Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair Lara Trump said on Sunday she thought Democrats focused too much on bashing former President Trump during last week’s convention and should have spent more time outlining their policy goals.
Lara Trump, in an interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures,” drew a distinction between the two major parties’ national conventions.
“We were very proud of the Republican National Convention. I think what people saw with our convention is that you actually saw a path forward for this country. You saw Donald Trump and people every single night of our convention lay out how we are going to make life better for you. I didn't hear a single night of anybody talk at the DNC about that,” said Lara Trump, who is also the former president’s daughter-in-law.
“You saw unity with our party from the RNC. You had a very positive feeling coming out of that,” she added.
Lara Trump described the Democratic National Convention, however, as “a lot of Trump-hating.”
“It seems like they're attempting to run on hating Donald Trump, on platitudes, on vibes, and on emotion,” she said. “That is not going to put food on the table for the people of this country. That is not going to bring down your gas prices. That is not going to get us out of wars around the world.”
“Donald Trump had a plan. He put it in place in 2016 when he won that election. He has done this job before, and we demonstrated at our convention how he would do it again. You haven't heard a single thing from the Democrats on the other side,” she added.
Her remarks echo a sentiment that Trump, himself, expressed last week, saying it was “pretty sad” that Democrats chose to focus on him in several speeches at the Democratic National Convention, including in former President Obama’s.
The Hill has reached out to the Harris campaign for a response.
The interview comes as Democrats have been riding a wave of good feelings fueled by last week's four-day Chicago gathering. The enthusiasm behind it has prompted comparisons to the energy around Obama's landmark 2008 presidential bid.
The momentum that Democrats feel marks a significant reversal from Republicans' advantage in the race at the time of their convention last month, when Democrats were still reeling from Biden's disastrous debate performance, and Trump had just survived an assassination attempt.
Since then, Harris’s polling average has been improving. According to the national polling average from The Hill and Decision Desk HQ, Harris now leads by 3.6 percentage points, 49.5 percent to Trump’s 45.9 percent.
