Republican attacks against President Biden have NOT significantly dented Biden neck and neck polling status with Donald Trump and Biden’s state by state good size lead against the guy he beat to get the White House….
So?
We have some GOPer’s turning to Vice President Harris as a target…….
(Haley is trying get SOMETHING going as her numbers ain’t too good)
Harris DOES have polling approval issues….
“This is really me running against Kamala Harris,” Haley said on Fox News.
Now some other GOP presidential contenders have begun to follow Haley’s lead in turning Harris into a prime target, with aligned outside groups featuring grainy images of the vice president’s face in their ads and candidates using her name in fundraising solicitations. But none has attacked Harris this cycle with the ferocity of Haley, whose small-dollar donations spiked in April when she first predicted that Biden would die before finishing a second term and Harris would replace him….
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In Harris, Haley, a former South Carolina governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, seems to have found the foil she wants. Her criticisms implicitly draw voters’ attention to the fact that Haley, 51, is the only woman in the GOP race, while allowing her to highlight the central premise of her candidacy — that it is time for Republican voters to embrace a younger generation of leaders like her.
The criticisms reflect the debate about the ages of Biden, 80, and Trump, 77. They have also enabled Haley to demonstrate toughness without directly attacking Trump as she tries to avoid alienating his supporters. And unlike the men in the race, Haley can rebuff accusations that her criticisms of Harris — the first woman of color to serve as vice president — are sexist or racist by pointing out that she, too, is a woman of color…..
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Haley’s volley of attacks on Harris, along with the increased willingness by other GOP contenders to go after the vice president, has renewed the debate over gender and sexism in the presidential race. Some Democrats assert that the Republicans would never target Harris this way if she were male.
image…San Francisco Chronicle