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Kamala Harris has approached the final sprint of her campaign needing to do at least two things that are occasionally in conflict: Raise the stakes of a second Donald Trump term by talking about the past, and also talk to voters about their futures in a way that brings in new constituencies.
On Wednesday, an exogenous event gave the vice president the chance to do the former while new polling showed she was achieving the latter.
Echoing Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly’s misgivings, a phalanx of former Trump officials sounded alarms about what they described as the former president’s fascistic impulses and fixation with Hilter and his generals.
“Does he have authoritarian tendencies? Yes,” Elizabeth Neumann, a former senior Homeland Security official in the Trump administration who has endorsed Harris, told POLITICO. “Is he kind of leaning towards that ultra-nationalism component? Absolutely. That is kind of his brand, right? He’s made nationalism the new definition of the Republican Party.”
In her CNN town hall Wednesday evening, Harris called Kelly’s warnings a “911 call to the American people.”
Trump, predictably, took the bait, lashing out at the storyline in a Truth Social post, calling Kelly “a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”
Harris’ campaign capitalized on these Trump detractors throughout the day, and announced a mega rally at the Ellipse, the same place where he delivered his speech before the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol — a reference to the past.
But perhaps more importantly, Harris showed Wednesday her message about the future may be breaking through.
“On every economic issue surveyed, Kamala Harris has closed the trust gap or even surpassed Trump as the candidate that swing-state voters trust more,” according to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll of the battleground states.
And with that, Harris won the day.
We ask ourselves every night: Who won the day? Now we’ll tell you — every weekday. Last night, it was Tim Walz.
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