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“Biden was not fit to run for President,” he wrote.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 Republican leaders are warning party members against using overtly racist and sexist attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris, as they and former President Donald Trump \u2018s campaign scramble to adjust to the reality of a new Democratic rival less than four months before Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a closed-door meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday, National Republican Congressional Committee chairman Richard Hudson, R-N.C., urged lawmakers to stick to criticizing Harris for her role in Biden-Harris administration policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis election will be about policies and not personalities,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters after the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not personal with regard to Kamala Harris,\u201d he added, \u201cand her ethnicity or her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The warnings point to the new risks for Republicans in running against a Democrat who would become the first woman, first Black woman and first person of South Asian decent to win the White House. Trump, in particular, has a history of racist and misogynistic attacks that could turn off key groups of swing voters, including suburban women, as well as voters of color and younger people Trump\u2019s campaign has been courting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The admonitions came after some members and Trump allies began to cast Harris, a former district attorney, attorney general and senator, as a \u201cDEI\u201d hire \u2014 a reference to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIntellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel,\u201d Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman said in a TV interview. \u201cI think she was a DEI hire. And I think that that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing and I just don\u2019t think that they have anybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Biden announced he was exiting the campaign, Republicans have rolled out a long list of attack lines against Harris, including trying to tie her to the most unpopular Biden policies and his handling of the economy and the Southern border. Trump campaign officials and other Republicans have accused Harris of being complicit in a cover-up of Biden\u2019s health issues, and they have been mining her record as a prosecutor in California as they try to paint her as soft on crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson said both Trump and Harris have records in White House policy and said voters can compare how families were doing under the Trump administration with how they\u2019re doing now under Biden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe is the co-owner, co-author, co-conspirator in all the policies that got us into the mess,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden announced Sunday that he was withdrawing from the race. In a memo on the state of the race Tuesday, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio argued the fundamentals of the campaign had not changed now that Harris appears increasingly likely to be the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Democrats deposing one Nominee for another does NOT change voters discontent over the economy, inflation, crime, the open border, housing costs not to mention concern over two foreign wars,\u201d he wrote. \u201cAs importantly, voters will also learn about Harris\u2019 dangerously liberal record before becoming Biden\u2019s partner.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In similar messaging, Hudson told members at the Tuesday meeting that the NRCC is focusing on how Harris is even more progressive than Biden and essentially \u201cowns\u201d all the administration\u2019s policies, according to a person familiar with the conversation and granted anonymity to discuss it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Steve Daines, who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, echoed that criticism, calling Harris \u201ctoo liberal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s not an Irish Catholic kid who grew up in Scranton. She\u2019s a San Francisco liberal,\u201d Daines said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump offered a similar argument in call with reporters Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s the same as Biden but much more radical. She\u2019s a radical left person and this country doesn\u2019t want a radical left person to destroy it. She\u2019s far more radical than he is,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo I think she should be easier than Biden because he was slightly more mainstream, but not much,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, in an interview on Newsmax, Trump claimed Harris \u201cdestroyed the city of San Francisco,\u201d though she left her job as district attorney there in 2011, and called her \u201cthe worst at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cKamala Harris is just as weak, failed and incompetent as Joe Biden \u2014 and she\u2019s also dangerously liberal,\u201d the Trump campaign said in a statement. \u201cNot only does Kamala need to defend her support of Joe Biden\u2019s failed agenda over the past four years, she also needs to answer for her own terrible weak-on-crime record in California.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump has a long history of launching particularly caustic and personal attacks against women, from former Fox News host Megyn Kelly to his 2016 primary opponent Carly Fiorina to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully sued him and his business for fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sign of what could come, Trump in a Fourth of July message on his Truth Social network took a jab at Harris\u2019 poor performance in the 2020 Democratic primary, adding \u201cthat doesn\u2019t mean she\u2019s not a \u2018highly talented\u2019 politician! Just ask her Mentor, the Great Willie Brown of San Francisco.\u201d Harris dated Brown in the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Strong and intelligent women who attack him seem to get especially under Trump\u2019s skin, said Stephanie Grisham, a 2016 campaign aide who served for a time as Trump\u2019s White House press secretary, before breaking with him after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s going to get a real rise out of him,\u201d predicted Grisham, noting that when Trump is attacked, he \u201cpunches 1,000 times harder. He\u2019s not going to be able to help himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to women, she added: \u201cHis go-to is to attack looks and to call women dumb. It\u2019s his go-to and I don\u2019t expect this to be any different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who is a prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus and was among the early Democrats to confront Trump, said she is well-braced for what\u2019s ahead as the Republicans turn the campaign toward Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first thing I think about are the attacks that are going to come from the Trump, the MAGA right wing \u2014 that have already started,\u201d Waters told the AP. \u201cThey\u2019re going to be nasty they\u2019re going to be bad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She predicted that approach might backfire on Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe danger is that he\u2019s so arrogant and egotistical that he\u2019s going to step on women and it\u2019s going to backfire,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dynamics could be heightened on the debate stage, if Trump goes through with debating Harris, as he said Thursday he would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican pollster Neil Newhouse said Trump was unlikely to debate Harris in the same way he would debate Biden \u2014 or the same way he debated another female rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think Trump can approach a debate against Kamala Harris with the same tone that he approached the debate with Hillary Clinton. Kamala Harris does not have the negatives that Hillary had and she is a relatively new political face,\u201d he said. \u201cCaution might be warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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