Lara Trump Reveals GOP Strategy To Take On Harris
Although much of the Republican National Committee spent nearly four years preparing to challenge President Joe Biden, the party had to quickly adapt over the past month after he withdrew and Vice President Kamala Harris became the new nominee.
Despite this unexpected shift, RNC co-chair Lara Trump, who is also the daughter-in-law of the GOP nominee, former President Donald Trump, stated that the party is well-prepared for Harris and has been anticipating this possibility for some time.
“It’s very unprecedented. This has never happened before really in US history,” she told the New York Post. “But of course, we’re not entirely surprised. For years we’ve had this in the back of our mind as a possibility. Clearly, the other side has as well.”
Despite the turmoil within the Democratic Party this summer, Trump and her team assert they have a clear strategy to counter Harris, the official Democratic nominee.
“I think the reality is and what we have to continue to focus on and drive home to the voters is that this may be a different candidate, but these are the exact same policies,” she told the outlet. “This is the same person who sat alongside Joe Biden and made every policy decision with him. He was taking this country in the wrong direction, regardless of the fact she wants to run away from those facts.”
While Harris’s early polling has been strong, Lara Trump noted that this was anticipated.
“Joe Biden was a very low-energy candidate, and you definitely see a honeymoon period with new faces in any campaign. Plus, the media certainly is doing all they can to galvanize around Kamala and her wealthy supporters,” Trump told The Post.
“But there’s a ticking clock to that. They can get all the rich celebrities they want to show up for her, but that clock is going to go off. I would say it goes off the minute she steps onto a debate stage with Donald J. Trump,” she added.
The road to victory for either candidate runs through key swing states like Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Michigan. Lara Trump believes the GOP has an advantage in those battlegrounds.
“We want to bring people back to basics,” she said. “This election is about people’s lives. Their income. It’s about kitchen table issues. There’s plenty of other things to talk about with her stance on fracking or social issues, and we’ll get to that, but we really just want this election to be about a comparison between two presidencies. Two administrations. Under which one were you and your family better off? If we can get people to think about that, we win.”
She emphasized that this is an area where Democrats can’t match her father-in-law.
“None of us know what their real policies are to improve these kitchen table issues,” she said. “Zero. None. The only thing we know is they say they won’t tax tips. And even that they had to rip off from us. But voters are smarter than ever now. I have faith they can see the truth.”
A recent poll of 10 swing states — Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — shows former President Trump slightly ahead in five states, with Vice President Harris leading in four. Georgia is currently tied, The Post reported.
There are also new concerns about the scheduled Sept. 10 debate.
“Trump’s team, according to the source, would like for the microphones to be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak, as was the case during the first debate with President Joe Biden,” CNN reported.
“The Harris campaign, however, is requesting that ABC and other networks seeking to host a potential October debate keep microphones on, according to a senior campaign official, marking a change from the June debate when the then-Biden campaign wanted microphones muted except when it was a candidate’s turn to speak,” the outlet added.