Attack Kamala Harris and Joe Biden

WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s election campaign is relying on Plan B.

After years of running against President Joe Biden, Trump’s campaign team is now gearing up to fight another Democratic opponent, most likely Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump aides declined to provide details of the strategy on Sunday in the hours following Biden’s withdrawal announcement, but in recent days they confirmed the general idea: attack both Harris and Biden.

In addition to the ads linking Harris to border security – she was in charge of immigration during Biden’s presidency – the Trump campaign also indicated that it would argue that Biden should resign and that the Democrats as a party should be held accountable for everything that happened.

“He is not fit to hold the post,” Trump told Fox News Digital just minutes after Biden’s announcement. “And I ask: Who is going to run the country for the next five months?”

More:Joe Biden drops out of the 2024 race and supports Kamala Harris

The Harris campaign against Trump

Democrats pointed out that as a former prosecutor, Harris could more easily exploit Trump’s legal problems – from his conviction in the New York hush money trial to a civil judgment in which he was found guilty of sexual abuse.

Others pointed out that Harris is the first black woman to hold the office of vice president and predicted that Trump’s refocused campaign would also rely on race and gender.

“Expect racist and misogynistic undertones from the Trump campaign for the rest of the campaign,” said Rodell Mollineau, a former spokesman and senior adviser to the late Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).

During the convention last week, Trump and his allies said they were developing a campaign plan against Harris that would include attack ads about her years as vice president and attorney general of California. (One possible Democratic countermeasure: Trump actually donated $5,000 to Harris’s re-election campaign in 2011.)

The Trump campaign team has already begun internal polls for a Trump-Harris duel. Officials did not want to release any data; in his brief CNN interview, Trump claimed that Harris would be easier to beat than Biden.

At the Republican convention in Milwaukee, speaker after speaker criticized both Harris and Biden for illegal border crossings and high inflation rates.

Binding Harris to Biden

It is safe to assume that Trump and his surrogates will continue to link Harris to Biden, including in terms of how she might replace him at the top of the Democratic ticket.

“If Democrats rally behind Harris, expect Trump to say this was an inside job by party bosses to undermine democracy,” said pollster Frank Luntz.

Senator Steve Daines (R-Mt.), chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, pointed out that not a single Democratic leader has called on Biden to resign from the presidency and for Harris to succeed him in the Oval Office.

“That leads me to believe they consider her unfit to serve as commander in chief,” Daines said.

Democrats said Trump and his running mate JD Vance would need a new strategy.

Joe Trippi, a longtime Democratic consultant who ran Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign, said Biden is passing the torch not just to Harris but to “an entirely new generation of leaders in the Democratic Party.”

Trippi said, “The eyes of the nation are now on the future, and that is a fight that Trump, JD Vance, MAGA and Project 2025 will not win.”

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