Countering Trump

Focus on his obvious frailties as a person.

His terrible hair, his unhealthy overweight body, his sickly orange skin, the smell that follows him around. His mental frailties, poor memory, barely passing a test for Alzheimer's and boasting about it.

His cowardice for dodging the draft, his poor business skills, so many failed businesses and bankruptcies, his disloyalty, so many of his former allies that he threw under the bus, he cheated on his wife, his taxes, paid for abortions, raped women, cheats at golf...

Show him up to be the small frail, incompetent bitter, whiney, stupid, old decrepit man that he is. And show how he actually hates America and democracy

Run multiple candidates to steal votes from Biden.

Yes, and just because Biden is also weak to some of those challenges, doesn't mean Biden shouldn't also use them against Trump.

Trump fans won't be turned on policy. They are emotionally connected to Trump and what they think he stands for. He needs to be shown for the embarrassment, the pathetic creature that he is.

While the most extremist trump fans will literally wear adult nappies to support him, the swing voters will be more easily turned off him if they associate him with all of the disgusting character and physical traits he has

You have to bait him

He could come out with anything in response or do anything in response

I would make sure to use small words and crayon drawings, because Trump voters are really, really stupid.

Thats not even joking. "Intelligent" campaign strategies are likely going to be too sophisticated for the types of people who currently worship Trump. They will go right over their heads.

Just take the inverse of Biden and run them against Trump. I'm serious. It would be best to have someone young and charismatic, a good public speaker and an all-around good communicator preferably handsome too. They need to understand and dissect all the standard right-wing conspiracies and talking points. They must understand the post-truth philosophy and all its implications. They can't be seen as "woke" (right-wing definition[s]) so no black, female lesbians for the foreseeable future. IMHO it's borderline criminal to be inserting people into the campaign based on how many diversity ticks they have instead of the singular matter of fighting back fascism and their ability to accomplish this. I'm lookin at you, Kamala Harris.

Stop with the identity politics.

they sort of need to, in the old days is was more class based, now the identity politics is falling apart , its obvious that plenty of minorities will vote Republican now

trump supporters seem to kinna like this kinna stuff, im not sure it would discourage them…

…its a bit of a mess really, a terrible opponent, and a country in complete disarray, both parties have done an enormous amount of damage to the country…..

Sorry that part of the post was intended as a tongue in cheek comment vs the rational comments that followed.

The shooter was a white male registered republican and member of the NRA. Hardly a democrat.

The way I see it is this election is Bidens to lose. Hopefully he does not but he needs to say and do what people here have said about how bad Trumps last term in office was and all the bad things about him.

Ah ok, I agree that someone like Obama would be needed to beat Trump now. Biden could have come out and stated that he wouldn't be running again last year and he would have been remembered as the guy who bet Trump and saved democracy. Instead, he'll be remembered as the guy who put his ego above all else and lost the presidency to Trump.

I can imagine a lot of Democrats wearing "Lets Go Brandon" shirts after November.

If you feel any of that is an incorrect assertion, please feel free to share. It's not a character assassination, it's an accurate assessment of who he is. The Biden campaign has been consistent in its messaging with respect to the economy. The sentiment among the US's allies couldn't be clearer as to their opinions of a 2nd Trump presidency. If Biden shares the stage with him for a debate, I would hope he hammers him repeatedly about his many, many criminal actions. Trump gets let off the hook constantly by the media, they don't push him to answer for what he's done. Biden needs to shut up and give Trump enough rope to hang himself.

Everytime Biden opens his mouth, he's risking disaster at this point, unfortunately.

In a discussion with a young U.S voter recently,they said they were voting for the lesser of 2 evils

I took that to mean Trump or it could have meant Biden ,I did not ask

With Harris (any relation to Simon ? 😁) now in the picture,do ya know,it's wide open,her productive rights question at one of Trumps supreme court nominee's hearings was iconic 'Sir do you know any point of U.S law that takes control of mens bodies ?"

There is no point even trying to reach hardcore MAGA cult and Trump himself is busy alienating the normal wing of the Republican Party and going ever more extreme

Target them and the policies they care about

As for Trump, troll him, he can barely contain himself, get him to implode and go off on his old man shouting at clouds rants

Gunk up the the hardcore MAGAs with so much non important crap that their heads implode and they get distracted from the prize which is those few dozen thousand people in key swing states that will win this election

You mentioned the word troll there - isn’t the way to beat a troll to ignore them? If you start to get into tit for tat arguements Shirley he’ll win in the long run - in addition, Harris or indeed most career politicians can’t play that game very well - they’ve campaigned on an issues basis all of their lives - mud slinging and the stuff Trump comes out with are all from the troll playbook- very clever stuff written by very clever people - you’d need to be on top of your game to nail them - my advice would be just go a different route- “it’s the economy stupid” and such like

you already look weak name calling - sorry 🤪

That's fine, I don't really care 😂

It's just pointing it out and moving on.

You know people will be more comfortable talking around the water cooler about how weird something is, instead of talking about how stupid/criminal/wrong something is.

wouldn’t bother - it just brings Harris down to his level - and Trump knows that - let their supporters troll each other on social media but Harris should keep above all of that.

If Kelly is picked as VP he’ll have a field day talking grown up things like the military - he can blow Trumps policies out of the water with legitimate background experience - no less sending off soldiers to certain death where he dodged the draft himself - things can get difficult for Trump and he knows it

I was going to say "Isn't that just preaching to the converted" but maybe that's the way to go at this stage. There's probably only a very small handful of genuine 'swing voters' out there and it's hard to know how Harris could truly 'reach out' to them without drastically diluting her message. Biden succeeded in swaying just about enough of those 'undecideds' in the swing states but Harris might be better advised to go all in on 'rallying the base'…

As an “imaginary campaign manager” for Harris I have identified few groups, each need their separate approaches

• ex Biden voters, these need to be treated with respect and reassured that the Bidenomics ship stay on course
• Single cat ladies, thanks to Vance a whole new category was created, get Taylor Swift endorsement
• double haters, these hated both Biden and Trump mainly for their age, appeal to this new segment in this election and point out Trumps age and lack of energy and declining mental state, they might still hate Harris but great potential in getting them to vote for least hated candidate
• undecided, mythical unicorns who somehow haven’t decided maybe due to being too busy working, address their primary issues which are economy, border and abortion in that order
• Disgruntled centrist republicans who hate Trump, make it clear that trump moved far to the loony right and your policies more closely align with them
• MAGA cult, troll them and tie them up in knots for months and keep them off ball and distracted (see hoopla over Paris) and more importantly trigger Trump and Vance to say even more **** that play well for getting other categories above