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Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison sounded an optimistic note ahead of tonight’s presidential debate, framing the election as about “progress versus chaos” and projecting faith in Harris.
“We need to start treating him like he’s not all there, and that’s dangerous to this nation,” Harrison said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” about Trump.
He went onto say that Harris’ “presidential” performance will set the stage for the party to “ride into this November election” by removing any potential questions voters might have about Harris, less than two months into her presidential bid.
As Trump and Harris get ready to debate for the first time, and months after the June debate between Trump and Biden ultimately led to Biden dropping his re-election bid, Harrison preached confidence in Harris. And he advised her to speak directly to the American people and to not “cram so much data in your head that you’re trying to remember the data and not listening for the opportunity.”
In a DNC strategy memo provided exclusively to NBC News ahead of the presidential debate tonight, DNC Communications Director Rosemary Boeglin said the voters can expect to hear Trump mostly talk about himself, a nod to former President Bill Clinton’s speech at the Democratic National Convention last month calling on voters to not just “count the lies — count the I’s.”
“As Trump takes the debate stage tomorrow night, voters will hear both his I’s and his lies — that reveal more about the motivations behind his extreme Project 2025 agenda than the shameless spin operation he and his campaign are running,” Boeglin wrote in the memo, referring to a proposed agenda for a second Trump term by the conservative Heritage Foundation, which Trump has attempted to dissociate himself from.
“When you hear Trump’s endless lies and I’s tomorrow night, one thing will be clear: he’s in this for himself, NOT for the American people,” she added.
The memo comes on the heels of Harris’ recent remarks saying that she expects Trump is “going to lie” during the debate.
“[Trump] plays from this really old and tired playbook — right? There’s no floor for him in terms of how low he will go. And we should be prepared for that,” Harris said in an interview on “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” that aired yesterday. “We should be prepared for the fact that he is not burdened by telling the truth. And we should be prepared for the fact that he is probably going to speak a lot of untruths.”
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