Trump struggles to keep his edge against Harris with fewer than 100 days until the election
Donald Trump predicted he would face Kamala Harris, but he wasn’t ready for the reality of an election reset that put him on his heels.
Donald Trump predicted he would face Kamala Harris, but he wasn’t ready for the reality of an election reset that put him on his heels.
The former president is diluting his own message with scattershot attacks on the vice president and, for the first time in his political career, has struggled to stay at the center of national attention.
Between the historic passing of the baton from President Joe Biden to Harris and the public vetting of Trump’s own vice presidential pick, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the most famous man on the planet became a relative afterthought at the tail end of last month.
But that changed quickly Wednesday, when he sat down with three members of the National Association of Black Journalists — all women — for a televised interview in Chicago.
Trump was combative from the start. He immediately criticized how questions to him were presented, slammed the organization that invited him and made baseless, racist claims that Harris, who is both Indian American and Black, only recently began identifying as Black. The latter comment quickly dominated the airwaves, and Trump doubled down on the assertion Thursday by posting a photo of a young Harris with adults dressed in traditional Indian clothes.
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