Former President Donald Trump and his supporters were enraged about President Joe Biden exiting the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him, after a long and carefully crafted strategy built up over the last several months to attack Biden as infirm and incapable of executing the duties of office.
But in their rush to attack Harris, they tripped over themselves, warned former GOP presidential candidate turned Trump surrogate Vivek Ramaswamy in a post on X — and muddling up their own message in a way that will fall flat with voters.
"Time for our side to wake up to some hard realities, fast," he wrote. First, "Stop calling on Biden to step down or to be forced out. That will just give Kamala all the benefits of running as an incumbent U.S. President. And she won’t be any better for America in the next 5 months than Biden will be."
Second, he warned, "Stop attacking Kamala for locking up too many people as a prosecutor. It lends credibility to the otherwise ridiculous claim that she’s a 'law-and-order' candidate."
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Additionally, he pleaded, "Stop saying that Kamala covered up to help Biden, while also saying that Kamala staged a coup to overthrow Biden. It doesn’t make sense to say both at once. And if we say things that don’t make sense, we will lose votes."
This comes as the GOP tries to push both of these theories out, with Trump pushing the "coup" claim and House Republicans going for the idea she covered up Biden's struggles.
Ultimately, he said, the biggest problem for Republicans is the risk that "we get distracted & forget to offer our own vision for the future of the United States of America."
This comes after Trump delivered a furious speech to Turning Point USA in Florida, where he tried out a number of attacks on Harris as he scrambles to regain his campaign footing.
