Peter Nicholas is a senior White House reporter for NBC News.
CHICAGO — A goal of every presidential campaign is to get voters to size up the opponent and, repulsed, decide, “No way.” President Joe Biden’s approach was to persuade the electorate that Donald Trump is a national menace. Kamala Harris is instead casting Trump as Dennis the Menace. The Harris campaign and her Democratic allies have set out to downsize Trump, pushing the idea that he’s a bumbling, cartoonish figure who’s not so much fearsome as he is laughable.
It’s not within his character to ridicule or make fun of people. It’s not how he fights.” Harris, he added, is someone with “rock star status” who has shown she’s able “to communicate with younger people.” While serving in the Senate, Harris, Schatz and other generational peers like Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., would exchange “sassy texts” poking fun at their “old school” colleagues, he said. “She’s irreverent and fun and not very self-serious and occasionally sarcastic,” Schatz added.
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