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"Weird." Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.

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<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;Weird.&quot; Democrats want this to be the word of 2024 -- their secret weapon to bring down Donald Trump.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;Trump is old and quite weird?&quot; as a Kamala Harris campaign statement put it.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;Just plain weird,&quot; Harris said.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Trump has built a political career on mocking everyone from opponents to his own staffers.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">But being the butt of the joke makes him furious.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;I hate when people laugh at me,&quot; he told a rally earlier this month.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">That &quot;weird&quot; jibe is Harris&#x27;s bid, in her come-from-behind campaign, to get the whole country laughing.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/29/100-days-extraordinary-us-election-enters-the-home-stretch-1007">100 days: Extraordinary US election enters the home stretch</a></div><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Where President Joe Biden used formal -- often grandiose -- speeches to frame Trump as an existential boogeyman, Harris&#x27;s team is trying to shrink the Republican into something more like an unpleasant clown.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Here are typical phrases from Harris campaign releases on Trump:</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">-&quot;Bitter, unhinged.&quot;</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">-&quot;Rambled about golf.&quot;</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">-&quot;Generally sounded like someone you wouldn&#x27;t want to sit near at a restaurant -- let alone be president of the United States.&quot;</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">And when it comes to Trump&#x27;s vice presidential pick, J.D. Vance, the mockery is if anything more intense.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Vance&#x27;s past comments belittling &quot;childless cat ladies&quot; -- women who, like Harris, have not given birth -- raise him to the &quot;super weird&quot; category, according to two Democratic senators.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">And a viral piece of online trolling -- a fake story claiming that Vance wrote about sex acts with a sofa -- demonstrates the extent to which the anti-Trump camp is ready to weaponize humor.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/17/-i-didn-t-vote-for-trump-j-d-vance-trump-s-running-mate-was-once-a-bitter-critic-944">J.D. Vance, Trump&#x27;s running mate, was once a bitter critic</a></div><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">The story may have been made up, but an industrial flow of memes involving Vance, couches and suggestions of what might be happening between them did the damage.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;J.D. Vance didn&#x27;t have sex with a couch. But he&#x27;s still extremely weird,&quot; began an article on the online news site Vox.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Or as Hillary Clinton put it: &quot;If Republican leaders don&#x27;t enjoy being called weird, creepy, and controlling, they could try not being weird, creepy, and controlling.&quot;</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>TRUMP ATTACKS HARRIS&#x27;S LAUGH </strong></div><div><br/></div><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">The Trump campaign was blindsided by Biden&#x27;s abrupt decision to drop out, then Harris&#x27;s warp-speed start, which in one week has seen her ignite the Democratic base and pull level with Trump -- or even ahead -- in the polls.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;A sucker punch,&quot; Vance said in a recording of an address to supporters obtained by The Washington Post.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">The shift in tone from Biden&#x27;s policy-heavy sermons about democracy to the edgier Harris approach is no less startling.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Now Republicans are looking to turn the joke back on their opponents.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/24/harris-leads-trump-in-new-poll-after-biden-dropout-1018">Harris leads Trump in new poll after Biden dropout</a></div><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">Trump is doing what he&#x27;s always done -- dishing out the insults and trying to find one that sticks. He&#x27;s called her &quot;dumb,&quot; &quot;nuts&quot; and a &quot;bum.&quot;</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">And Trump&#x27;s combative son, Don Jr, is leading a drive to flip the &quot;weird&quot; jibe on its head.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;What a ... weirdo,&quot; he posted on X, using a common vulgarity, over a video clip of Harris saying she supports access to gender reassignment surgery for prison inmates.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;Talk about weird priorities,&quot; he wrote in another post about her transgender support.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">And if Harris thinks she can laugh at Trump, then he has an answer to that too -- by attacking the way she laughs.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding:0px;border:0px;-webkit- line-height:1.3;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);orphans:2;widows:2">&quot;You can tell a lot by a laugh,&quot; he said, trying out &quot;laughing Kamala&quot; as a nickname. &quot;She&#x27;s crazy.&quot;</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/world/2024/7/27/trump-accuses-harris-of-anti-semitism-in-overblown-speech-1508">Trump accuses Harris of anti-Semitism in overblown speech</a></div><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div>

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