In the final few days of the campaign, candidates try to offer a “closing message” that they believe will resonate with any remaining undecided voters. Kamala Harris gave a speech outlining her version of that message on Tuesday, which went like this: Donald Trump wants to be president so he can order the military to imprison his enemies, while I want to be president to do normal Democratic president things. .
The Trump campaign, as always, is approaching things more creatively.
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• Howard Lutnick, a financial industry CEO and co-chair of the Trump White House transition planning team, appeared on CNN on Wednesday and said that if Trump wins, anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be given access to government data that could To use it to “withdraw” vaccines “from the market.” Kennedy claimed for years, on the basis of questionable evidence, that vaccinations caused autism, and he participated in an anti-vaccination campaign in American Samoa that led to the deaths of 83 people, “mostly young children,” from measles.
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• Trump said, during a meeting Thursday with Tucker Carlson, that he would assign Kennedy “to work in the field of health and women’s health.” This is, frankly, an ominous promise: Among the stories about Robert Kennedy Jr. and women that circulated during the campaign were decade-old reports of a diary in which he recorded his then-wife cheating 37 times in one year, in the present. Accusations that he helped break up an engagement to a journalist who covered for him by “sexting” her, and a Vanity Fair article in which a woman who worked for him as a nanny said he repeatedly harassed and sexually touched her without her consent. (Kennedy Jr. does not appear to have commented on the memoirs and denied having an inappropriate relationship with the journalist. He responded to the Vanity Fair report by saying that such behavior was typical of his “rambunctious youth,” even though the alleged events at the time were and he happened to have been married at The 45-year-old with five children later apologized to the woman in question via text message in which he said he had “no memory” of behaving inappropriately towards her. On Wednesday, Trump also said he would do so when he became president. “Protecting” the women of the United States “whether the women like it or not.”
• At another point during Carlson’s event, Trump said the following about former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, who dropped her support for the former president after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and campaigned with Harris:
It’s an extreme war hawk. Let’s put it with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at it, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when guns are pointed at her face.
The comment was ostensibly about Cheney’s support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, which Trump said he supported (and referred to as a “tremendous success”) before he became unpopular and began claiming he was against it. The idea seemed to be that Cheney was a “chicken hawk” because she was advocating for wars in which she herself was not involved, but the idea quickly veered into a kind of fictional firing squad scenario, didn’t it?
The Harris campaign reportedly believes that undecided moderate women are the group with the best chance of making gains in the final days of the campaign. The Trump campaign clearly doesn’t believe that, or at least believes some strange things about what hesitant moderate women want to hear.
