White House: ‘No Daylight’ Between Biden, Harris

Generally, in a political marketing campaign season, one celebration states the patently apparent — and but, even so, palms their opponent a pleasant large cudgel to beat them with. In a single such, the White Home, talking ex-cathedra via the personage of Karine Jean-Pierre, said that there was “no daylight” between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That presents a slightly disagreeable psychological image, but it surely’s extra regarding for the Harris/Walz marketing campaign because it provides the Trump marketing campaign a speaking level.

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The Trump marketing campaign is rallying round White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre saying there is not any “daylight” between President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, arguing the remark displays that “Kamala owns the border disaster” and different points throttling the nation. 

“Thanks @PressSec for confirming: there may be ‘no daylight’ between Kamala and Joe! Kamala owns the border disaster. Kamala owns inflation. Kamala owns the wars, chaos, and crime over the previous 4 years,” Trump marketing campaign nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X on Monday afternoon exhibiting a clip of Jean-Pierre. 

Leavitt was responding to Jean-Pierre saying Monday throughout the White Home press briefing that Biden and Harris have been “aligned” all through the administration and that there is not any “daylight” between the pair.

Thanks @PressSec for confirming: there may be “no daylight” between Kamala and Joe!

Kamala owns the border disaster.

Kamala owns inflation.

Kamala owns the wars, chaos, and crime over the previous 4 years. pic.twitter.com/RIx4hotNuH

— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) August 12, 2024

This can be a flypaper strip that KJP actually ought to have prevented, coming because it does at a time when the Trump marketing campaign is outwardly shifting into excessive gear.

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After all, there’s the issue that neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris have any actual thought what’s truly happening. Joe Biden has no actual thought as a result of he is senile. Kamala Harris has no actual thought as a result of she is willfully ignorant and, frankly, not terribly brilliant. In that sense, after all, they’re two peas in a left-leaning pod. However the tack that the Trump individuals right here have been taking is that, whereas Joe Biden is now not the candidate, it’s nonetheless the “Biden/Harris” administration, and he or she carries her portion of the duty for the mess the nation is in proper now. Karine Jean-Pierre’s slightly clueless verbal slip-up simply gave the Trump marketing campaign a lift in that assertion.

Within the grand scheme of issues, thoughts you, this may not find yourself being that a lot of a a lot. Verbal gaffes by each side come and go, and each side will probably be making extra of them. In the long run, this verbal screw-up will not have an effect on the end result a lot. The debates, now debates have, in previous elections, actually tipped issues — in 1980, the Reagan/Carter debates, for example. The second debate, whereby Ronald Reagan, sure, pounced on then-President Carter with the well-known “There you go once more” line and pivoted to ask the American individuals whether or not they had been higher off than that they had been 4 years earlier. Reagan grabbed management of the dialogue at that time and saved the initiative proper as much as the election.

That — not in an off-hand assertion by the slightly clueless KJP — is the place Trump will actually have the possibility to seize the initiative and hold it.