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Nearly a month since a raucous and successful convention, Republicans are divided on how to win the 2024 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While former President Trump is focused on crowd sizes and allies are bashing Vice President Harris for not sitting down for media interviews, some Republicans, like former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, assessed that her party\u2019s leaders need to \u201cquit whining\u201d and focus on policy instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris has taken the lead over Trump in the national polling average by Decision Desk HQ\/The Hill and is ahead of the former president in six out of the seven battleground states since replacing President Biden at the top of the ticket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, Republicans are struggling to figure out how to hit back at the momentum behind Harris, an about-face from the united front they had at their convention last month in Milwaukee standing solidly behind Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat the Trump campaign has to do is actually prosecute that case. We have to turn up the volume so that the voters look beyond the celebrity coronation of Harris and understand the real record,\u201d said Marc Lampkin, a GOP lobbyist and former deputy campaign manager for Bush for President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow do they turn up the volume? We need a unified voice that forces corporate media to look at the issues important to the American people, like inflation, immigration, and crime. They need to ask the essential question of if you are better off today than you were four years ago,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley, who was Trump\u2019s top competitor in GOP primaries this year, addressed the July convention where she called on Republicans to unite and elect Trump, offering her clearest endorsement of the former president since she dropped her own bid for the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Less than a month later, with Harris now at the top of the ticket, Haley told Fox News that Trump needs to pivot his messaging away from crowd sizes and toward substantive policy if he wants to connect with voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNikki is largely right, if it was a traditional campaign. Trump doesn\u2019t do traditional campaigns. He does name calling, and personal attacks and has a hard time talking policy because it isn\u2019t interesting to him,\u201d said a former Trump campaign staffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source added, \u201cRepublicans are united in a policy message but Trump isn\u2019t likely to get on board with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Republicans have also pleaded with Trump to be more disciplined with his messaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the former president has used rallies, interviews and press conferences to gripe about Harris, lobbing a host of personal attacks toward the vice president, including suggesting during a national convention of Black journalists that she had \u201cturned Black.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) argued that Trump has \u201csquandered\u201d the goodwill he received after the assassination attempt on him last month during a rally in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was a lot of sympathy for him in the country and a major vacuum on the Democratic side. He peaked just before the Hulk Hogan appearance followed by his speech at the Republican National Convention. The speech was one of the greatest missed opportunities in the history of American politics and it has all been downhill from there,\u201d Curbelo said. \u201cClearly he is listening to no one right now and letting the public see him sweat the new realities of the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, the Harris campaign launched \u201cRepublicans for Harris\u201d and touted endorsements from more than 25 Republicans, including Trump-era aides Stephanie Grisham and Olivia Troye and former Reps. Joe Walsh (Ill.) and Susan Molinari (N.Y.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley\u2019s comments on Fox and willingness to criticize the strategy of the Trump campaign shows the anxiety among Republicans about how they will beat Harris, argues the Haley Voters Working Group. The group is made up of Haley supporters and has been in touch with the Biden, and now Harris, campaigns as they have tried to court more Republican voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmbassador Haley\u2019s rebuke of Trump\u2019s current \u2018strategy\u2019 was a clearly an indicator that Republicans are growing more and more concerned about his chances in November. I\u2019m sure alarms are ringing behind closed doors,\u201d said Emily Matthews, spokesperson for the group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump spoke Monday with Tesla founder Elon Musk on social platform X where he focused on issues like inflation and attacked Harris as a \u201cSan Francisco liberal,\u201d citing her record on fracking and defunding the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former president was able to avoid inflammatory comments, unlike when he touted the size of the crowd on Jan. 6 in comparison to the audience from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign defended its strategy, saying it led to the most \u201cdominant primary victory in history\u201d and that it hasn\u2019t changed for the general election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only does Kamala Harris co-own all of Joe Biden\u2019s failures, but she is even more dangerously liberal. While Kamala hides behind staff to walk back her long-held policy positions and refuses to take questions on where she stands, President Trump has made clear his agenda to make America wealthy, strong, and safe again through his 20 Promises to Make America Great Again and 2024 Republican Party Platform,\u201d Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Trump campaign has used some opportunities to hit Harris on a variety of policy areas, particularly on her work involving root migration issues. In North Carolina on Wednesday, Trump used a rally in Asheville to attack Harris on the economy, blaming her for higher prices and Americans\u2019 financial struggles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But mostly, he has painted her as a progressive and dangerously liberal, and argues that she is an extension of Biden on the issues they previously attacked the president on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Harris has an overall 1-point lead over Trump across the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, according to a survey from the Cook Political Report Swing State Project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris has a 1.4 percentage point national lead over Trump based on 114 polls, according to The Hill\/Decision Desk HQ\u2019s national polling average.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Harris closes in on Trump in the polls, some Republicans suggest that the issue with the GOP strategy comes down to discipline, which they say Trump struggles with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s use a college football analogy. Portraying a California woman of color as a crazy liberal should be as easy as Alabama playing Western Kentucky in their first game,\u201d a former aide in the Bush administration said. \u201cBut it requires at least an 8th grader\u2019s level of message discipline to execute the game plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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