# How will the Republicans demonize Kamala Harris? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** kamala-harris\ **Created:** [July 23, 2024, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698 "2024-07-23T17:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/221 "2024-07-28T13:21:25Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Rules for thee but not for me: [![](https://i.imgur.com/mF6jb3A.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/mF6jb3A.png) . [![](https://i.imgur.com/ND1A0KC.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/ND1A0KC.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/222 "2024-07-28T14:36:01Z")
Calling her a “DEI hire” is particularly stupid. She’s never been “hired” (at least, since being appointed to some commission or other, 30 years ago). She keeps winning elections. But you can’t fight Stupid with Facts. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/223 "2024-07-28T14:56:40Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Calling her a “DEI hire” is particularly stupid. She’s never been “hired” … You know, the intended audience knows, _everyone_ knows that the meaning of that phrase has nothing to do with its literal meaning. It is the exclusively the way to say “uppity” fill in the blank without literally saying it, which would be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/224 "2024-07-28T16:14:39Z")
For some reason, MAGA thinks that Harris laughs weird. I would counter that with a video saying “let’s compare the laughs of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. “First… Harris… (with a video clip.) “Next: (black) “Sorry… There are no known recordings of Donald Trump laughing” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2024, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/225 "2024-07-29T20:41:01Z")
[https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/verify/social-media/viral-video-of-vice-president-kamala-harris-saying-today-is-today-is-altered/536-ce986373-988f-4c36-896e-ddd972c4b735](https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/verify/social-media/viral-video-of-vice-president-kamala-harris-saying-today-is-today-is-altered/536-ce986373-988f-4c36-896e-ddd972c4b735) _In a viral video, Harris appears to say, “Today is today. And yesterday was today yesterday.” But the video is fake and was created using doctored audio._ > **[Social Media Posts Misrepresent Harris' 2014 Remarks About Young People -...](https://www.factcheck.org/2024/07/social-media-posts-misrepresent-harris-2014-remarks-about-young-people/)** > > When Vice President Kamala Harris was the attorney general of California in 2014, she announced a program to help young people transitioning out of the criminal justice system. She glibly referred to the 18-24 age group as "stupid," saying people... _When Vice President Kamala Harris was the attorney general of California in 2014, she announced a program to help young people transitioning out of the criminal justice system. She glibly referred to the 18-24 age group as “stupid,” saying people that age “make really bad decisions.” But social media posts have taken her words out of context._ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/226 "2024-07-30T04:41:00Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > For some reason, MAGA thinks that Harris laughs weird. From today’s Borowitz Report: > [@](#): > > **JD Vance Struggles to Explain Why Sad Childless Woman is Always Laughing** > > … “It’s almost as if no one told her that stepchildren aren’t real children,” he said… > > … The Ohio senator said that he and his running mate plan to make the woman’s laughter “the number one issue of this election,” adding, “As long as one woman in America can still laugh, Donald Trump’s work is not finished.” ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/227 "2024-07-30T20:57:31Z")
[https://www.10tv.com/article/news/verify/social-media/kamala-harris-campaign-ad-video-shared-by-elon-musk-is-manipulated-ai-fact-check/536-af978101-50d9-41eb-979b-43f9cdbab01e](https://www.10tv.com/article/news/verify/social-media/kamala-harris-campaign-ad-video-shared-by-elon-musk-is-manipulated-ai-fact-check/536-af978101-50d9-41eb-979b-43f9cdbab01e) # Kamala Harris campaign ad shared by Elon Musk is not real _Elon Musk shared a manipulated parody video of a Kamala Harris campaign ad that uses generative AI to mimic the vice president’s voice._ ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/228 "2024-07-31T06:36:39Z")
[https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/j\*ul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/j*ul/30/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-false-statement-that-kamala-h/)\* _Donald Trump stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:_ _Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE_ (mostly false) > **[Donald Trump misleads about Kamala Harris and ICE](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/jul/29/donald-trump/fact-checking-donald-trumps-misleading-statement-t/)** > > In a flurry of attacks against his likely 2024 presidential opponent, former President Donald Trump said Vice President _Donald Trump_ _stated on July 24, 2024 in a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina:_ _Kamala Harris “supported abolishing ICE_ (False) Lots of lies. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/229 "2024-07-31T11:54:59Z")
There will be lies and more lies. That is an advantage of the brief campaign and the importance of maintaining possession of the news cycles as much as possible: less time for the lies to get air time. Refuting the lies with facts is less effective with the lower information voters than crowding them out with other news. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/230 "2024-07-31T11:59:54Z")
It is also benificial that Kamala can respond to these lies in real time (something Joe wasn’t that effective at). And it helps that her support team getting a lot of air time. Pete Buttogieg is an excellant point man for getting on shows and taking down the lies that are being spewed. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/231 "2024-07-31T13:00:26Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > There will be lies and more lies. And this is the whole point of this thread. Lies work best when they’ve been repeated for so long, that lots of people have heard them, and they just become part of the background noise of their lives. You can’t rebut every instance of a particular lie for years on end. Is 100 days enough time to produce that effect? I hope not. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/232 "2024-07-31T21:16:58Z")
Trump thinks that Kamala won’t be good at international relations because of how she looks. I could be wrong, but hasn’t she [already done a large amount of traveling as VP?](https://www.cfr.org/blog/vice-president-kamala-harriss-real-world-school-foreign-policy) > **[Trump says world leaders will walk all over Harris because of ‘how she looks’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-sexist-world-leaders-fox-news-b2588822.html?utm_source=reddit.com)** > > Harris has faced a string of sexist and racist attacks since President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 race and she stepped up to top the Democratic party’s ticket ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/233 "2024-07-31T21:23:49Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > hasn’t she [already done a large amount of traveling as VP?](https://www.cfr.org/blog/vice-president-kamala-harriss-real-world-school-foreign-policy) Yeah. This is yet another doomed-to-failure attack strategy. (In that it will be believed mainly by people who were never going to vote for any Democrat anyway.) Of course what Trump is trying to say with that “looks” remark, without outright saying ‘women are inferior,’ is that women are inferior. His fans love that, but the strategy won’t win over moderates and independents. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/234 "2024-07-31T21:49:41Z")
The Trump campaign is hoping it will win some moderates and independents. Both of those groups are filled with nontrivial amounts of racists and sexists. Moderates and independents aren’t exactly the free thinkers they like to claim to be. But are there enough willing to vote Trump or get demotivated enough not to vote for Harris? That’s the question. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/235 "2024-07-31T22:58:40Z")
From The Independent: > **[Trump says world leaders will walk all over Harris because of ‘how she looks’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-sexist-world-leaders-fox-news-b2588822.html)** > > Harris has faced a string of sexist and racist attacks since President Joe Biden stepped down from the 2024 race and she stepped up to top the Democratic party’s ticket > [@](#): > > Donald Trump has claimed that Kamala Harris would be treated as a “play toy” by world leaders because of “how she looks” in the latest misogynistic comments to emerge from his camp. > > The former president told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham in an interview, part of which aired on Tuesday night, that the vice-president’s appearance means other leaders will “walk all over her”. > > “She’ll be like a play toy,” he said. “They look at her and they say, ‘We can’t believe we got so lucky.’ They’re going to walk all over her.” > > Trump wouldn’t spell out what exactly he meant, adding: “And I don’t want to say as to why. But a lot of people understand it.” > A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign later denied that he was referring to Harris’ gender or race, instead slamming the Democratic presidential candidate as “weak, dishonest and dangerously liberal” in a statement to _The Washington Post._ > Yeah, like you can see weak, dishonest, and dangerously liberal just be looking at her. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/236 "2024-07-31T23:30:31Z")
That one is probably a sloppy repurposing of an attack on Biden appearing weak. I can’t wait until Trump comments on Harris’s son, Hunter. ETA: Here’s another example: > [@Is Trump confused?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-trump-confused/996589/1273): > “Trump just said Kamala Harris can’t pass a cognitive exam.” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/237 "2024-07-31T23:43:54Z")
Today, Trump lost his shit while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists, a group who had invited both presidential candidates to speak with them\*. He _began_ the Q&A attacking the “nasty” reporters and the “fake news”. But he made sure to insult Harris, questioning when she decided to become black (the same race as her father, you know). He also said she was the worst border czar in the history of the world, and other really weird (there’s that word again) things. > **[Trump lies about Kamala Harris' race and bashes journalists at NABJ...](https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2024/07/31/donald-trump-nabj-q-a-kamala-harris-chicago-conference-black-journalists)** > > The shortened event was full of incendiary comments from the former president, including claims illegal immigrants are taking "Black jobs." When asked if it was appropriate to call Harris a "DEI hire," which many Republicans are calling her, Trump... [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/31/trump-black-voters-nabj-harris/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/31/trump-black-voters-nabj-harris/) So this is how they are going to demonize Harris. With batshit lunacy, clothed in angry old man anger. \*Harris had a scheduling conflict, and the association turned down her offer to appear virtually. ETA: Just realized this generated its own thread with over 100 posts. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/238 "2024-07-31T23:57:34Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Today, Trump lost his shit while speaking to the National Association of Black Journalists, a group who had invited both presidential candidates to speak with them\*. And afterward, he posted on Truth Social, “The questions were Rude and Nasty, often in the form of a statement, but we CRUSHED IT!” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/239 "2024-08-01T00:07:51Z")
Yeah, I posted in the thread about the event something that Trump claimed at the event, but my post was lost in a gullywash of ridiculousness. Too bad what happened to that thread. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698/240 "2024-08-01T00:14:37Z")
I can’t believe Trump agreed to this event, given that he doesn’t like (1) interviews, (2) black peoples and (3) journalists. Whoever proposed this is probably in deep shit right now. Incredible that Trump claimed Harris only recently identified as black. She went to Howard University, for gods sake. HBCU doesn’t stand for Historically Bi-racial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-the-republicans-demonize-kamala-harris/1004698.md?page=13)