The Trump campaign on Monday previewed some of the attack lines former President Donald Trump is likely to use during tonight’s presidential debate on ABC.
The campaign argued that Vice President Kamala Harris “owns everything in this administration.”
In a conference call with reporters ahead of Tuesday’s debate, Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller pointed out that dealing with the US-Mexico border and illegal immigration, Harris’s decisive votes in the Senate to pass stimulus packages and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan are issues on which Harris has “sole control,” according to the campaign team.
Miller also said he expected there to be “some surprises during tomorrow’s debate.”
Miller pointed to Harris’ interview with CNN in which she said her “values haven’t changed” even if her positions on some issues have shifted, arguing that this response “really opens the door to talk about what those values are, what Kamala Harris has stood for over the years, since she started.”
Miller claimed that Harris, not President Joe Biden, was the one running the country, and once referred to the Biden administration as the “Harris-Biden” administration, even though Harris is not the president.
Regarding Trump, Miller said the former president will “stay true to himself. I think that’s an important point to keep in mind here.” He added that Harris is “in this debate boot camp and is being trained by new advisers who worked for President Obama and who she doesn’t know.”
Miller said, “All these new people, these strangers, trying to put ideas in her head. These files full of statistics and details. She has no idea what any of this is. No idea at all. And she’s trying to figure out what kind of person she wants to be, because her positions are changing, even though her values have stayed the same.”
When asked how Trump prepared, Miller said Trump gave both long interviews and shorter interviews, as well as held press conferences, rally speeches and town hall meetings.
“President Trump is prepared for every kind of question imaginable, because that’s what he has done throughout the campaign,” he said.
