Democrats have spent recent days trying out a relatively new attack line on Donald Trump: that he is weird. The tactic is almost certainly calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are moving from marked lack of interest in the now-dropped matchup between Joe Biden and his presidential predecessor to engagement in the 100-day contest between Trump and Kamala Harris.
In a press release on Thursday, the vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, issued a list of the main takeaways of what Trump had given the American people. “Is Donald Trump OK?” the X message said. The seventh of nine entries was: “Trump is old and quite weird?”
.@benshapiro to @megynkelly: “Apparently, CNN and MSNBC used the word ‘weird’ to describe JD Vance in the last two days over 150 times. So if you don't believe that they're all marching in lockstep and they don't get their talking points from the DNC, they 100% do.” pic.twitter.com/jy27gH6dgv
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 29, 2024
At a fundraising event in Massachusetts on Saturday, Harris tried out the line again, describing what Trump and running mate JD Vance had been saying about her as “just plain weird”.
Shocking proof that the entire Democrat-Media Complex blindly parrots DNC talking points. Watch them all repeat the same scripted lines! This is really weird!!! WATCH pic.twitter.com/Q5wjpS5V6d
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) July 30, 2024
Tactic calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are now more engaged with election.
But “weird” is what seems to be sticking, in part as an apparent simplification of warnings about the threat to democracy that Trump poses – which dominated 15 months of Biden’s re-election campaign.
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