During a segment on Anderson Cooper's CNN show, Maggie Haberman said that Donald Trump's attempts to bait Kamala Harris are failing.
The Trump campaign has struggled to figure out a way to attack Harris and her candidacy. The former President has focused on the obvious: she is a woman of color. But she is not making that the hallmark of her campaign and Trump can't seem to figure out his next move.
Cooper began by noting that Harris didn't spend much time when asked by CNN's Dana Bash about Trump's racist comments, "Clearly, she was ready for that and… chose to just brush it aside, to not go down that rabbit hole."
Haberman responded:
"Her campaign has made a very concerted effort to try not to get baited. And Trump has been trying very hard to bait her and to bait her supporters on issues related to race, on issues related to gender. And her campaign and the vice president are not interested in doing that. Now, I don’t know whether they will decide strategically to say more or engage more at some point. The debate might be a place where they do that. It might not be a place where they do that.
You know, her convention speech – and she had a very successful convention – her speech really didn’t get into the historic nature of her candidacy. Other people talked about that in their speeches. She did not. And you know, I think there’s a variety of reasons why, but that was a very intentional answer that I think you will hear a lot of."