{"id":2325254,"date":"2024-08-15T17:02:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ignores-advisers-suggestion-he-steer-clear-of-personal-attacks-on-harris-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:04:04","slug":"trump-ignores-advisers-suggestion-he-steer-clear-of-personal-attacks-on-harris-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-ignores-advisers-suggestion-he-steer-clear-of-personal-attacks-on-harris-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump ignores adviser\u2019s suggestion he steer clear of personal attacks on Harris &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-ignores-advisers-suggestion-he-steer-clear-of-personal-attacks-on-harris-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2325254&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican presidential candidate, has advised ex-President Donald Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-former-friends-have-joined-the-fascists\/\" title=\"My Former Friends Have Joined the Fascists\">avoid personal attacks<\/a> in his campaign and instead focus on policy issues. Despite Ramaswamy&#8217;s\u200d recommendations, Trump\u2064 has continued to target\u200c Vice President Kamala Harris with insults, including calling her &#8220;crazy&#8221; and &#8220;stupid&#8221; at recent campaign events. Ramaswamy \u2063claimed that he had spoken\u2062 with Trump about \u200bthe need\u200d to shift his strategy after Harris announced her running mate, but Trump has largely ignored this advice. As Trump&#8217;s personal attacks persist, concerns about\u200d his campaign strategy grow, particularly as\u2064 polls indicate that Harris is closing the \u200bgap with \u2062him.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump ignores adviser&rsquo;s suggestion he steer clear of personal attacks on Harris<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1709757\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican presidential candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vivek-ramaswamy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> urged former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> to lighten up on the campaign insults, a suggestion the feisty GOP elder appears to have disregarded.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy said on Wednesday he had repeatedly spoken to Trump about focusing on policy, not personality. Ramaswamy also claimed the former president was &ldquo;receptive&rdquo; to his criticism and is starting to follow his counsel, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2024\/08\/15\/look-whos-pushing-for-a-trump-reset-00174134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>report<\/a> from <em>Politico<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy specifically referenced a call he made to Trump after Vice President Kamala Harris tapped Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) to be her running mate. The straight-talking Republican remembered telling Trump that this was his chance to &ldquo;shift the focus to policy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Vivek Ramaswamy gives a thumbs up as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event Tuesday, June 18, 2024, in Racine, Wisconsin. (AP Photo\/Jeffrey Phelps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But since Walz made his entrance into the race, Trump hasn&rsquo;t appeared to hold back on personal attacks against the vice president.<\/p>\n<p>Just a day after Walz made his entrance into the race, Trump called Harris &ldquo;crazy&rdquo; and ridiculed her for &ldquo;giving the same exact speech over and over&rdquo; during a campaign rally in Montana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You know she got about nine different ways of pronouncing the name,&rdquo; Trump told crowds as he joked about how he deliberately pronounces the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carson-points-out-that-every-democratic-plan-has-backfired-in-trumps-favor-as-seen-in-the-bible-2\/\" title=\"Carson points out that every Democratic plan has backfired in Trump&#039;s favor, as seen in the Bible\">vice president&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s name incorrectly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While Trump polls ahead of Harris in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-beats-biden-in-4-national-polls-despite-being-indicted-and-skipping-gop-debate\/\" title=\"Despite being indicted and skipping the GOP debate, Trump emerges as the winner in four national polls against Biden.\">major national surveys<\/a>, the vice president has shrunk his lead and stoked fears in the GOP camp that Trump needs to adjust his campaign strategy. <\/p>\n<p>Despite Ramaswamy&rsquo;s admonition to the former president, this week, it was the same Trump during an Asheville, North Carolina, campaign stop. On Wednesday, Trump called Harris &ldquo;stupid&rdquo; as he mocked her laugh.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For nearly four years, Kamala has crackled as the American economy has burned,&rdquo; Trump said as his supporters chuckled. &ldquo;What happened to her laugh?&rdquo; he questioned. &ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t heard that laugh in about a week! That&rsquo;s why they keep her off the stage; that&rsquo;s why she&rsquo;s disappeared.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;Her laugh is career-threatening,&rsquo; they said &mdash; &lsquo;don&rsquo;t laugh,&rsquo;&rdquo; Trump continued, boosted by the cheering audience. &ldquo;She doesn&rsquo;t laugh anymore. It&rsquo;s smart, but someday it&rsquo;s going to come out. That&rsquo;s the laugh of a person with some big problems.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy ran a brief primary race against Trump this election cycle before dropping his bid in January. Since then, he&rsquo;s given the former president a hearty endorsement and has become one of his top surrogates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now he&rsquo;s one of many Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3119736\/kellyanne-conway-presses-trump-fewer-insults-bid-winning-formula\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>urging<\/a> Trump to drop verbal slurs in favor of meaty debates.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see,&rdquo; former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said earlier this week.&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s fewer insults, more insights, and that policy contrast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy on Wednesday sounded urgent as he warned Republicans would lose the election if Trump ignored warnings. If the GOP stays focused on policy distinctions, &ldquo;I think we win,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;And if not, I think we lose.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1709757\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1709757\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump dismisses adviser&#8217;s advice to avoid personal attacks on Harris. Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy encouraged Donald Trump to tone down his campaign insults, but it seems the outspoken GOP figure has chosen not to heed this advice. Ramaswamy mentioned on Wednesday that he had consistently urged Trump to concentrate on policy issues rather than personal jabs. He also claimed that Trump was &#8220;receptive&#8221; to his feedback and was beginning to take it into account, as reported by Politico. Ramaswamy specifically recalled a conversation he had with Trump after Vice President Kamala Harris selected Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate, suggesting it was an opportunity for Trump to shift the focus toward policy.<\/p>\n<p>However, since Walz entered the race, Trump has continued his pattern of personal attacks against Harris. Just a day after Walz&#8217;s announcement, at a rally in Montana, Trump referred to Harris as &#8220;crazy&#8221; and mocked her for repeating the same speech multiple times. He joked about mispronouncing her name in front of the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>While polls show Trump leading over Harris nationally, she has narrowed that gap and raised concerns within GOP circles about Trump&#8217;s campaign strategy needing adjustment. Despite Ramaswamy&#8217;s counsel earlier this week during a campaign event in Asheville, North Carolina, Trump called Harris &#8220;stupid&#8221; while imitating her laugh and criticized her absence from public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy briefly ran against Trump in this election cycle before withdrawing in January but later endorsed him and became one of his key supporters. He is among several Republicans advocating for a shift away from insults towards more substantial debates on policies.<\/p>\n<p>Former adviser Kellyanne Conway echoed this sentiment earlier this week by stating that Trump&#8217;s winning strategy should involve fewer insults and more insightful discussions contrasting policies. Ramaswamy expressed urgency regarding Trump&#8217;s approach; he warned that if Republicans do not prioritize policy differences, they risk losing the election: \u201cIf we stay focused on policy distinctions&#8230; I think we win; if not&#8230; I think we lose.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":2325255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/V.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18677,4021,38266,3634],"class_list":["post-2325254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-advisers","tag-harris","tag-personal-attacks","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/V.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}