It was a given all along that Donald Trump would ramp up the racism and sexism in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign. And once Sen. Kamala Harris was the Democratic vice presidential nominee, it was a given that Trump would focus his racism and sexism on her. It’s still ugly watching it happen.
Following the vice presidential debate, which polls show Harris won resoundingly, Trump referred to her as “this monster.” Trump is trying to exploit that view of Harris as inhuman and terrible to scare voters as he repeatedly claims that she, not Joe Biden, will be in charge if Biden wins the presidency. She’ll be president within “three months,” he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will “replace” Biden with Harris, he told Rush Limbaugh and tweeted. Trump hasn’t been able to land a solid punch on Biden, so he’s hoping that changing the subject to Harris—and dehumanizing her as a “monster”—will work better.
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“It is really an effort to say to their base, ‘Look, we don’t want a Black woman to be president,’” Rep. Marcia Fudge told the Associated Press. ”‘We don’t want this Black person to take over in case something happens to Joe Biden.”
It’s not subtle. According to Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who’s trying to be a Trump adviser, anyway, Biden is “docile” and Harris is “aggressive,” a stereotype about which many books have been written. “If voters understand the totality of her radicalism, they would conclude that she would be a very high-risk person to put in the White House,” Gingrich said, while continuing to support Donald Trump’s presence in the White House, talk about high-risk people.
Trump’s base may buy into this, but there’s no strong evidence it’s resonating with anyone outside that racist, sexist base. Again, Harris won the debate and left viewers convinced she was qualified to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
