Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, said the former president would “finally” put Vice President Kamala Harris’s record in the spotlight during Tuesday night’s debate.
Leavitt argued that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said what the Harris campaign “doesn’t want the American people to know” during an interview on Sunday, being that Harris is “a typical career politician who lies to get elected.” During Sanders’s interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, the Vermont senator argued Harris is not abandoning her ideals and is doing “what she thinks is right in order to win the election.”
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Welker: “Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?”
Bernie: “I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.” pic.twitter.com/qtwmgui7vd
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 8, 2024
“And she is trying to run away from her record over the past four years, but she can’t because it is the Harris-Biden administration,” Leavitt said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends. “Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaking vote to create inflation. Kamala Harris is the border czar — she has allowed an invasion of more than 20 million illegals into this country. President Trump will finally hold her accountable for the failures of the past four years and also her failures throughout her entire career, dating back to her time as attorney general from California and her time as a district attorney from San Francisco.”
Harris has reversed her views on several key policies since becoming the Democratic Party’s 2024 presidential candidate, including no longer wanting to ban fracking and wanting to secure the southern border.
Leavitt also argued that former President Donald Trump is “well prepared” for Tuesday night’s debate, detailing how he is “very well read” on her political record. One strategy that Trump will use during the debate, Leavitt revealed, will be to ask Harris why she does not enact the change she is campaigning on, as she is already in office as vice president.
Leavitt acknowledged there is some concern the debate could be biased against Trump, stating that Linsey Davis, one of the debate’s moderators, had recently compared Trump rallies to events for the Ku Klux Klan. However, she added that Trump is aware he is going into “a hostile environment” with this debate and that he will emerge “very successful” after it.
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Tuesday night’s debate on ABC News will also be moderated by network anchor David Muir. The 90-minute debate will have two commercial breaks and air at 9 p.m. Eastern time.
On Sunday, Ben Carson, who worked as secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration, argued Harris “needs to be told” what her policies are ahead of the debate. He also predicted Trump would run on his past policies in this debate, whereas Harris would attempt to distance herself from the Biden administration’s policies.