Posted on 10/22/2024 12:54:01 PM PDT by lightman
We're just two weeks away from the election, but Vice President Kamala Harris will not be on the campaign trail today. Such a move earned strong words from former and potentially future President Donald Trump.
"I was going to hit her really hard on the trail today," Trump said about Harris, "but now I don't have to 'cause she's off, she's off." To laughter from the crowd, Trump continued that he "couldn't get over it."
"Who the hell takes off when you have 14 days left?! And she'll take a couple of more days off, too," Trump predicted. "You know? She's lazy as hell and she's got that reputation. She's a radical left lunatic," the Republican nominee continued, reminding that Harris is "further left than Bernie Sanders or Pocahontas," referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), to more laughter from the crowd.
"They're out there," Trump said about the three leftists. Harris is "the furthest left," he continued, warning, as he's done before, that we "can't have a Marxist" for president.
The remarks came while Trump was doing a Latino roundtable event in Doral, Florida.
đź’€ OMG. Trump is going OFF on Kamala right now.
"She's off [the campaign trail today]? I can't get over it. Who the hell takes off when you have 14 days left She's lazy as hell. She's got that reputation."
Then he brought up "Pocahontas." This crowd is DYING laughing! pic.twitter.com/MQJiO8wKDA — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 22, 2024
Trump wasn't the only one to mock Harris for sitting out on the sidelines. During Tuesday morning's "Wake Up America" on Newsmax, host Sharla McBride noted that Harris is "taking the day off" and "is gonna spend all day just to prepare for an NBC interview, which will be taped, of course."
"You're a football coach," McBride said to her guest, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL). "This would be like two weeks before the national championship if you decided not to practice. Does this make sense to you?"
With a chuckle, the senator offered, "Well, I think they're just trying to keep her off camera, to be honest with you," adding that "she's been a disaster" and "her poll numbers keep going down."
Tuberville also spoke positively of Trump in contrast, describing him as "an Energizer bunny" and one "who does not quit," as "he just keeps going, and going, and going." The senator shared how Trump's even called him before at two or three o'clock in the morning to ask what he's doing, and only sleeps two or three hours a night.
"But, he loves what he's doing, he loves the country," Tuberville continued about Trump. In a more serious tone, the senator made clear that Trump is "our only chance. We can't lose this. We can't have another four years of this nonsense of spending money that we don't have, of all the things that are going on in foreign wars. He will get us out of the foreign wars, he will get us back to spending the right way, but we've got to get identity back in our country. Right now, we don't have an identity and the Democrats are to blame for it because they pushed this agenda that is totally nonsense."
"Kamala Harris, she's taking the entire day off. She's going to spend all day just to prepare for an NBC interview, which will be taped."@TTuberville: "I think they're just trying to keep her off camera to be honest with you. She's been a disaster." pic.twitter.com/xTWJlUVT7R — Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 22, 2024
Harris has not had much luck with pretaped interviews or other events. The "town hall" she did with former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) on Monday in Michigan didn't even allow audience members to ask questions, as they instead went with "predetermined" ones.
Ric Grenell also chimed in on X about Harris "taking a day off from campaigning," noting that former President Barack Obama will be campaigning for her. The former president, who came under fire for trying to bully black men into voting for Harris during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania earlier this month, will be in Detroit with Eminem.
Kamala Harris is having Barack Obama step in for her today - she’s taking a day off from campaigning. — Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) October 22, 2024
POLITICO, which has been particularly favorable to Harris and particularly harsh towards Trump for this race, focused on the campaign stop during their Tuesday PM Playbook, "The two-week blitz begins." It's something of an ironic headline, given that Harris herself isn't participating in Tuesday's "blitz."
While this edition of Playbook hit Trump for moving campaign events, they still spoke about how Obama will be the one campaigning in Detroit. Further, Harris will be spending her time in Texas to focus on her pet issue of abortion in a state she is almost certainly not going to win:
HAPPENING TODAY — Tonight, former President BARACK OBAMA will campaign for Harris in Detroit. Introducing him at the rally will be MARSHALL MATHERS , the rapper better known as EMINEM, CNN reports. It’s an intriguing choice that can be read as a play for headlines, a play for Detroit-area men, a play for elder millennials, a play for middle-class white suburbanites (like Macomb native Mathers himself), a play for the affections of young-ish voters, or all of the above.
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HAPPENING THIS WEEK — Harris will head to the Lone Star State to speak to voters at “ground zero of state-level abortion bans in the post-Roe era,” Myah Ward writes.
Why Texas, a state she’s unlikely to win? “[T]hink less about the location and more about the national message,” Myah writes. “The campaign stop is the latest effort to elevate an issue that fueled Democrats to a better-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterms. And it underscores the Harris campaign’s belief that Trump’s position on abortion can once again persuade women — especially white women without a college degree — to vote for her.”
Joining Harris in Houston on Friday will be Democratic Senate hopeful Rep. COLIN ALLRED, who narrowly trails Republican Sen. TED CRUZ in recent polls. While still a reach for Democrats, “an Allred win would be critical to Harris’ hopes of working with a Democratic Senate majority should she win in November,” The Texas Tribune’s Jasper Scherer reports.
Trump will do a Friday interview with Joe Rogan, as POLITICO also reported on Tuesday.
Corey Lewandowski, a Trump campaign senior advisor, also spoke to Newsmax on Tuesday about Trump's busy schedule, highlighting how "President Trump is going to be everywhere," in contrast to the "lazy" Harris-Walz ticket.
Lewandowski also mocked Harris' campaign strategy, in particular noting how she's "doing one interview for about 15 minutes which will probably be edited subjectively and then she'll, uh, be exhausted for the rest of the day." He made clear that he "will put Donald Trump's schedule up against anybody who's campaigning for president, who has ever campaigned for president. And the American people see it. They see him out working and taking nothing for granted."
The American people, Lewandowski added, also "see that Vice President Harris and Tim Walz are lazy. They won't fix this country, and they want someone who's willing to work 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to put our country and make it great again, and that's what Donald Trump is doing."
COREY LEWANDOWSKI: “I've been with Donald Trump so many days where he just outworks the entire staff. On Sunday, he left at about 5:30 AM. We got back to Trump Tower after at about 1:30 AM. Kamala is doing one interview for about 15 mins.” 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/CfFWO3G7F7 — Proud Elephant 🇺🇸🦅 (@ProudElephantUS) October 22, 2024
Harris isn't the only one in the Harris-Walz campaign shifting around events, though. Spectrum News reported on Tuesday that "Gwen Walz’s Tuesday visit to Maine canceled," where she was supposed to give yet another speech promoting the ticket's obsession with abortion.
He’s too funny.
It will be great when He turns the country around for the SECOND TIME.
The fact she’s in Michigan again speaks volumes. She’s far away.
That R margin in Miami-Dade is unreal. That’s the first time I’ve EVER seen Miami red.
It sounds like a mental health day. She needs the rest.
She’s practicing a new big girl word and phrase she can repeat at her townhall tonight and tomorrow on CNN.
And telling her supporters to remain calm
She knows it’s over. She might throw in the towel.
Who takes a day or two off? A candidate that has internal polling indicating that unless the campaign makes some MAJOR changes in the next two weeks you are gonna get beat. So she is huddled with her advisors trying to salvage her campaign.
I expect them to go from negative to really really negative.
Such a move recalls Biden’s hiding in the basement knowing the 2020 election would be stolen.
I’m worried they’ll put Biden back.
My wife is convinced that the democrats will steal this election as well.
As much as I enjoy reading these they make me uncomfortable. The non red wave of 2022 wasn’t that long ago.
Realize that this is not a sign of Dems giving up, but of them cooking up the most extreme, scorched-earth cheating tactics they can find.
The real battle isn’t going to be between D voters and R voters. It will be between the Democrat/Deep state machine and the Trump lawyers, with all establishment Republicans siding with the former. I can already hear calls for Trump to concede.
They are cooking up something for sure. That’s why she is off.
Biden took almost every day off and he still “won.”
Maybe Harris is working on “get out the vote” with Democrat dirty tricks teams.
Well all they have to do, is find him at the local ice cream store.
Kamala must be hiding with all the drag queens, monkeypoxers, father stabbers and other weirdos. You just don’t see any of them around...its like they’ve disappeared. The DNC must have told them to make themselves scarce.
What did they call it when Biden had such a day? I can't remember the term they used. "Off day" ? Does anyone remember?
I suspect she has a medical issue that might include substance abuse. She showed up at a rally in Michigan on Saturday and spoke for no more than six or seven minutes. Why go through the trouble of traveling there if that’s all you’re doing?
It was called a “lid”. I suspect Kamala is drinking quite a bit. Saw her in a recent appearance and she was clearly drunk.
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