Donald Trump has dominated American politics as few individuals did before him for the past eight years. However, next week is the first time that the former president will be facing Vice President Kamala Harris in a debate, where for once, attention instead of being focused on him, will be on his challenger, which is a rare occasion.
Evoking defining narratives about Harris has turned out to be one of the most important political fights worth pursuing in the 2024 race’s politics, since that surprised entry replacing President Biden on July’s ballot.
Attitudes towards the figure of Trump have behaved more intensely in the public domain that has lasted almost a decade now. Such sentiments without exception have been effectively frozen, further, to all these, there have been scandals such as impeachments, and indictments and even a felony conviction followed by an assassination attempt. Comparatively, Harris’ support has been up and down. It has risen dramatically and suddenly and quite unexpectedly for about seven weeks now of her campaign for vice presidency, edging her potential rival, Trump.
For Harris, the Tuesday debate serves the most important task for her in an attempt to reinforce those gains. For Trump, it is the best moment to try to invalidate or change them in the first place.
It will be Trump’s seventh time taking part in a general-election homogeneous presidential debate – a record for any candidate today – whereas it will be Harris’s first time . Strategists within and outside each campaign observed that all such reservation means that there is not much more about him that new information may be or about her that voters still have a lot to learn.
“Everybody who voted for him in 2016, has voted for Donald Trump so probably they have not changed their mind at all,” said Robert Blizzard, a Republican pollster veteran. “The distinction is that even the voters started reshaping their perspective about Kamala Harris.”
The struggle of defining who Harris is – and what her purpose is – is probably already being played out in Madison, as this state is considered by many to be a crucial battleground state. Of the 325 thousand plus of airings of television ads that Trump, Harris and their most powerful super PACs paid since she entered the race, almost ninety five percent have been more about her, AdImpact’s ad tracking analysis exposed as being reported by the New York Times.
Harris has been the target of three widely circulated problematics describing her as “failed, weak and dangerously liberal” and her connection to aspects of the Biden-Harris presidency that is most unpopular with the people, especially on immigration and economy. Harris’ campaign has portrayed her as a former prosecutor on border security who advocates for the interests of middle-class people and who will be able to provide a new direction to the country even when her own party is in power.
A quirk of the compressed calendar delivered Harris another benefit: Democrats were in such a rush that Democrats were limited in the start of their convention because they also wanted to frame Harris favorably over four long days, well inside the convention. But the Republican earlier convention was more directed toward her opponent, who was then Biden. She was also popular within the democratic frame how changing America, battling for the quintessential patriotism and freedom that has once been the territory of the traditional Republican party with framed abortive rights.
In June, Biden’s communication strategy has signaled that when he would face-off with Trump, much like any ordinary American, he would go after him and suggest that he was not a president for the people but for himself and all his rich friends. However, Biden never quite used those words in his campaign that led to such attacks. Today, however, Harris is likely to present that argument.
As of midweek, how many ads have been broadcasted from the Trump campaign till date since Harris came into the picture?[AdImpact], out of the 84,937 ads that Trump has been aired since the moment Harris became a candidate till so far, only 189 were found without her in the center of the adverts. Harris has been the center of most of the ads A+ Harris has run in -80% professional on biography and an agenda or both. The leading pro-Harris super PAC, Future Forward, has spent exclusively on Harris since she has Hiarrah began to advertise and it has not run any ad that has solely been ant-Trump.
The presidential debate as it has followed the third party has a critical role with audiences of tens of millions in June the mesh of Biden’s age and waving performance raised doubts and subsequently pushed him out of the race within less than a month.
Scheduled for Tuesday, the next debate will take place in Philadelphia and will be in all likelihood, the most extended free for Harris scripted episode of her candidature – a high stress situation with an opponent who plays no social card.
The 90-minute debate format which is hosted by ABC News will follow all the rules as well as the basic ground rules practiced on the June debate between Trump and Biden where candidates microphones are muted whenever their turns to speak do not come except where incitements of the Harrison team focused on removing them have been heard.
The Harris team had been waiting to bring back a moment like she was able to relive in 2020 where it was here retort “I’m speaking” to Vice President Mike pence’s interruptions that was the highlight of the session.
The Trump team relishes the thought of bringing Harris off her talking points. Trump himself has had a hard time coming up with what could be an effective anti-harris rhetoric from him going through several bashing Harris’ image, history, or race and appearing to hop from issue to issue.
“In every attempt he tried to define her and, of all things, that’s true of him in a very non-Trumpian way, he has failed,” said Jennifer Holdsworth, a Democrat strategist. “First attempt was to turn her into Biden. The second actively tried making her a san fransisco DA, liberal and gay. Yup, Even tried the of racist. Nope. There’s absolutely not one touch of a hit on her.”
The relatively stark rise in the charting of the favorable rating of Harris has been among the interesting facets within the short period of her candidature. For instance, Harris had a negative net balance of 17 percentage points – more voters than not disapproved of her in early July as was evident in 538’ s polling averaging – voters are currently approving and disapproving of her in nearly equal measures.
In contrast, one of Trump’s key objectives at this stage quite possibly is civilizational in its response and rests on ensuring that Harris is widely and synchronically tethered to Biden on regions unfavorable to him. As per AdImpact data, the most played TV ad of trumpet adverts till now has three instances of harris selling “bidenomics” right in the heart of negative messages concerning gas prices, inflation and rising interest rates.
So far, Harris does not seem to have been hampered by negative judgments deriving from the public dissatisfaction with Biden-Harris’s resolution. Last month, a Washington Post/ABC News survey found that only 11% of Harris’ influence over the Biden administration’s economic policies was as much, 15% said the same about immigration policy, which had been the intention of the trump team’s branding of her as the immigration ‘border czar’.
‘She’s receiving all the good and none of the bad in respect of the administration’s way in which she is involved in it,’ Blizzard stated. ‘She is not accepting the so-called blunders of the Biden’s presidency.’
Celinda Lake, a pollster for the Democrats who was part of the 2020 Biden camp, argued that such a strategy was actually a trap for the Trump campaign and any place in this threat was completely ineffective – either Harris was to be a political nobody, or an influence maker.
Weathering any outside influence is something that’s impossible. “I have no idea how you could say she did nothing and yet she was the hand behind Bidenomics,” Lake said. “It’s such a contradiction. You can’t have it both ways.”
In Arizona, on Wednesday, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, who is Trump’s running mate, attempted to balance the trump campaign narrative by branding Harris as “radical” as well as a ‘sasa girly’ flamingo who was drifting into the center after swing to the left during a democratic presidential primary in 2020.
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There have been extensive exp. advertisement on the television with both the Trump and Harris teams, as well their associates where Immigration was in the main terrorism authors, one Ohioan Trump spot explaining how criminals that were released by Harris as a district attorney have managed to fight crime while they are free. This one concludes telling the audience that “the victim’s blood is in her hands, adverts, Harris”.
The Harris team is taking advantage of the time she has spent in office as California attorney general, trying to strengthen her crime fighting credentials, and calling her a ?border-state prosecutor? in one ad. Of course, these debates have been about issues but even more about impressions, voters? feeling about the candidate and his/her strengths and weaknesses, readiness and temperament.
On thursda,y however, Harris flew to Pittsburgh where she is expected to spend several days preparing for rigorous debates. However, she started to organize herself for such a debate several months ago – even before she declared herself as candidate for presidency.
She formed a debate preparation group headed by a very experienced democratic lawyer, Karen Dunn. Philippe Reines, who had previously been cast as Trump during Hillary Clinton’s debate preparation four years ago, was brought on as a substitute for Vance while she theoretically faced him during her debates. Now, Reines is in heavy rotation as Trump.
Speaking for the first time on CNN this year, Reines presented himself as a “Daniel Day-Lewis kind of guy” when it comes to actors cosplaying their characters. The pinned post at the header of his X account is of the practice debate he had at a Trump rally back in the year 2016 where he attempted to grab Clinton during the debate acting as Trump.
“ Chin you want to throw everything at them,” Rein when allehs saying it’s very important to prepare the candidate against every possible scenario.
Trump has shown that he prefers more of an open ended approach to debate preparation instead of having a structured approach, throwing ideas and some attack lines to his aides and friends. Trump is bitter that he is running against Harris, and it is very clear that he does not hold any respect for her.
“He was really controlled in the Biden debate and that helped him. I was there,” Lake recalled of Trump.” The danger is can trump refrained from overeaching.”
There are two reasons why the Tuesday’s debate may be particularly significant. So far, the two sides have agreed to hold just that one debate, however, there have been discussions with NBC regarding one more debate.
