Kamala Harris changed the dynamics of the Presidential election with her late entrance.
The GOP is trying to regain its footing after being caught off guard.
And Vivek Ramaswamy gave Donald Trump one message that forced him to take notice.
Vivek Ramaswamy has a message to get Trump back on track
Former President Donald Trump looked like he was on his way to a decisive victory against President Joe Biden coming out of the Republican National Convention in July.
The surging campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris has shaken up the race.
She’s been the beneficiary of a media hype train and Democrats who are reinvigorated with a new Presidential candidate.
That’s let her surge to a lead in some national polling and in the crucial swing states that will decide the election.
Right now, the race is a coin flip either way.
Trump needs to reset his campaign and get back on track for the homestretch of the election that kicks off after Labor Day.
Entrepreneur and former Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told POLITICO that Trump needs to focus on Kamala’s record on immigration and the economy and ditch the personal attacks.
He said that Republicans not attacking Kamala for her failed record is a “missed opportunity.”
Her support for far-left policies like banning fracking and making private health insurance illegal gives Republicans a treasure trove of issues to attack her on.
A clear contrast for voters on the future of America
Ramaswamy explained that the Trump campaign and Republicans need to contrast their policies with Kamala’s for voters.
“I think if we’re able to say . . . ‘This is our vision for the entire United States’ . . . then we go down the list and say, ‘Here are the policies that Kamala Harris has [not only] stood for in the past but that she has actually taken steps to implement’ . . . I think we can win this thing not only by a small margin, but still in something that resembles a landslide,” Ramaswamy explained.
Republicans are going to have to do the heavy lifting of prosecuting the case against Kamala.
“But that’s not up to anybody else but us,” Ramaswamy said. “And so that’s the work we have cut out for our own side. And if we do it, I think we win. And if not, I think we lose.”
Ramaswamy said that he’s given this message to Trump several times and the former President is “receptive.”
He added that Kamala picking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate gave the GOP a chance to shift the discussion to policy.
“That is the first Presidential-style decision that we’ve actually seen her make,” Ramaswamy said. “She could have gone the direction of a centrist, a moderate like [Pennsylvania Governor] Josh Shapiro. She didn’t. She made an affirmative decision to say, I want to go in the direction of somebody who has instead increased taxes in the states that he led . . . at least helped fuel a wave of violent rioting and protesting in his state, one of the most climate policy-forward Governors.”
There’s evidence that Trump has taken this message to heart.
He held a rally that was focused on the economy and his second-term agenda in Asheville, North Carolina.
Kamala Harris’ far-left record provides ample ammunition to attack her on.
