Former presidential candidate and entrepreneur says former President Donald Trump has been “receptive” to advice that the GOP presidential nominee spend more time expressing his differences in policy with Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris than issuing personal attacks.
Ramaswamy told Politico that Republicans are missing an opportunity by not discussing Harris’ far-left policy stances.
“I think if we’re able to say …’ This is our vision for the entire United States… then we go down the list and say, ‘Here are the policies that Kamala Harris has [not only] stood for in the past but that she has actually taken steps to implement … I think we can win this thing not only by a small margin but still in something that resembles a landslide,” said Ramaswamy.
“But that’s not up to anybody else but us. And so that’s the work we have cut out for our own side. And if we do it, I think we win. And if not, I think we lose.”
Ramaswamy said he personally delivered that message to Trump and was “receptive.”
The entrepreneur pointed to Harris’s decision to name progressive Minnesotan Tim Walz as her running mate as an ideal opportunity to “shift the focus to policy.”
“That is the first presidential-style decision that we’ve actually seen her make,” said Ramaswamy. “She could have gone the direction of a centrist, a moderate like [Pennsylvania Gov.] Josh Shapiro. She didn’t. She made an affirmation decision to say; I want to go in the direction of somebody who has instead increased taxes in the states that he led … at least helped fuel a wave of violent rioting and protesting in his state, one of the most climate policy-forward governors.”
Trump was prepared for Biden, must re-group to confront Harris
Until July 21, the plan of the Trump campaign was running against President Joe Biden.
The two men participated in a June 27 debate hosted by CNN. Biden’s disastrous performance led Democratic leaders, such as former President Barack Obama and former Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi of California, to push the president out of the race.
President Biden threw his support firmly behind Harris.
Donald Trump spoke policy on Wednesday during a rally in Asheville, North Carolina, where he gave a significant economic speech. The Republican nominee said his plan to reduce Americans’ cost of living is to slash energy prices in half within the first 18 months of his taking office.
“I’m announcing today that under my leadership, the United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing energy and electricity prices by half, at least half,” said Trump to a boisterous crowd. “We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months, at a maximum of 18 months.”
