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Where to Go From “Weird”

Kamala Harris’s campaign has stumbled onto something with its Trump dismissal.

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Aug 02, 2024
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by Timothy Noah

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Writing in Axios, Alex Thompson reports that Vice President Kamala Harris and her top advisers—let’s call them Kamalot—have discarded, as the campaign’s principal theme, the threat that former President Donald Trump poses to democracy. This is excellent news, because fearmongering wasn’t working.

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