jobs astir forever. Big deal. The New York Times shed caller airy by uncovering a person who says she worked with Harris astatine a circumstantial Bay Area McDonald’s successful 1983. 

And yet, media detractors cited this, and his profanity, and him swaying to euphony aft turning a municipality hallway interrupted by 2 aesculapian emergencies into a concert, arsenic grounds helium is "losing it."

Trump has present scored an upcoming interrogation with Joe Rogan, guaranteed to marque quality with the incredibly influential podcaster who erstwhile vowed ne'er to enactment him on; I don’t cognize what became of Harris’ discussions to beryllium down with Rogan.

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Harris, for her part, did beryllium down with Hallie Jackson for an interrogation airing past nighttime connected "NBC Nightly News."

Asked a bid of reasonably pugnacious questions, Harris again made nary news. Her archetypal reply was that she would not proceed the Biden presidency and mentioned price-gouging. Does she spot sexism successful the sex spread among men? She sees men and women astatine her events. No sexism astatine all? "I don’t deliberation it’s that way."

When Jackson said "your messages haven’t connected with them yet," she pivoted to "Trump would terminate the Constitution." She said she would not marque concessions connected termination rights. She passed up an accidental to knock Elon Musk.

What if Trump prematurely declares victory? "This is simply a idiosyncratic who tried to undo a escaped and just election, who incited a mob to onslaught the Capitol." In short, thing she hasn’t said before.

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If Kamala is going to alteration the nationalist cognition of her by doing thing astonishing oregon stunning, by breaking distant from her mostly practiced answers, she’s got a dwindling fig of days to bash it. She whitethorn person raised a cardinal dollars for a almighty crushed game, but astatine this constituent it each comes down to the closing message.