Trump’s New Rival May Bring Out His Harshest Instincts

The New York Times ^ | July 23, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET | Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Donald J. Trump and his political team spent nearly two years tailoring a campaign to defeat an old white male president who is conspicuously frail and who most Americans had told pollsters they doubted could handle another four-year term.

Suddenly, Mr. Trump faces a starkly different opponent: a vice president who is a Black woman, nearly 20 years younger, and who brings her own strengths and weaknesses but who adds new uncertainty into what had been a remarkably static race.

Allies of Ms. Harris have already telegraphed that she will run a campaign framed around a “prosecutor versus felon” theme, highlighting her experience as a prosecutor and underscoring the fact that Mr. Trump has been indicted in multiple jurisdictions and convicted of 34 felonies.

The prosecutor-versus-felon approach may appeal to undecided voters who had been sour on both Mr. Trump and President Biden. It may also goad Mr. Trump, who reacts strongly to criticism, into resurrecting the language he has used against other Black female prosecutors, such as Letitia James in New York and Fani Willis in Georgia, both of whom he has called “racist” and attacked in personal terms.

In a preview of what’s to come, Ms. Harris made the prosecutor’s attack line explicit during an appearance on Monday, describing her past as the district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California.

“In those roles I took on perpetrators of all kinds: Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump’s type,” she said.

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[combat_boots]

To wit….feminism is a phase.

[cymbeline]

“Does anyone believe the Times?”

I pay a little attention to my wife, a Trump hater based only on his personality.

After watching the Republican Convention and Biden’s recent behavior, and already knowing something about Harris, she was warming up to the idea of a Trump presidency.

Then Trump spoke nastily about Harris after he heard that Biden was dropping out. My wife’s hate for Trump came roaring back.

This is Trump’s election to lose and he can lose it.

Please, Donald, stick to the issues. Voters don’t need to be schooled on Harris’s flaws.

[x]

Well, yeah, all the sexual references on the Internet only create sympathy for her. Trump has to be careful with that. Also, if he claims Harris isn’t black that will backfire on him.

[bgill]

Trump is smart enough to have planned out several campaigns knowing FJB likely wouldn’t make it to the election for whatever reason.

[Deepeasttx]

Harris has melanin but she is NOT “Black”.

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I’ve heard this before. She identifies as black, others label her as black. I looked up a pic of her father after someone said he was a white Jamaican. But he looked light-skinned, possibly black. If anyone can choose a mix of Heinz 57 genders, then one can pick their race, I suppose.

What is her racial make-up anyway?

[DoughtyOne]

Harshest?

Like 98% of the media against Trump 24/7/365

Like the Communist leaders making up lies about him constantly?

You mean our university professors skewing history and making
it look like he’s something he’s not and has never been?

The New York Times has had its harshest instincts on
display for 9 years.

[M Kehoe]

What is her racial make-up anyway?

My understanding is father is Jamaican with slave and Caucasian (British) ancestry. Mother is Indian (Dot).

Some negro blood, probably 5%>

5.56mm

[ohioman]

It’s sad that your wife is so easily triggered. I feel for you.

[Vaduz]

Monday, describing her past as the district attorney of San Francisco and the attorney general of California.

All the ceilings looked the same.

[JimRed]

Suddenly, Mr. Trump faces a starkly different opponent: a vice president who is claims to be a Black woman, nearly 20 years younger...

[JimRed]

She must believe in the old, racist “one drop” rule!