Harris and Trump launch lines of attack: A crook or ‘Dumb as a Rock’

Vice President Kamala Harris framed her apt upcoming combat against Donald Trump arsenic 1 betwixt a authoritative and a transgression — describing, from her caller run office Monday, her acquisition taking connected “predators,” “fraudsters” and “cheaters.”

Trump astir the aforesaid time, meanwhile, took to Truth Social to telephone Harris “Dumb arsenic a Rock.”

The comments, some made arsenic Trump and Harris began preparing to instrumentality connected each different aft President Joe Biden announced helium would not question reelection, provided a glimpse into the 2 candidates’ expected lines of attack.

Trump, who during a rally successful Michigan Saturday nighttime called Harris “crazy,” “nuts,” and “Laughing Kamala,” is apt to crook to advertisement hominem attacks against her, portion Harris is expected to thin into her acquisition arsenic a authoritative — and Trump’s presumption arsenic a felon with wide-ranging ineligible problems.

Trump connected Monday fired disconnected a station expressing that helium was bothered by the tv quality sum helium saw of Harris and Biden.

“Wow, conscionable watching the Fake News, and they’re doing their precise champion to crook the Worst President successful the History of our Country into a ‘Brilliant and Heroic Leader’ (He was heroic due to the fact that helium quit!), and to crook “Dumb arsenic a Rock” Kamala Harris from a wholly failed and insignificant Vice President into a aboriginal “Great” President,” Trump wrote connected Truth Social connected Monday. “No, it conscionable doesn’t enactment that way!”

Trump’s insults of his opponent’s quality aren’t constricted to Harris. At the rally Saturday, Trump utilized the connection “stupid” nary less than 13 times, much than fractional of which were successful notation to Biden, who helium besides repeatedly called “low IQ.” During the Republican primary, Trump nicknamed Nikki Haley “Birdbrain.”

Trump has agelong deployed sexist remarks against women lasting successful his way, peculiarly during his palmy 2016 statesmanlike campaign. At the time, helium didn’t conscionable onslaught Hillary Clinton, the archetypal pistillate nominee of a large governmental party, but others similar Republican statesmanlike campaigner Carly Fiorina and blimpish writer Megyn Kelly.

During his run against Clinton, Trump made amusive of her for “shouting,” accused her of lone having “the pistillate card” to play, of not having “the look” to beryllium president, and notably, of being a “nasty woman.” More recently, Trump has launched idiosyncratic attacks against Black Democratic women similar New York Attorney General Letitia James and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

His comments astir women — often brought up by critics discussing his unpresidential “rhetoric” — person antecedently outgo him enactment with suburban and assemblage educated voters, contempt his 2016 Electoral College win. A redeployment of akin verbal assaults against Harris could spell Trump caller problems successful an predetermination that, for months, helium has led solidly.

While Trump has been trying retired caller nicknames and onslaught lines against Harris, his run and allies, meanwhile, person sought to necktie Harris to unpopular Biden policies, chiefly the confederate border.

“Same twelvemonth — aforesaid radical — aforesaid grounds of nonaccomplishment — aforesaid result,” Trump advisers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles wrote of Harris successful a “State of Play Day 1” memo Monday night, calling her “Border Czar Kamala Harris.”

Speaking to run unit successful Wilmington, Delaware connected Monday, Harris distilled her lawsuit against Trump.

"I was a courtroom prosecutor. In those roles, I took connected perpetrators of each kinds,” Harris said. “Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped disconnected consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their ain gain. So perceive maine erstwhile I say, I cognize Donald Trump's type.”

Harris continued by saying Trump “wants to instrumentality our state backwards, to a clip earlier galore of our chap American had afloat freedoms and rights.”