Exclusive: With less than two weeks until Election Day, Trump's campaign has one final message for voters: Vice President Harris is 'broken' but former President Trump 'will fix it', officials say He spoke to FOX News Digital while previewing his strategy for the runoff. stretch.
Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with Trump campaign officials about the former president's strategy to get supporters to the polls on or before Nov. 5 by focusing on the economy and the crisis at the southern border.
“For the last four years, Kamala Harris has destroyed the economy and the border,” Trump campaign senior adviser Tim Murtaugh told Fox News Digital. “Donald Trump will solve both.”
“The great thing about this election cycle is that everyone who is voting has lived through the Trump era and the Harris era,” Murtaugh said.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Trump waves during a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, on October 22. (AP/Alex Brandon)
“They've been through both administrations. When Trump was president, the economy was great, inflation was non-existent, the borders were secure and the world was at peace,” Murtaugh said. “Under Harris' leadership, by contrast, the economy is in shambles, inflation is still soaring, national borders are disappearing, and the entire world is on fire.”
President Trump has hammered this message relentlessly as he crisscrosses the country in the final weeks of the election cycle, and his campaign believes it has helped build momentum against the vice president. It is said that he moved. .
A campaign source told Fox News Digital: “Mr. Trump is talking about solving problems for the American people, but Kamala Harris is focused on attacking Mr. Trump.”
Harris on Tuesday accused Trump of seeking “unbridled power” and being “unfettered and unstable.”
But the Trump campaign said that while the former president was “asking people to vote yes on something, she is asking people to vote no on something.”
“He is touting optimism and a positive message to solve the problems he and President Biden have created,” a campaign official said.
The latest Fox News poll shows Trump leading Harris nationally, 50% to 48%.
Former President Trump, a Republican presidential candidate, watches the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. New York Jets game on October 20, 2024. (Evan Vucci Pool/Getty Images)
Murtaugh cited national trends: “Donald Trump is leading in every battleground state, and momentum and polling averages continue to move in his direction.”
Campaign officials said vulnerable incumbent Democrats seeking to distance themselves from Harris are running ads in battleground states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pennsylvania, is running ads in the Keystone State that highlight how he has “fighted back against Biden” and “sided with” Trump while portraying Democratic senators as “independents.” The ad features a Republican woman and her Democratic husband, but never mentions Harris.
Similar ads featuring Trump have been run by Sen. Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin and Elissa Slotkin in Michigan.
“Democratic Senate candidates are spending Democratic donations promoting Donald Trump in the Blue Wall battleground states,” the official said.
People wave signs at former President Trump's rally on October 5, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. (Matthew McDermott, Fox News Digital)
And the latest USA Today/Suffolk University poll also shows Trump leading Latino voters, a key group, by a wide margin. Mr. Trump leads Ms. Harris by 11 points in this important voting bloc.
“But polls are only theoretical election results, and polls don't win elections. Actual votes win elections. That's why we continue to accelerate,” Murtaugh added. . “And we'll be looking at the tapes on Election Day.”
The Trump campaign said it believed it had “momentum.”
“President Trump will be relentless and relentless,” the official told Fox News Digital. “He's going to troll the country over and over and over and over and over and over again until Election Day.”
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President Trump held an event in the battleground state of Georgia on Tuesday, featuring Robert F. Kennedy Jr., former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and country music singer Jason Aldean. , held a large rally with former college athlete Riley Gaines and others.
President Trump made a campaign stop this week at a McDonald's store in Pennsylvania and mocked Harris' claims that she once worked for the fast food chain.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump waits in the drive-thru line at a McDonald's restaurant on October 20, 2024 in Feasterville-Trevose, Pennsylvania. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
“The visit to McDonald's encapsulated his positive message,” the source said. “He's a cheerful, optimistic guy who knows he can solve problems. So what was the reaction from the Harris camp? They laughed at it.”
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The Harris campaign blasted the campaign suspension as a “staged photo op,” saying President Trump “doesn't understand what it's like to work for a living,” adding that Trump has no idea what it's like to work for a living. “He has a history of standing up for workers and confronting wrongdoing,'' he said. If any actor deceives people, she would do the same with the president. ”
Donald Trump claimed on Sunday afternoon that he works as a french fry cook at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania and has worked at the fast food chain longer than Vice President Harris. (Brook Singman)
Trump's next planned stops include a large campaign rally in Tempe, Arizona. Las Vegas; Traverse City, Michigan. Novi, Michigan. State College, Pennsylvania. On Sunday, a large rally was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Campaign officials said the former president will continue to engage with the press and give interviews to major media outlets. On Friday, Trump will be interviewed on Joe Rogan's podcast. Logan has 17 million subscribers on YouTube and 14 million on Spotify.
And his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), continues to engage with the media, already holding large campaign events this week in Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada. Over the next few days, Vance will be in Waterford, Michigan, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
But Trump campaign surrogates also host large-scale events, including campaigning for Donald Trump Jr. in battleground states. Trump campaign bus tour. Women for Trump visits areas affected by recent hurricanes.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Trump shakes hands with former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a rally in Glendale, Arizona, on August 23, 2024. (Reuters/Go Nakamura)
Even Dr. Phil and RFK Jr. are joining forces to host a “Make America Healthy Again” event in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Trump campaign officials have also expressed the importance of early voting and encouraged supporters to “vote in any way you can.”
“Whether you vote by mail, vote early, or vote on Election Day, we want you to plan to vote,” officials said. “We need people to come, and we're almost at the end of the persuasion and now the voters are starting to come in.”
Meanwhile, Harris' campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
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However, Harris is scheduled to deliver a huge “closing argument” speech next Tuesday, one week until Election Day, at the Ellipse, just south of the White House and north of the National Mall. The Harris campaign noted that then-President Trump headlined a large rally of supporters at the Ellipse on January 6, 2021.
Her campaign also announced this week a new concert series featuring Bruce Springsteen and former President Obama, and the Democratic National Committee launched a new Taylor Swift-themed get-out-the-vote campaign aimed at young voters.
Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Harris speaks at the Vice President's Residence in Washington, DC, on October 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
As for President Biden, she has largely stayed out of the campaign, with Harris repeatedly pledging to continue the policies and vision of the Biden-Harris administration, while also promising to bring “new progress.”
But on Tuesday, Biden also weighed in.
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“We have to lock him up,” Biden said of Trump. But the president quickly added, “Lock him up politically, lock him out. That's what we have to do.”
In response, a Trump campaign official told Fox News Digital, “For four years, the American people have never known that the Biden-Harris administration has used the authority of the federal government to go after Donald Trump and his supporters.'' It was obvious.”
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“Two weeks before the election, Joe Biden finally acknowledged it,” the official added.
