As the first debate with Kamala Harris looms large, President Trump is pulling no punches.
(Only 10 days away!)
Giving us a possible glimpse into his debate strategy, President Trump has started to consistently refer to Kamala with a new nickname in interviews and on social media:
I look so forward to Debating Comrade Kamala Harris and exposing her for the fraud she is. Harris has changed every one of her long held positions, on everything. America will never allow an Election WEAPONIZING MARXIST TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 31, 2024
“Comrade Kamala” seems to be President Trump’s newest witty tagline for his opponent. Coupled with the campaign’s focus on “EXPOSING” the real Kamala, we may be getting a clear indication of President Trumps primary plan of attack for the upcoming debate.
Here’s President Trump speaking in front of the cameras while campaigning in Michigan just a few days ago, as a quick example:
President Donald Trump slams “Comrade Kamala” for her extreme positions and countless flip flops since running for president: “She’s worse than Biden…she’s a total Marxist.”
“Every single thing that she believed in two years ago, or a year ago, she now says ‘oh no.’” pic.twitter.com/ePWduFoJyo
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) August 26, 2024
There it is again: “I call her Comrade Kamala, because she’s like… she’s a total Marxist. I mean, the whole thing is… her father’s a Marxist professor – he taught her well.”
And check this out — President Trump using exactly the same approach during a recent sit-down interview with Mark Levin. Reading from a Fox News article describing the interview:
EXCLUSIVE: Former President Trump unleashed on Vice President Kamala Harris in a wide-ranging interview on Fox News’ “Life, Liberty & Levin.”
Trump warned that a Harris presidency would include no fracking in pivotal battlegrounds, like Pennsylvania, saying that the Democratic nominee is a “radical left Marxist.”
“I call her comrade Kamala because she is radical left. She’s a radical left Marxist. And that’s what she is. And she’ll destroy our country,” he said. “There’s not going to be any fracking in Pennsylvania.”
(Emphasis added for reference.)
If that was just a one-off occurrence I might not make any more of it. (Except to add a “Here, here!” because I completely agree with it.) But there seems to be a lot of consistency with how often “Comrade Kamala” and the label of “Marxist” has been thrown around lately, and not just by President Trump.
Cory Lewandowski, his former (circa 2016) campaign manager and now a senior official in President Trump’s current campaign, has used exactly the same language. Watch this short clip of Lewandowski using almost identical language with Glenn Beck on The Blaze a few days ago:
Trump 2024’s @CLewandowski_ on Kamala Harris: “Nobody honestly believes her idea was ‘no tax on tips.’ Nobody believes she’s actually for the border wall…She is a Marxist on a GOOD day…[The American people] are going to see it when she has to debate Donald Trump.” pic.twitter.com/QIx6OIJ6lZ
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) August 27, 2024
And from The Blaze story describing the conversation between Lewandowski and Beck:
Trump campaign senior official Corey Lewandowski told Glenn Beck that former President Donald Trump would use a debate to expose Vice President Kamala Harris, just as he exposed President Joe Biden.
ADVERTISEMENTLewandowski made the comments while being interviewed by Beck, co-founder of Blaze Media, on his radio show Tuesday. Beck asked him to comment on Harris’ lack of experience and policy prescriptions when Lewandowski said she would be exposed at the upcoming debate.
“Nobody honestly believes her idea was no tax on tips. Right? Nobody believes that she is actually for the border wall. Nobody believes that she doesn’t think Biden economics is what the process is going forward. People do believe, and they should, that she wants to have price controls. She is a Marxist, on a good day,” he said.
(Emphasis added for reference.)
It seems clear to me that the strategy chosen by the Trump Campaign for the upcoming debate is intended to be a POTENTIALY DEVESTATING jab, cross, uppercut combo:
JAB! – attack her on policy, specifically the complete lack of anything clearly defined (AT ALL) since becoming her party’s nominee…
RIGHT CROSS! – fully embrace the role of “EXPOSING” Kamala for who she really is…
TRUMP-STYLE UPPERCUT! – Give her a new nickname that sums up the chosen plan of attack, which resonates with voters who are fearful of her and Walz’s records on socioeconomic issues, and REPEAT IT OFTEN!
(Don’t lie. You can hear the video game ending in your head, too – right??? “FINISH HER!“)
Thus was born President Trump’s newest nickname for his opponent: “Comrade Kamala”. Personally, I think it’s catchy. And not at all off the mark.
To quote President Trump in his interview with Mark Levin, (referenced in the Fox News article earlier): “Most people don’t know her, and she’s a Marxist.”
It is one thing to call your opponent an emotionally charged name; it’s another thing entirely to be able to back that up with solid reasoning and facts. I have seen President Trump make the case, in the examples above, and I have seen him use that new nickname to great effect… so far.
The question is, will President Trump be able to land those punches and make the claim stick for potential voters during the debate — that she is exactly what he’s saying she is? Many, myself included, need no convincing that Kamala Harris and Tim Walz have dangerously Marxist tendencies. But he doesn’t need to convince those of us who already share that view. He needs to convince the swing voters; the ones that could go either way — the ones who will most likely be the pivotal votes that decide the outcome in November.
That is… if Kamala Harris actually shows up for the debate.
Which, if you ask me, is debatable.
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