'Conjure the medieval nightmare': Experts say Harris must now terrify voters about Trump
Vice President Kamala Harris has one campaign tactic left that she needs to use against former President Donald Trump before it's too late, Maureen Dowd argued Saturday in her New York Times editorial.
The time is past for Harris to conduct sit-down interviews and reveal policy platforms reveals — and the time is here for the Democratic presidential nominee to do something else, political consultant James Carville told Dowd.
"They have to hit hard — pronto," Carville said. "She should scare the crap out of voters."
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A campaign message suggestion: "Trump is just taunting us, having a rally at Madison Square Garden just like the Nazis did in 1939."
Carville argued Harris' recent appearances on “60 Minutes” and “The View” did little to move the needle and proved that the time had come to stop answering questions and start asking them.
Specifically, he argued Harris should slam Sen. J.D. Vance's suggestion that Trump — and not former President Barack Obama — could take credit for the Affordable Care Act's success and Trump's problematic promises to bump up tariffs.
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"She should ask: 'Do you know how destructive tariffs can be?" Carville said. "They will kill your freaking jobs.”
Dowd echoed Carville's high-stakes rhetoric when she suggested to Harris a abortion rights line she argued could woo white women voters away from the former president and Republican presidential nominee.
"As a woman, she can conjure the medieval nightmare that Trump and Vance threaten," Dowd argued. "As Carville says, we need less mulling and more action in a do-or-die moment. She needs to do so we don’t die."