{"id":2358767,"date":"2024-10-24T06:09:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-revives-biden-campaign-strategy-after-hitler-october-surprise-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T06:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T10:10:51","slug":"harris-revives-biden-campaign-strategy-after-hitler-october-surprise-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-revives-biden-campaign-strategy-after-hitler-october-surprise-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris revives Biden campaign strategy after \u2018Hitler\u2019 October surprise &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fharris-revives-biden-campaign-strategy-after-hitler-october-surprise-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=2358767&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>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newly-sworn-in-utah-rep-celeste-maloy-already-faces-possible-gop-2024-challenger\/\" title=\"Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy may have a GOP challenger for 2024\">recent political shift<\/a>, Vice President \u2063Kamala Harris has decided to refocus her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nc-dem-senate-challenger-votes-against-bipartisan-school-reopening-bill\/\" title=\"NC Dem Senate Challenger Votes Against Bipartisan School Reopening Bill\">campaign strategy<\/a> by emphasizing the character and fitness of Donald Trump \u2063as he emerges as the\u200d 2024 Republican \u200bpresidential nominee. Citing\u200b comments made by Trump&#8217;s former chief of staff, John Kelly, Harris \u200baccused Trump \u200cof desiring \u2062a military that is loyal to him\u2063 rather \u200cthan the Constitution, drawing troubling comparisons to authoritarian figures like Adolf Hitler. This marks a significant departure from her previous messaging that leaned away \u2063from the January 6 Capitol riot narrative. <\/p>\n<p>Harris plans to use Trump&#8217;s temperament and potential for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dojs-top-national-security-lawyer-slammed-investigation-into-government-wrongdoing-in-surveillance-of-trump-aide\/\" title=\"DOJ\u2019s Top National Security Lawyer Slammed Investigation Into Government Wrongdoing in Surveillance of Trump Aide\">government abuse<\/a>\u2062 as key themes to attract \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-poll-shows-drive-to-recall-gov-newsom-gained-traction-in-past-2-weeks\/\" title=\"New Poll Shows Drive To Recall Gov. Newsom Gained Traction In Past 2 Weeks\">undecided voters<\/a>, particularly those who may be dissatisfied with her and\u2064 President Joe Biden but are wary of a Trump \u200bpresidency. Despite previous focuses on\u2063 positivity and economic issues, this new strategy raises \u200dquestions about whether Democrats are feeling the pressure of losing ground in the race. The White House has also supported Harris&#8217;s alignment with Kelly&#8217;s characterization of\u200d Trump as a fascist,\u2063 underlining the ongoing \u200ctension in American politics as the election approaches. Critics warn that this approach\u2062 may\u2064 alienate\u200c economically struggling voters and reinforce conspiracy theories among Trump&#8217;s supporters regarding electoral integrity.  <\/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\">Harris revives Biden campaign strategy after &lsquo;Hitler&rsquo; October surprise<\/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_1843689\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Adolf Hitler has entered the 2024 presidential race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> former chief of staff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-kelly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Kelly<\/a>, a retired four-star general, confirmed that while Donald Trump was president, he said he wanted &lsquo;generals like Adolf Hitler had,&rsquo;&rdquo; Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3200432\/harris-calls-impromptu-address-vp-residence-trump-hitler\/\">impromptu appearance<\/a> on Wednesday.&nbsp;&ldquo;Donald Trump said that because he does not want a military that is loyal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>United States Constitution<\/a>. He wants a military that is loyal to him. He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders even when he tells them to break the law or abandon their oath to the Constitution of the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest sign that Harris plans to make Trump&rsquo;s fitness for office a major theme of her presidential campaign in the days leading up to the election, with an address planned early next week in Washington on the Ellipse that is being billed as her &ldquo;closing argument.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This is a departure for Harris, who had moved away from a heavy focus on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot after replacing President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a> at the top of the Democratic ticket. Many Democrats feared Biden and top aide Mike Donilon were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/06\/19\/biden-faith-campaign-mike-donilon-2024-election\">misreading the electorate <\/a>by framing the election as a defense of democracy even before the June 27 debate chased the president out of the race. Biden&rsquo;s camp was adamant that this issue helped prevent bigger losses for their party in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterm-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>2022 midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3189720\/election-2024-mail-in-voting-ballot-tracking\/\"><strong>ELECTION 2024: WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT MAIL-IN VOTING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris, however, is turning to Trump&rsquo;s temperament and potential to abuse government power as she tries to reach the last undecided voters. Many of these voters are skeptical of Harris and dissatisfied with Biden&rsquo;s performance in office, but also have fears of what might happen if Trump is returned to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps after focusing on the economy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3191777\/joy-eludes-harris-high-stakes-fox-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>joy<\/a>, and positive vibes, Harris can now get late deciders to break against Trump by raising these concerns. Harris also needs to bring down Trump&rsquo;s favorability ratings, which are generally higher than in 2016 or 2020, and in one Gallup poll are higher than her own.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the change in messaging, like Harris&rsquo;s sudden resort to major media interviews in the closing weeks of the campaign, raises questions about whether Democrats fear they are now losing the race.<\/p>\n<p>The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3200671\/white-house-biden-agrees-trump-fascist\/\">confirmed<\/a> on Wednesday that Biden agrees with Kelly&rsquo;s characterization of his former boss, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, as a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It&rsquo;s a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy,&rdquo; Kelly told the <em>New York Times<\/em>. &ldquo;So certainly, in my experience, those are the kinds of things that he thinks would work better in terms of running America.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>There are risks inherent in embracing Kelly&rsquo;s October surprise and running a reductio ad Hitlerum campaign less than two weeks out from Election Day. The biggest is that it is not a promise to economically beleaguered voters that they will materially benefit from a Harris presidency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The second is that a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">bipartisan establishment full-court press<\/a>, with Harris enlisting everyone from Kelly to Liz Cheney, against Trump appears to confirm what many of his supporters already believe. Why, they ask, wouldn&rsquo;t the deep state rig the election against the second coming of Hitler?<\/p>\n<p>Unlike when Biden first took up the mantle of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/534713\/the-definition-of-fascism-biden-uses-f-word-to-describe-trump-republicans\/\">opposing MAGA fascism<\/a>, Trump has been the subject of two assassination attempts. In the first one in Butler, Pennsylvania, the former president was actually shot in the ear.<\/p>\n<p>The lateness of this message also could appear cynical to voters. Harris has been happily campaigning alongside celebrities, smiling and joking, since leapfrogging Biden. Is that the proper way to run against a possible fascist takeover?<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also already been president. While Jan. 6 is clearly an event that happened and will dissuade a certain number of voters from supporting him again, the military did not persecute Democrats and journalists during his first term.<\/p>\n<p>A key question is whether there are enough remaining voters who share this level of anxiety about Trump who are not already in Harris&rsquo;s camp. Harris&rsquo;s campaign is behaving as if they believe this can be answered in the affirmative.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump is increasingly unhinged and unstable. In a second term, people like John Kelly would not be there to be the guardrails against his propensities and his actions,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;Those who once tried to stop him from pursuing his worst impulses would no longer be there to rein him in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He called it what it is,&rdquo; White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\">Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> told reporters after Biden used the term &ldquo;semifascist&rdquo; in 2022. &ldquo;Many historians would agree with us.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\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_1843689\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1843689\"}});<\/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>Harris revives Biden&#8217;s campaign strategy after &#8216;Hitler&#8217; surprise<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2659,"featured_media":2358768,"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\/10\/Kamala-Harris-Trump-Hitler.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,35835,4021],"class_list":["post-2358767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-campaign-strategy","tag-harris"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kamala-Harris-Trump-Hitler.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358767","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\/2659"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2358768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}