Donald Trump Won’t Be the First Felon Kamala Harris Holds Accountable
For years, Republicans have said what we all know to be obvious – Kamala Harris is a formidable candidate to take on Donald Trump.
Kamala Harris stands up to fraudsters and criminals. Donald Trump is a convicted felon.
Kamala Harris has always been focused on fighting for and delivering for the American people. Donald Trump only fights for himself. Even Trump’s closest allies know that contrast is clear.
Don’t believe us? Vice President Harris was the nominee for all of a couple of hours before Donald Trump started laying the groundwork to avoid debating her.
And that’s why Vice President Harris will win this election. Stay tuned.
Harris for President Spokesperson Ammar Moussa released the following statement:
“Vice President Kamala Harris has held criminals accountable her entire career – and Donald Trump will be no different. Vice President Harris has dedicated her career to making life better for working people – while Trump only cares about himself. That’s the contrast the American people will see over the next 106 days.”
Don’t just take our word for it – here’s what Republicans have been saying for years:
Axios: Some of [Trump’s] advisers are quite concerned that a fresh, youthful, non-Biden ticket presents a bigger threat than Trump assumes…the Trump team’s biggest concern, and some early polling flicks at why, is that Harris would help turn out more women, who historically vote in greater numbers than men. Harris — armed with Democrats’ abortion message, which worked well in off-year elections — could leverage the nation’s gender divide.
Vanity Fair: “‘I think she’s dangerous, and probably maybe the most dangerous, from our view,” a veteran Republican political consultant told me this month.
ABC4 News: “They know that as a senator, she represented 1 in 8 Americans. They know that as attorney general of California, she ran one of the largest law departments in the country. They know that she was one of the first African American women to be the district attorney of San Francisco,” Hostin said. “That is a hard thing to do. She’s a three-peat winner.”
LA Magazine: Still another GOP source had a grave warning for anyone in the party who would underestimate Harris: “She’s a nightmare.”
John Hudson: People close to Trump say they expect Kamala Harris will be a more effective messenger on abortion than Biden was, and could stem some of the anger over the Israel-Gaza war that has bedeviled Biden’s candidacy, report @KnowlesHannah @jdawsey1 @marianne_levine @AshleyRParker
Washington Examiner: “Former President Donald Trump‘s team is reportedly worried he is not taking seriously the threat Vice President Kamala Harris poses to him if Democrats replace President Joe Biden with her as their nominee.”
Tim Alberta: “That sound you hear is the Trump campaign ripping up a detailed, brilliant, and suddenly useless blueprint for beating Joe Biden…Really cannot overstate how problematic this is for Trump’s operation. Everything they built was customized for a contest with Biden. And I mean… *everything*.”
Politico: “It’s striking how much GOP anger there is over today’s news. Donald Trump’s campaign is built to beat Joe Biden.”
Intelligencer: “Republicans are bracing for the fact that Harris will be a more effective campaigner than Biden and certainly a better debater. And they think that should Harris ultimately become the nominee, she will be awash in positive media coverage from outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post, which Republicans believe have been on a crusade to replace Biden.”
New York Times: On the convention floor on Thursday, Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican, told the conservative network One America News that he thought the Democratic nominee would be either Ms. Harris or Michelle Obama, the wife of former President Barack Obama, who has said repeatedly that she is not interested in running for office.
“Both of them, I think it’s going to be a real challenge and a real fight,” said Mr. Cruz, who is running against Representative Colin Allred, a Dallas-area Democrat. “I think we will win in November. But I want every Republican to understand we’ve got a serious fight.”
New Republic: Trump and his allies have good reason to fear a potential Harris run. Harris, who is nearly two decades younger than Biden and Trump, would likely appeal to independent and Democratic voters who have expressed interest in a younger candidate. She could also potentially increase voter turnout among women, who tend to vote in greater numbers than men. Harris, who has been a sharp critic of measures restricting abortion across the country, could help to recenter the overturning of Roe v. Wade as the key issue in the upcoming election. Abortion access was a winning policy point for Democrats during the 2022 elections and could ensure a renewed wave of enthusiasm and turnout in November.
Chris Sununu: “If and when they make the switch, everything is going to change. It’s going to get very close in a lot of those tighter states. There’s going to be more energy. I think the Democrat party would effectively be rewarded, if you will, by independents for saying, ‘Hey none of us liked that whole Biden-Trump ticket to start with.’”
Alex Conant on Trump’s disadvantages in facing Vice President Harris: “He says things that no other politician can get away with. The ultimate deciders are going to be suburban women—the exact voters that are most likely to be turned off by sexist attacks and name-calling.”
Alyssa Farah Griffin: “There’s a reason Donald Trump isn’t out there shouting about the debate…he is afraid of [Vice President Kamala Harris].”
Matt Klink: “Instead of a comparison between the two candidates both with significant negatives, it would create more of a 2020-like climate where Donald Trump becomes the issue… all while having a younger, more vibrant candidate capable of making compelling arguments, highlighting the future and, equally important, counterpunching against Donald Trump when he stretches the truth.”
Frank Luntz: “It would change the race significantly because it brings race directly into the picture and it brings gender directly into the picture… If Trump goes back to the Trump we’ve known, then all bets are off. “I think the Republicans should be a little more careful about what they wish for,” he added. “It reminds me of the dog that catches the car. It doesn’t work out very well for the dog.”
Scott MacFarlane: GOP strategist Terry Sullivan tells @CBSNews that his fellow GOP operatives are “less than enthusiastic”
“They’re the dog that caught the car”
