How Will The Trump Campaign Change Its Strategy To Defeat Kamala Harris Instead Of Joe Biden?

3 months ago

On "Forbes Newsroom," Iowa State University Profressor Dr. Kelly Winfrey spoke about Donald Trump's campaign in the wake of Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race.

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00:00what this means for the Trump campaign, especially given the recent assassination attempt?

00:06Well, I think that's a great question. And I believe former President Trump had made a statement

00:11in the past day or so that they've had to totally change everything up because they have a new

00:15appoint, a new opponent. And that's exactly correct, right? They've been campaigning against

00:20Joe Biden, very much focusing on his age and competency. And that was really one of their

00:25stronger arguments. And now that's gone. So it's really going to force them to very quickly come

00:32up with a new strategy to try to best Kamala Harris, especially now that Donald Trump is the

00:38oldest ever presidential candidate. So it really turned the tables and I think will cause a lot of

00:45upheaval in his campaign. But I'll say, they should have at least had a backup plan, right?

00:50Given Biden's age, given that debate performance, there should have been as a campaign campaign

00:56team, a what if, so that they had some strategy ready to go. We'll see what that ends up looking

01:01like, though. Do you have any guesses what you think they're going to try and target her on?

01:07You know, I mean, I fully expect to see lots of sexism and racism, to be honest, you know, from

01:14what I study and what we saw with Harris as the VP nominee in 2020, there was rampant sexism and

01:22racism. I mean, straight up kind of vulgar commentary on Twitter. I expect there'll be some

01:28of that in the social media realm. We've already heard J.D. Vance say that she was a childless cat

01:35lady who was miserable. So, you know, I expect fully that sort of thing. Also, just from President

01:40Trump, that's his style is to kind of name call and go after things like that. But I, you know,

01:46I think probably you will hear some discussion of certain issues like immigration in particular.

01:52Harris kind of headed that up when she first became vice president and also still trying to

01:58attack on some of the same issues since she's been part of the current administration. Some of the

02:03same attacks that are issue based that they were planning to use toward Biden should also be at

02:08least somewhat useful against Harris.

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