By admin EXCLUSIVE: With less than two weeks until Election Day, the Trump campaign is giving voters its final message: Vice President Harris “broke it” and former President Trump will “fix it,” officials told Fox News Digital as they review their strategy for the finale stretch.
Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with Trump campaign officials about the former president’s strategy of rallying supporters at the ballot box on or before November 5, focusing mainly on the economy and the crisis at the southern border.
“Kamala Harris has spent the last four years destroying the economy and the border,” Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told Fox News Digital. “Donald Trump will fix both.”
Murtaugh said that “the beauty of this election cycle is that everyone who will vote lived through the Trump-Harris years.”
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“They had experience from both administrations. “When Trump was president, the economy was fantastic, inflation was non-existent, the borders were secure and the world was at peace,” Murtaugh said. “On the other hand, under Harris’ leadership, the economy is in ruins, inflation is still massive, our border has been erased, and the world as a whole is on fire.”
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Trump has been repeating that message relentlessly, stop after stop, as he crisscrosses the campaign country in the final weeks of the cycle, which his campaign says has given him momentum against the vice president, who they say has largely shifted her message to attacking former president .
“Trump talks about solving Americans’ problems, while Kamala Harris focuses solely on attacking him,” a campaign representative told Fox News Digital.
Harris on Tuesday accused Trump of seeking “unchecked power” and of being “unbalanced and unstable.”
However, the Trump campaign said the former president was “asking people to vote for something, while she’s asking people to vote against something.”
“She is selling optimism and positive messages that will help solve the problems that she and President Biden have created,” a campaign official said.
The latest Wall Street Journal poll shows Trump leading Harris by 2 points nationally. Trump catches on The WSJ poll puts likely voters’ support at 47% nationwide, with Harris at 45%, in a ballot that also includes independent and third-party candidates.
That’s a change from the Journal’s previous national poll in late August, which showed Harris with a two-point lead.
The survey indicates that views of Harris have become more negative since August, with her favorable rating eight points underwater and her approval rating as vice president at 42-54%. Meanwhile, views of Trump have improved, with voters approving of his past performance in the White House by a 52-48% margin.
Nationwide, Trump leads Harris 50% to 48%, according to the latest Fox News poll.
Republican presidential candidate former President Trump attends a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the New York Jets on October 20, 2024.
“Donald Trump leads every battleground state, and momentum and polling averages continue to trend in his direction,” Murtaugh said, citing national trends.
Campaign officials pointed to ads running in the battleground states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin by vulnerable Democratic incumbents who tried to distance themselves from Harris.
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Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania is running an ad in the Keystone State highlighting how he “defeated Biden” and “sided with” Trump, portraying the Democratic senator as an “independent.” The ad features a Republican woman and her Democrat husband and never mentions Harris.
Similar ads featuring Trump are running in Wisconsin for Sen. Tammy Baldwin and in Michigan for Senate candidate Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
“Democratic Senate candidates are spending Democratic donors’ money to promote Donald Trump in Battle of the Blue Wall states,” the official said.
The latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll shows Trump leading with a key group: Latino voters. Trump leads Harris by 11 percentage points in this critical voting bloc.
“But polls are just theoretical election results, and polls don’t win races. Actual votes win elections and that’s why we continue to accelerate,” Murtaugh added. “And we will review the tape on Election Day.”
The Trump campaign expressed confidence that they have “momentum.”
“President Trump will be relentless and tireless,” the official told Fox News Digital. “He will storm the country – rinse and repeat – over and over until Election Day.”
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On Tuesday, Trump held events on the battlefield in Georgia, where he held a massive rally featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, country music singer Jason Aldean and former athlete academic Riley Gaines.
Trump made a campaign stop at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania this week to mock Harris for claiming she once worked at the fast food chain.
Republican presidential candidate former President Trump operates a drive-through line during a visit to a McDonald’s restaurant on October 20, 2024 in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania.
“The trip to McDonald’s encapsulated his positive message,” the official said. “He’s a happy, upbeat guy who knows he can fix it. And what was the response from the Harris campaign? They laughed it off.”
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Harris’ campaign called the campaign stop a “staged photo op,” saying Trump “doesn’t understand what it’s like to make a living” and that the vice president “has a history of standing up for workers and putting up with bad actors who scam people, and she will do the same as president.”
Donald Trump worked as a cook at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon, claiming he has worked at the chain longer than Vice President Harris.
Trump’s next scheduled stops include major campaign rallies in Tempe, Arizona; Las Vegas; Traverse City, Michigan; New, Michigan; State College of Pennsylvania; followed by a massive rally at Madison Square Garden in New York on Sunday.
Campaign officials said the former president would continue to contact the press and participate in interviews with major media outlets. On Friday, Trump will be interviewed on Joe Rogan’s podcast. Rogan has 17 million subscribers on YouTube and 14 million on Spotify.
His running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, will also continue to engage with the media and has already held major campaign events in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada, this week. Vance will be in Waterford, Michigan and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in the coming days.
However, Trump campaign surrogates also host major events, including Donald Trump Jr.’s campaign. in the battlefield states; Trump campaign bus tour; and Women for Trump visit areas devastated by recent hurricanes.
Republican presidential candidate former President Trump shakes hands with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024.
Even Dr. Phil and RFK Jr. are teaming up to host a “Make America Healthy Again” event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Trump campaign officials have stressed the importance of early voting and are encouraging supporters to “vote any way you can.”
“Whether they vote by mail, early in person or on Election Day, we want them to plan to vote,” the official said. “We need people to be present. We’re getting to the point where persuasion is almost gone, and now we’re getting to turnout.”
Meanwhile, Harris’ campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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But Harris is expected to deliver what is described as a major “closing argument” speech next Tuesday – a week before Election Day – at the Ellipse, located south of the White House and north of the National Mall. The Harris campaign noted that on January 6, 2021, then-President Trump headlined a large rally of supporters at the Ellipse.
Her campaign this week also announced a new concert series featuring Bruce Springsteen and former President Obama, while the Democratic National Committee launched a new Taylor Swift-inspired get-out-the-vote campaign aimed at young voters.
As for President Biden, he has largely stayed off the campaign trail as Harris alternates between promising to continue the policies and vision of the Biden-Harris administration while promising to chart a “new path forward.”
But on Tuesday, Biden spoke up.
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“We have to lock him down,” Biden said of Trump. But the president quickly added: “Lock him up, lock him up politically. That’s what we have to do.”
A Trump campaign representative responded, telling Fox News Digital that “it has been clear to Americans for four years that the Biden-Harris administration is using the power of the federal government to go after Donald Trump and his supporters.”
The official added: “Two weeks before the election, Joe Biden finally confirmed it.”
Original article source: Trump’s Ending Campaign Message to Voters: ‘Harris Broke It, Trump Will Fix It’