Donald Trump’s campaign is preparing a plan of attack to take out Kamala Harris if Biden drops out of the race.
If Biden steps down as the Democratic nominee, Vice President Harris will likely replace him, and Trump’s team has already begun devising a strategy to topple her.
The plan includes a series of ads focusing on Harris’s record in her current office, as well as her time in office in her home state of California.
Trump campaign strategists have compiled volumes of opposition research on Harris, two people with knowledge of the matter told The New York Times.
According to both sources, anti-Harris signs and videos were made to show delegates in the arena of the Republic’s National Convention and the TV audience at home.
Donald Trump’s campaign prepares attack plan to defeat Kamala Harris if Biden drops out of the race
Similar books have been written about other prominent Democrats who could enter the fray if Biden withdraws.
Since Harris is the obvious choice, most of Trump’s team’s preparations are focused on her.
This Republican preparation is based on the assumption that if Democrats ignored the first black woman to become vice president, the party would become further divided and black voters would become alienated.
One of the preparations is the holding of polls that were recently conducted to gauge public opinion about the current vice president.
Surprising new polls show whether Democrats actually want Kamala Harris to be president, as Biden’s campaign collapses and his popularity on the left declines.
A poll shows that about six in 10 Democrats think Vice President Harris would do a good job if Biden were to step down and she became president.
A poll conducted by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Researchwhich found that a majority of Democrats were confident the country would be in good hands if Harris took power.
About 58 percent of Democrats think Harris would make a good president, while 22 percent think she wouldn’t and 20 percent “don’t know enough to say.”
For comparison, 30 percent of the general public think Harris would make a good president, while a whopping 87 percent of Republicans said she would NOT be a good president.
If Biden steps down as the Democratic nominee, Vice President Harris will likely replace him — and Trump’s team has already begun devising a strategy to topple her
Trump’s team has also thought beyond just who his opponent will be and how to defeat him. They are also exploring potential running mates for Harris and preparing strategies to defeat them as well.
One of the names floating around as a possible running mate is that of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
Pennsylvania is the state Trump’s campaign is most focused on to prevent Democrats from capturing the White House for a second term.
Brian Fallon, Harris’ campaign spokesman, said in a statement to the Times: “After the bipartisan border deal collapsed, Donald Trump is lying about the vice president’s record.
“As a former district attorney and attorney general, she has spent her career standing up to fraudsters and criminals like Trump. Trump’s lies will not deter her from continuing to prosecute him on the biggest issues in this race.”
According to reports, Trump’s campaign has gone relatively easy on the president since his disastrous performance at the June 27 debate.
This move is being made in the hope that Biden will remain the Democratic nominee, as Republicans believe that Biden will be easier to defeat than other potential opponents.
If Biden decides to withdraw from the presidential race but does not step down as acting president, Republicans will argue that the same reasons he withdrew from the race make him unfit to run the country, insiders said.