During an appearance on Anderson Cooper's show last night, Maggie Haberman said that Donald Trump is desperately trying to bait Kamala Harris.
Trump and his campaign have been caught completely flat-footed by the change from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris and his campaign is flailing. Trump's campaign numbers are sagging and his people have seemingly taken him off the road due to his constant stream of controversial comments.
According to Maggie Haberman, Trump only really knows one way to respond to Harris, and it is similar to what he did to Barack Obama with birtherism. She told Anderson Cooper, "His allies will say he is an equal opportunity offender and he goes after everybody, and it’s certainly true that he insults a wide variety of people, but he has seemed to really struggle with women opponents, women critics, and particularly Black women who are critics."
Haberman continued:
"Trump is a man of few moves, and so we have seen him make the same ones over and over. You are correct that he is trying to run against Kamala Harris the same way that he attacked President Obama when Obama was in office and Trump was flirting with the idea of running for president in 2011 and was promoting the birther lie, suggesting that the first Black president was not legitimate to serve."
The New York Times scribe closed, "If you look at the Trump War Room account on Twitter, they are trying pretty hard to bait her and to bait Democrats into a fight about race, and that has been something so far that the Harris campaign has not taken the bait on, but this is something that we have seen him do before."