Politico has a piece that states the obvious as a surprise?
Speaker after speaker at the convention touches on it…
Beating Donald Trump IS the MAIN GOAL of Harris/Walz and the Democratic Party…
While media editors keep trying to get Harris to move to policy so they can pick at it?
Harris has astutely avoided doingso in detail…
Donald Trump IS the TARGET…
Harris/Walz and Democrats ARE staying on THAT…
Countering his Bigger than Life media run up to now…
Donald Trump IS a target rich environment …
Democrats ARE selling ‘Hope and a Move Forward’ from a guy who is selling a Broken America to those who want to go Backwards….
Over two days in Chicago, Democrats have laced into Trump repeatedly, criticizing everything from his character to his legal problems to his policy proposals, including his management of the Covid pandemic. Former President Barack Obama even joked about Trump’s “weird obsession with crowd sizes.”
And they are quite literally throwing the book at him. Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow on Monday brought with her on stage a hulking Project 2025 book — an oversized prop, visible from the cheap seats of the arena, designed to amplify the Heritage Foundation’s controversial blueprint for the next Republican administration that Trump has sought to distance himself from. A different speaker is bringing out the book every night, with Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta trotting out the over 900-page tome on Tuesday.
Democrats may no longer be running with President Joe Biden, a candidate whose raison d’etre for the twilight of his political career was to defeat Trump. But their convention is laying bare the party’s calculation that excoriating the Republican standard-bearer is a strategy worth sticking with….
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But many Democrats are betting that the threat of a second Trump term remains as potent a motivator for voters — both the party activists at the convention and the millions more Americans watching from home — as it did in 2020. Or when the specter of Trump helped power the party in the midterms in 2018 and 2022.
Over the first two days of their convention, prominent Democrats and rising party stars have used primetime speaking slots to deliver dire warnings about another Trump presidency and to reinforce his character flaws. Obama said Trump “has not stopped whining since he rode down his golden escalator nine years ago.” Former first lady Michelle Obama accused Trump of “demonizing our children for being who they are and loving who they love.”…
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Tuesday said Trump “peddles in anti-Semitic stereotypes” and “fuels islamophobia.”
Future generations, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the country said, “deserve better than Donald Trump’s American carnage.”….
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In Chicago, Democrats across more than half a dozen interviews in and around their convention argued that they need to draw contrast with Trump so that Americans understand the stakes of the November election — and because it is what motivates their voters.
Rep. Ann McLane Kuster (D-N.H.), the chair of the center-left New Democrat Coalition who is working with dozens of battleground Democrats in the third straight election with Trump atop the ticket, said candidates need to strike a balance to win over GOP voters in ticket-splitting seats.
Her party’s most potent strategy to do so: Let Trump be Trump.
“Right now, just let him speak for himself, like there’s nothing that we can say that’s even dark enough to get to the place where he is,” Kuster said. “Just let him be, and we will present a more positive view.”
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