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Kamala Harris allies deploy new Trump attack line: he is ‘just plain weird’

US Democrats have spent recent days trying out a relatively new attack line on Donald Trump: that he is weird. The tactic is almost certainly calibrated to resonate with young and independent voters who, polls show, are moving from marked disinterest in the now-dropped matchup between Joe Biden and his presidential predecessor to engagement in the 100-day contest between Trump and Kamala Harris.

In a press release Thursday, vice-president and presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris issued a list of the main takeaways of what Trump had given the American people. “Is Donald Trump OK?” the X message said. The seventh of nine entries was: “Trump is old and quite weird?”

At a fundraising event in Massachusetts on Saturday, Harris tried out the line again, describing what Trump and running mate JD Vance had been saying about her as “just plain weird”.

“I mean that’s the box you put that in,” Harris said after Trump had called her “a bum” the previous day and Vance disparaged her in 2021 as a “childless cat (lady)”.

Viking_Hippie ,

I like how the MSM aren’t at all overhyping this by publishing articles about how brand new and brilliant it is several times a day for about a week.

I mean yes, it IS true that the American Fascist Party are a bunch profoundly weird creeps and squares and it’s probably ALSO true that that insult hits them harder than the more serious ones, but that’s not gonna keep being the case if the media makes everyone sick of hearing about it…

Naich ,
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Fuck me. If he was only “weird” 80% of the world wouldn’t be scared shitless that he’ll get in power again.

toast ,

While this can’t be the only line of attack, it is a good one. Already, Trump seems to be having difficulty attacking Harris, as he has to work to continually suppress saying the most racist and sexist things he can think of. Imagine if he has to react to the ‘weird’ criticism by continually, on the fly, suppress some of his stranger speaking topics too. I’m guessing the mental load of doing that might put an amusing amount of strain on the old man. Imagine Trump, if the rallies weren’t fun for him anymore. How’s he going to recharge that narcissistic brain of his?

FlyingSquid ,
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I know they don’t want to use words like ‘senility’ and ‘dementia’ because of Biden, but come on. He’s not running now and he’ll only be president for a few more months.

frog_brawler ,

Yikes… let’s try harder with the next one.

AlternatePersonMan ,

Yes… If weird equals racist, loser, pedophile, soulless, senile, moron.

I am in full support of Harris, but I hate this attack. Am I understanding this correctly?Describing that asshole as weird is an insult to weird. Weird is what most of us are. I very much hope it is not something I have in common with that orange shit stain

hushable ,

for some reason, out of all of the adjectives you listed, weird is the only one that seems to have an effect on boomers. If it works, it works

Num10ck ,

how about Slimy?

dogsnest ,
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What’s that dwarf got to do with it?

solsangraal ,

i really hope they move past this “we need to use gentle soft language in our criticisms of rapist convicted felon con man trump” bullshit

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

You went easy on the lying treasonous, traitorous coward.

solsangraal ,

i genuinely shake my head sometimes at democrats’ strategy. “weird” is not a bad thing to many many people. it’s a term that’s ridiculously easy for someone to say “yea. i’m weird. so?”

and then what? “so, THERE!!!”?

recall also that one of the most D cities in a deep red state, austin, celebrates their weirdness.

ffs democrats. get your shit together

Viking_Hippie ,

“weird” is not a bad thing to many many people

I’m one of those people, but fascists are REALLY not.

Seeing themselves as the only “normal” ones and declaring everything outside of the norm scary and evil is how they keep marginally functional in spite of enormous cognitive dissonance.

To a fascist, weird = abnormal = the OTHERS = evil

HurlingDurling ,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

I’d like to see something to address his wannabe dictator tendencies

solsangraal ,

there are SO many things they could attack, and they choose “let’s call him weird”

i get more annoyed the more i think about it

SlopppyEngineer ,

Using hard language is seen by his supporters as an attack on them all and drives them into the defensive making Trump stronger. Calling him weird sidesteps that reaction and deflates Trump, especially if he launches a weird rambling speech as a response.

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