Why the Harris campaign and Democrats are leaning into calling Trump ‘weird’


August 2, 2024

PBS

The Democratic National Committee announced Friday that Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the number of delegates in a virtual roll call to win the party’s nomination. While on the campaign trail, Harris is calling her opponent Donald Trump “weird.” It's a kind of rhetoric that her supporters and allies are repeating widely. White House Correspondent Laura Barrón-López reports

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David Karpf, George Washington University:

  • The serious messaging around Donald Trump that this is a threat to democracy if we take him both seriously and literally this time, that's important, but it's also a bummer.

    And what we're seeing here is a way to talk about this that is still on message. It's still on the theme. But there's some joy, there's some mirth, and there's some verve to it.

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