Former Trump 2016 campaign manager Kellyanne Conway is out with a new column noting that this year’s presidential race is former President Donald Trump’s “race to lose.”
Conway starts the Daily Mail column by acknowledging that Trump originally had the election in the bag.
“After besting President Biden in CNN’s debate, surviving an assassination attempt, and presiding – just days later – over a triumphant Republican National Convention, Trump’s poll numbers skyrocketed, and the presidency seemed firmly within his reach,” she writes.
That changed slightly, she admits after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed Harris as his successor. The good news, Conway writes, is that, despite pressure from the outside, Trump responded to the endorsement by sticking to his plan.
“Frantic calls from Republican donors and screaming headlines from unfriendly media outlets urged him to change course, or even replace his running mate J.D. Vance and fire his campaign team,” she writes. “Trump smartly resisted those entreaties, sticking to the plan, expressing faith in his team, and expanding – not expunging – personnel.”
Conway continues by rebuffing claims that there’s been a “breakdown” in Trump’s campaign because of Harris’s entrance into the picture.
“I know because in our weekly phone calls and during regular visits, I detect the same energy, alacrity, and winning focus that I’ve witnessed by his side for years – first as his final 2016 campaign manager and later serving as a senior counselor in his White House,” she notes.
“That fighting spirit the entire world saw in those spontaneous, iconic moments after he was shot in Butler – his blood-stained face and fist assuring us that he will not back down – was real,” she adds.
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Meanwhile, nobody’s talking about the Democrats’ own internal breakdown, Conway notes.
“For all the hoopla and hot air (balloons included) at the Democrat National Convention in Chicago last month, the air was thick with hypocrisy, as attendees tripped over themselves to praise and promote Harris, who just weeks before had been viewed as unsteady on the job and unready for a promotion,” she writes.
“Indeed, as Harris is fast finding out, ‘vibes’ do not equal votes. ‘Joy’ cannot feed, clothe, or shelter a family, stop the bloodshed in Ukraine or Israel, secure the Southern border, rescue children trapped in failing schools, or distract from the $5 trillion dollar tax hikes Biden and Harris have aimed squarely at the assets of middle-class Americans,” she adds.
And thus Conway arrives at a bombshell conclusion — that “[t]he same policy advantages Trump had over Biden persist over Harris,” meaning there’s no reason he shouldn’t go on to crush her in the race.
Especially considering the polls.
“A recent CBS poll found that roughly two-thirds of Americans say the country has veered off on the wrong track – and that they disapprove of the current administration’s handling of the economy, of border security, and of the Israel-Hamas war,” Conway notes.
“The latest Fox News and Quinnipiac polls show Trump is preferred over Harris when it comes to handling those issues in all of the key swing states,” she adds.
But, she writes, there are a few things Trump needs to do, starting with dumping Biden and focusing exclusively on Harris.
“This is the Harris Administration,” Conway writes. “Feeling more pressure and less prosperous? She did that. Upset that 10 million migrants and enough fentanyl to kill every American many times over have poured into the country? Kamala.”
Next, Trump “must hit Harris with policy – not just personal attacks.”
“Trump famously refers to himself as a counterpuncher,” she writes. “And certainly, he has the right to respond to the relentless invective hurled his way by Democrats and their adjuncts in the media. Still, his greatest advantage over Harris is policy performance, not personal peeves.”
True.
And third, the former president should “lean into his ‘personality’ as tough, resolute and decisive.”
“Taking out al-Baghdadi and Soleimani, ending the ISIS caliphate, recalibrating trade deals, energy independence and no new wars, restoring the economy and making our southern border more secure, supporting parents’ rights, respecting workers, backing the blue and Border Patrol – these are all verifiable successes that voters want on rewind,” she writes.
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