One Republican strategist who has run campaigns against Donald Trump says he recognizes what the former president is doing against Vice President Kamala Harris, even as Trump swings back and forth between attacking her record and questioning her racial identity. It's what he's done against other opponents. He figures out what their perceived weakness is and drills down on it, said Terry Sullivan, who was a senior adviser to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 Republican presidential campaign.
Trump's attacks on Harris' racial identity an echo of his onetime questioning of former President Barack Obama's birthplace have caused some top Republicans to suggest Trump may be ignoring issues they see as favorable for him. Marc Short, who was chief of staff to former Vice President Mike Pence, said he questions whether the Republican nominee will stick to the script his team prescribes.
I think that there is a lot of time left. But I'm also not optimistic that you will see message discipline either, said Marc Short, whose former boss renounced Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. It's hard to have confidence that there will be an orchestrated effort to highlight that because we will continue to do things like debating whether Harris is Indian American or African American.
Focus on the economy. In June, an AP-NORC survey found that about 4 in 10 American adults and only about 1 in 10 Republicans approved of the way Biden was handling the economy. Most Republicans 56% say the outcome of the upcoming election is extremely import.
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