Word Campaign: Don’t Like Trump’s Nicknames — Harris Turns the Tables

Alarm in Trump’s campaign team: While Democrats only labeled the New Yorker “weird,” conservatives couldn’t find Kamala Harris offensive and attacked her verbally.

On July 20, Donald Trump’s campaign team is on the road. Things are going well enough to prevent them from attacking their political opponents as they tear themselves apart after losing their first TV fight. At the same time, a term coined by Trump about US President Biden circulated in the press at the time: “Sleepy Joe” was troubling Washington.

But the next day, Team Trump turns the world upside down when “Sleepy Joe” decides not to run for re-election. It doesn’t surprise him that Kamala Harris has emerged as the favorite for the White House race. The problem is that they still don’t have an offensive strategy against them. And no catchy nickname.

Trump made his first attempt on Independence Day. In a True Social post, the New Yorker wishes “everyone a happy 4th of July” and sarcastically includes those who want to give him one on this holiday: “the most incompetent ‘president'” or “the demented Biden attorney Jack Smith. ».

“Smiling Kamala Harris” becomes a boomerang

The 78-year-old called Kamala Harris by the nickname “Laughin'” for the first time. laughing or laughter. He “may be a new challenger”, but has done “badly” in his party. Trump’s team would have been surprised by how quickly and unanimously Democrats came to an agreement on Harris after Biden’s departure.

Although Republican Matt Gates responded to Trump’s post, saying, “That’s it. Best of all. point” CommentedThe nickname “Smiling Kamala Harris,” intended to belie the 60-year-old’s seriousness for the presidency, made no waves. On the contrary: the attack is a shot in the foot.

The majority of commenters did not find Harris’s laugh funny, but endearing. Entrepreneur Portal Inc. Pointing out the psychological benefits of the “mobilizing power of happiness.” “New York Times” calling her happiness “one of her most useful weapons”. And this “Religious News Service” Title: “What the Talmud Teaches Us About People Who Laugh at Kamala Harris’ Laughter.”

Rohrkrepierer “Lie Kamala Harris”

By the time Harris’ campaign team launched their laughing attack, his verbal attack had failed miserably. His wisdom «Margaret Thatcher didn’t laugh like that, did she? If she had done that, she wouldn’t be Margaret Thatcher” is meaningless.

Trump’s strategists have noticed this, so they’re trying a new word: Republican front-runner Harris wants to draw attention to the fact that, as vice president, Biden has not been outspoken about the Constitution. But “Layin”, because lie Or lie, it sounds something like that the lionI mean Leo, Trump needs to spell out the whole thing in one speech.

It is not optimal. The insult got more traction on social media than “laughin’ Kamala Harris,” but the point is missed. Instead of Joe Biden’s health, the headline is that after he resigns, he’s putting the country first. Attention turns to Haris, the party’s support and his nomination.

A desperate search for attack points

Conservatives are desperately looking for new starting points: they complain that they should never have taken power. She is very soft on crime but very hard on prisoners. And Ted Cruz says: “She won’t get my gun. It doesn’t get my combustion engine. She doesn’t get my steaks and cheeseburgers in hell.

Republicans didn’t go any further. Trump’s deputy James David Vance also warned that Harris wants to ban fracking, gasoline and red meat in his latest campaign speech. “She thinks she’s better than us. She thinks she’s better than you,” he says in Atlanta, Georgia.

Because Trump has little ammunition against Harris, he’s already fallen into a racist trap — and Vance has scored his first misogynistic victory with “childless cat ladies.” The standard for Republicans, on the other hand, is to find an opponent on the far left: Fox News Vice President Tim Walls. “Extreme Leftist Governor” The picture of the country fits into the picture.

And Walls is known as “Tampon-Tim” because he campaigned for free tampons in Minnesota schools — in addition to free lunches.

Harris’ News Warding

Democrats have also changed their rhetoric since taking over from Harris Biden. That’s only logical: The White House’s repeated insistence that democracy is at risk because of Trump has worn off. Harris named his opponent for the first time on July 26 “weird”.

Different Weird, crazy, or funny stuff. The term is more general and less specific. It fits the variety of scenes Trump and Vance bring to the stage — for example, when the 78-year-old raves about movie villain Hannibal Lecter, warns about wind turbines or fantasizes about death by shark attack.

The opponent’s reaction gives an idea that the new tactic will be effective. “They’re Strange” shows Trump received the honor. “Nobody’s ever called me weird. I’m many things, but not weird. Neither is he, I tell you. J.T. [Vance] not that. It’s you.”

Republicans react emotionally: Vivek Ramasamy, for example, calls the Democrats’ new words “stupid and childish.” This is surprising given that Trump likes to insist repeatedly that he should not call his party opponent, Chris Christie, a “fat pig.”