This Is How The GOP's Message Should Change As Kamala Harris Launches 2024 Campaign: Steve Forbes

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On "Forbes Newsroom," Steve Forbes gave his take on how the Republican Party should adjust its messaging to Vice President Kamala Harris as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee.

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00:00The RNC was in Milwaukee last week and a lot of the speeches we saw coming out of there is that the GOP platform this time around is way better than four more years of President Biden.

00:12So how do you see Republicans messaging change now that it isn't President Biden running again?

00:18It's the Biden team. You can ask, who was running the White House as his mental acuity declined?

00:25Who were the real players? Who were the real power wielders?

00:30And so Kamala Harris is going to say, oh, I knew nothing about this. I was powerless.

00:35Well, that doesn't say very good things about her. So she can't walk away.

00:40It's going to be very difficult for her, which is why they're going to try to hit Donald Trump, the devil incarnate,

00:46because if it focuses on the Biden administration, they lose and lose big and there's no way she can walk away from it.

00:53Michelle Obama could conceivably wash her hands of it.

00:57But even she would have to answer questions about, do you favor forcing people into EVs?

01:03And that's why and that's why, again, they want at least a VP candidate,

01:08the Democrats, who has none of the baggage from the Biden administration, which is very real.

01:14What we saw over the past two weeks was a united Republican Party in the wake of the assassination attempt of Donald Trump.

01:22We saw ever since really the presidential debate, a chaotic, panicked Democratic Party.

01:29But within the past 24 hours since President Biden did drop out, Kamala Harris did raise eighty one million dollars, record breaking there.

01:38Do you think, A, that this energized a Democratic base and B, should Republicans be worried?

01:44Well, given the crazy times we live in, the Republicans should not take this election for granted.

01:51There was a little bit of that complacency, a little bit of the celebration after Milwaukee.

01:57But even Donald Trump warned at a rally this past weekend, don't be complacent.

02:03We've got an election in front of us and make no mistake, they're going to hit the Republicans on Donald Trump, the devil.

02:11They're going to hit him on abortion. They're going to hit him on.

02:14Oh, they're going to take away your health care.

02:16Expect to see ads again with grandma in a wheelchair being wheeled off a cliff.

02:21Oh, they're going to take away Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security.

02:25Oh, they're going to these evil people.

02:27So those attacks, even though there'll be little truth in them, are going to be huge.

02:32And that's why the Republicans have to be prepared on issues and not get into personalities and ask those questions.

02:40Were you better off under Trump before Covid hit?

02:43Were you better off under Joe Biden?

02:45Who's going to let you keep your dishwasher?

02:47Who's going to let you keep your washing machine, gas stove and the like?

This Is How The GOP's Message Should Change As Kamala Harris Launches 2024 Campaign: Steve Forbes

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