Donald Trump is set to embark on a campaign tour through Arizona, Nevada, and California this Thursday morning. His campaign team aims to challenge Kamala Harris, portraying her as appealing in style but lacking substantive policy proposals.
While many analysts were quick to declare Harris the winner of Tuesday’s debate, Trump’s advisers argue that she failed to provide clear solutions for pressing issues such as inflation and border security. This will be a key theme in Trump’s speech to supporters in Tucson on Thursday afternoon.
Senior campaign adviser Tim Murtaugh stated that Trump plans to highlight Harris’s lack of clarity on critical topics during the debate. “It’s about contrast,” Murtaugh explained regarding Trump’s strategy for the coming days. “Trump has a plan to make life more affordable for everyday people, while Harris does not. In fact, she’s hiding her true intentions.” He dismissed media coverage celebrating Harris’s debate performance as mere sensationalism.
James Johnson, cofounder of J.L. Partners, said his argument was borne out by a snap poll of independent voters he conducted for DailyMail.com immediately after the debate. ‘Despite giving the title of debate winner to Harris, independents felt one big question was unanswered: What would Kamala Harris actually do in office? Half of independents told us they still felt they did not know enough about Harris’ plans after the debate, significantly more than said the same for Trump,’ he said.
‘That lack of detail may not be damaging in its own right – politicians have been elected with worse baggage than that – but if the Trump campaign can fuse it to a sense that she lacks beliefs, principles and strength, it could become a weakness.”
The snap poll showed that 49 percent of respondent believed that Harris performed best on the night, compared with 43 percent who said Trump won. And when viewers were asked for one word to describe how listening to her made them feel the top answer was ‘hopeful.’ For Trump, it was ‘annoyed.’ Yet, few said it had changed the way they planned to vote, and Harris only saw a slight bump in her favorability. And, while 37 percent of respondents said they needed to know more about Trump’s plans in office, some 50 percent said the same for Harris. That leaves it all to play for during the last two months of campaigning in a race that is too close to call.
Trump will use his visit to Arizona to hone his pitch to Hispanic voters in a key battleground, and to highlight how the state has been the inflation epicenter of the country. ‘Arizonans know they would be worse off with another four years of leadership that frivolously spends our hard-earned money and continues to defend criminals over lawabiding citizens,’ the campaign said. ‘It’s exactly why Arizonans trust President Trump to make America affordable and safe again.’
Trump will also set out how prices have risen in the state since President Joe Biden and his vice president took office. His campaign calculates that that amounts to $10,939 in extra transportartion costs, $5,611 on energy, and $3,968 on food.
On Friday, Trump will be at his own golf club just outside Los Angeles where is scheduled to hold a press conference. And later that day he flies to Las Vegas, Nevada, for a rally in another battleground state.
Murtaugh said the trip would highlight Trump’s busy interactions with the media, compared with Harris’s reluctance to engage with questions. ‘On the issues, in the areas that it matter for people, she harmed herself last night because people tuned in, looking for answers from this mysterious candidate, and they didn’t get anything,’ he said of the debate. ‘People remember that, you know, like she’s hiding something … hiding a lot of things.’
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