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The 2024 campaign will now turn on whether Trump can blunt Harris’ soaring start. Donald Trump’s campaign, which has whiffed in its early attacks on Kamala Harris’ new presidential campaign, will grapple this week for a more effective foothold after vice president transformed an election of stunning surprises.

The ex-president has deployed some of his most trusted political tools — targeting racial identify, creating alternative realities, flinging insults and gaslighting. On Sunday, he spread a new false conspiracy theory over the size of Harris’ rally crowd in Michigan last week. His efforts to bring down his new adversary & her policy of ignoring his provocations have so far more highlighted his own liabilities than hers & emphasized way Harris could offer a new choice for voters. When the ex-president called Harris “dumb” at a Montana rally Friday or falsely claimed last mth that she “happened to turn Black,” he may have delighted his base voters. Those kinds of comments risk alienating women swing-state voters, as well as reversing gains he has made among minorities.

Mon Aug 12, 2024. New polling shows Harris gaining momentum in key states
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/12/polit...index.html