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在芝加哥举行的民主党全国代表大会上，贺锦丽及其盟友采用了新策略，将特朗普塑造成一个过时的骗子，专注于揭露他自私自利的一面，而不是强调他的种族主义言论或对民主的威胁。他们希望通过这种方式削弱特朗普在宾夕法尼亚州、密歇根州和威斯康辛州等关键摇摆州的影响力。为了实现这一目标，贺锦丽的竞选团队制作了视频和演讲，将特朗普描绘成黑暗、丑陋的过去，而贺锦丽则是光明的未来。他们还反复强调特朗普的法律麻烦，将其定义为一个重罪犯。这一策略旨在激发民主党基层选民的热情，并将其与特朗普的“无私”形象形成鲜明对比，从而在关键的摇摆州中争取选票。
Original Title: How to Beat Trump? Kamala Harris and Democrats Find a New Strategy
Summary: At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris and her allies are employing a new strategy: they’re trying to deflate Donald Trump. Over the first two nights of the convention, Harris and her allies laid out a more explicit picture of the Trump they want to present to voters between now and November. The message, delivered in a carefully crafted video shown to delegates and repeated in speeches, is that Harris is a forward-looking agent of change and Trump is an out-of-date symbol of a con that has run its course. The anti-Trump message aims to minimize him, to make him seem small, to distance themselves from him and avoid being forced to respond to each of his provocations. Instead of emphasizing his racist remarks or his threat to democracy, the Democrats are focusing on portraying Trump as a petty con man who cares only about himself and his billionaire friends. The attacks are meant to do more than just win applause in the hall; they are meant to win votes. The goal is to sap Trump’s support among undecided white working-class voters in the three swing states that could decide the election — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Harris and her allies are essentially arguing that Trump is a phony populist, a union-busting “thug” whose self-dealing has gone too far for Americans to stomach. Harris’s surprise appearance on the first night of the convention seemed to take a page from the opponent’s playbook, embracing a bit of Trumpian stagecraft to ignite the room. A video that preceded her arrival set the tone and the image for her campaign, and it showed her trying to reclaim the American spirit and patriotism from Republicans. The video on the jumbotron started with a panoramic shot of horses galloping across a dusty plain. Images of great American symbols flashed across the giant screen: six Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, the Statue of Liberty, the moon landing, the American flag. Then it moved to Democrats. Beyoncé’s voice boomed: “Freedom, freedom. I’m not bound. Freedom, let me loose.” A deep male voice cut in, defining “freedom” in terms Harris offered. “Freedom from control” was accompanied by an image of a woman holding a “My Body My Choice” sign in front of the Supreme Court. “Freedom from extremism and fear” was paired with footage of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, which Trump incited. The tone of the video was young and optimistic, bouncing from one happy Harris crowd to the next. It painted Trump as the dark, ugly past and Harris as the bright future. It ended with a voice-over that mocked Trump’s legal troubles: “This is our choice: prosecutor or felon.” For Harris, the most important part of the message was her being defined as a prosecutor — a tough, battle-tested figure. Two people familiar with their thinking said that the felon line was aimed at energizing the Democratic base, but Harris’s advisers believe that felon is not what defines Trump. The felon theme, however, has become something of a rallying cry at the Democratic convention. Hillary Clinton, the “her” in the “Lock Her Up!” chant of Trump supporters in 2016, made a speech on Monday night and smiled broadly at the Chicago crowd’s chants of “Lock Him Up!” A video mocked the opening sequence of the television show “Law & Order,” presenting Trump as a lifelong criminal. And two short videos are expected on Wednesday night that will focus on Trump’s lies, how pervasive fraud helped him lose the 2020 election and the consequences of his rhetoric. Trump’s spokeswoman, Caroline Levitt, said in a statement that there had never been a “more selfless political figure” than Trump. “He gave up a comfortable life to save our country,” she said. “He’s been indicted, shot at, slandered, and he never gives up. He puts his life on the line to restore American sovereignty and greatness. These Democrats know nothing about courage. They just want more power for themselves and to control the people.” One of the most pointed portrayals of Trump at the convention came from Sean Fain, president of the United Auto Workers, who wore a T-shirt that said “Trump is a Thug” and dramatically revealed it after taking off his jacket. “Thug” is the highest insult in labor circles. “This election comes down to one question: Whose side are you on?” Fain said on Monday night. Trump and his running mate, J.D. Vance, a senator from Ohio, were “two lapdogs of the billionaire class, serving only their own.” It remains to be seen whether Harris’s strategy is strong enough to endure until Election Day and break through the increasingly hardened partisan positions of many voters. Democrats and Republicans agree that Harris has had a near-flawless past four weeks, while Trump has endured one of the worst months of his political life. He has not leveled sharp policy attacks on Harris and has instead launched a barrage of personalized insults, including a preposterous claim that images of her rallies were artificially generated by A.I. But despite Harris’s good fortune, the race is still a tight one. Though she is vice president, she is largely still an unknown commodity as a politician, and Republicans will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the coming weeks to define her as a “dangerous liberal” and link her to Biden’s most unpopular policies, including his immigration policies. They will remind voters of her past left-wing positions, which she made clear when she briefly ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2019. In 2016, Trump presented Democrats with so many angles from which to attack him that it proved difficult to choose the best ones. Hillary Clinton’s campaign focused on recreating the diverse coalition that had delivered victory to President Barack Obama. When Trump made misogynistic and racist remarks, she and her supporters responded with outrage. That was exactly the kind of fight Trump wanted, allowing him to dominate news cycle after news cycle. People who have spoken to Harris said she has learned from Clinton’s campaign. Harris is unlikely to give a speech about the dangers of white supremacy like Clinton did in 2016. Nor is she likely to talk excessively about her own “glass ceiling,” as Clinton did on Monday night. When Trump falsely claimed that Harris had only recently embraced her Black identity, she did not take the bait. Instead of expressing anger or calling Trump a racist, the vice president dismissed it as boring and old. “The same old playbook,” she said at a rally in Texas. “It’s not worthy of America.” Other Democratic leaders are also delivering that message. On the first night, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called Trump a “ruthless union-busting con artist” who “would sell this country for a dollar if it meant lining his pockets and his Wall Street friends.” On Tuesday night, Obama and his wife, Michelle, echoed the theme in their speeches. Obama said that Trump, “this guy’s act — let’s be honest — has gotten pretty stale,” and called Trump out for his obsession with benefiting himself and his “wealthy friends.”
Original article: https://cn.nytimes.com/usa/20240822/harris-attack-lines-trump/zh-hant/?utm_source=RSS