Democrats have been pushing hard to frame the campaign on the positive, contrasting themselves with a pessimistic Trump. However, as Trump campaign spokeswoman Caroline Leavitt notes in an interview with Fox Business, Trump is ‘realistic about the dire state’ of US domestic and foreign policy. According to her, Harris’ team is not so much positive as detached from reality.
ANNOUNCER: Joining us now is Trump’s campaign spokeswoman for the 2024 election, Caroline Leavitt. Caroline, did you watch the broadcast of the Democratic Party convention last night?
CAROLINE LEVITT, Trump campaign spokeswoman: Unfortunately, Dagen, yes, I did watch it.
WEDEMAN: What Scott Bessent said to me and Sean yesterday was this: we should expect a more optimistic Donald Trump. And everyone here and Democrats are just saying that Harris and Walz characterise their optimism. Should we expect the same from President Trump?
CAROLINE LEWITT: I think Trump has already demonstrated that quality to those who follow the Republican Party National Convention. Every night was about how President Trump would fix our country’s problems and solve the crises created by the hands of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
We have discussed how to make America rich again, how to make America strong again, safe, secure, prosperous. President Trump is talking about this on his campaign tour – he’s visiting ‘swing states’ this week – to contrast his vision with what the Democrats are broadcasting.
They want to talk about joy, but there is little of it in this country right now, and President Trump is right to point out the pessimism that has gripped Americans, the pain and suffering as they watch other Americans die in Democrat-run cities and criminals go free, as millions of illegal immigrants invade our country and are given free travel and housing while working families can’t afford to pay the mortgage on their homes.
So President Trump is realistic about the dire state of our economy, global chaos, and the lack of security at our southern border, while Democrats are completely disconnected from reality. Yesterday I felt like I was watching an inclusion from an alternate universe.