Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will face off tomorrow evening in Philadelphia for the one debate scheduled between the 2 candidates earlier than the 2024 election. Unable to assert, as he did previous to debating Joe Biden, that his opponent can be on performance-enhancing medicine, Trump has spent the times main as much as the occasion complaining that it has been rigged towards him. However inside the Trump marketing campaign, there may be apparently a a lot larger concern: that the ex-president will spend his allotted time waging misogynistic, raced-based, advert hominem assaults on Harris. Or, in different phrases, that he’ll be himself.
The Guardian reports that Workforce Trump “is most involved going into the debate towards Kamala Harris with the previous president’s temper, afraid that the mercurial Trump may interact within the sort of self-sabotage that turned off voters within the 2020 presidential election, based on folks accustomed to the scenario.” Anxious that Trump will change into pissed off and offended, advisers to the ex-president are stated to concern “his worst instincts to make advert hominem insults within the vein of latest assaults on Harris which have turned more and more private and excessive” will come out. Trump, The Guardian notes, has “struggled traditionally with Black girls in positions of energy, and the marketing campaign is bracing for him to not repeat latest feedback that questioned Harris’s race or brazenly misogynistic feedback, and extra broadly, if he launches into prolonged and rambling diatribes which have change into a characteristic of his rallies.”
Clearly, it’s not laborious to grasp why folks round Trump are nervous about what he may say on the controversy stage. Since Harris turned the Democratic nominee, he has:
- Claimed she solely just lately turned Black
- Repeatedly insulted Harris’s intelligence, known as her “barely competent,” stated that she “can’t do a information convention” as a result of “she’s not smart enough,” and claimed that she’s “not as smart” as Joe Biden
- Falsely claimed that Harris “couldn’t go her bar examination” (she did, on the second strive, and was admitted to the California bar the yr after she graduated legislation college)
- Shared one other Reality Social person’s publish that included a photograph of Harris with Hillary Clinton and a caption that read, “Humorous how blowjobs impacted each their careers in another way…”
- Shared a video that parodied the Alanis Morissette track “Ironic” and known as Harris “moronic.” One other lyric stated Harris “spent her entire rattling life down on her knees,” as a picture of former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who Harris dated within the ’90s, flashed onscreen
The one factor that Trump has going for him? The 2 candidates’ mics can be muted when it’s not their flip to talk, probably curbing a number of the worst issues he may need to say.
