A former GOP strategist believes Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is approaching an upcoming debate with Kamala Harris in such a way that it'll be a "disaster for him."Stuart Stevens told CNN panelists Monday night on "NewsNight" that not only is Trump's head in the wrong place — "his ca...
  • LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world
    107·
    2 months ago

    His strategy will be

    1. Throw word salad at every question

    2. declare his policies are the best that anyone has ever seen in the history.

    3. call “Camila” a Marxist, communist, socialist, bird brain, nasty woman, and a total disaster. All these words mean the same to him and his base.

    4. regardless how bad he does, declare himself a winner at the debate. Whine and fundraise for the rest of the campaign.

    • demizerone@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      The hilarious part is Kamala will do her best to refute those claims. The best strategy is to say “no you”, but she won’t do that and will fall into his traps. If she calls him a rapist and a felon and a loser with small crowd sizes to his face, than that’s a different story.

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
        18·
        2 months ago

        Why would she want to play to his strengths, by walking in and just throwing insults at him the whole time? That’s a terrible move.

        • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 months ago

          I don’t think this would necessarily be playing to his strengths, look at how effective the “weird” narrative has been.

          Also, almost no one that would vote for Trump is doing so on policy. Sure, she needs to talk some policy to keep moderates (and actual leftists) engaged, but I think there’s some need to mock him and his movement.

          To make a bit of an analogy, look at how Gamergate actually ended; it wasn’t from crossing any bridge that went too far, or convincing people they were enabling harassment, it ended when Steven Colbert made fun of the movement on his show, and then that got mainstream attention.

          • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            10·
            2 months ago

            Trump should have been knocked out in the first GOP primary debate in 2016. Everyone expected him to be laughed off the stage and for his campaign to fall apart. Instead, the other candidates took him seriously, and he was able to steamroll and bully his way through the primary. Mocking and humiliating Trump for being an unserious candidate was the winning strategy then, and it’s the winning strategy now.

      • rayyy@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 months ago

        When the weird orange felon does his trump trot mouth diarrhea thing, and he will, Kamala Harris should pick out the most obvious, most embarrassing or most offensive one, disassemble it in an unflattering way then say she doesn’t have the time to address the other lies.

  • Hydra_Fk@reddthat.comEnglish
    38·
    2 months ago

    Hot mics and cage match or im not interested. “Omg it’s Harris with a steel chair!”

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’d love for her to hit even harder.

      “Trump wants out of the debate. I’d call him a pussy, but those things can take a pounding. Don’t know about the rest of you girls, but unlike Trump, my genitals don’t wilt at the slightest criticism.”

  • fodderoh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    This is just working to lower expectations so a bad performance can still be called a win.

  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    2 months ago

    Trump has frankly gotten embarrassed at every debate he’s done, but the media handicaps him so hard that the narrative ends up being about everything his opponent does. So of course he’s going to do the debate. He’s going to say bat shit crazy things, he’s going to lie, he’s going to be cringe as fuck and he’ll probably say a bunch of racist and sexist things.

    And the next day all the media will talk about is the time Harris sneezed or slightly mispronounced some word or some shit.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      4·
      2 months ago

      I’m expecting him to do hilariously poorly. Man can’t even maintain his train of thought when saying a single sentence.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    5·
    2 months ago

    New headline: Former president will be a train wreck in September. Order popcorn now.