Since announcing her candidacy, Harris has erased the lead Trump once maintained against Joe Biden and is even leading the former president in multiple polling averages. According to a report from Puck’s Tara Palmeri, Trump is frustrated because his campaign has not been able to make a more meaningful impact on voters.
PALMERI: There were a lot of thoughts within Trump world that he would not actually do this ABC news debate. They didn’t see an upside to doing it. I think the fact that Kamala Harris hasn’t done a press conference or really talked to the press at all in the past few weeks, has made Trump really eager to be able to get in front of her one on one. And he’s hoping for some sort of like unforced error, a slip up, some sort of unscripted moment, and he’s willing to throw himself into the fire to make sure that happens. So, yeah, he’s he’s willing to do what I was told, you know, weeks ago he was not open to doing it all. He did not want to do a debate. He felt like it would be, a more difficult debate at ABC news. He was maybe willing to do it on Fox, but he’s even suggested more dates, which shows how desperate he is to really get Kamala Harris in a position where he thinks she’ll be uncomfortable. This is obviously a deeply, seated belief that he has that she can’t handle unprompted interactions.
SIDNER: You have some reporting also, that Donald Trump is considering bringing in a name that the country learned, back in 2016, Kellyanne Conway, back into the fold. What are you learning?
PALMERI: So as we have seen, the campaign reset really isn’t happening. It’s or at least it’s been a very rocky launch. They aren’t really quite recalibrating. Trump seems to be stuck with the you know, he’s stuck on the fact that he’s not running against Joe Biden anymore. And he realized he has a very different candidate, a new type of person to take on, and he doesn’t feel as comfortable with the direction, that his prior team has been going.
And they’ve been focused on Joe Biden, and he has a bit of nostalgia and recalls the days in 2016 when Kellyanne Conway, who has been his long time adviser, who, by the way, is still on retainer with the RNC, for political strategy. How he was able to help her out, how she was able to help him essentially go after Hillary Clinton.
So he thinks that she would be the right person to bring on. Lara Trump, who is a co-chair at the RNC, is behind this as well. They’ve been talking, over the weekend. And this wouldn’t be you know, Kellyanne takes over for Susie Wiles and she’s out. He also, appreciates Susie Wiles, her work and her guidance. So they’d probably be it’d be more of a lateral move. But, I think Trump at this point thinks that fresh blood might help him in this moment when he’s really stagnant.
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