How MAGA World Is Taking On Its New Opponent

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : He insisted that the race remains the same: "Trump will be Trump."
65% : "As Harris was stepping "into the spotlight, reintroducing herself on her own terms," as the Times put it, Trump was presenting her to his party.
57% : In Charlotte, Trump brought Judd up to the podium, and then Michael McHale, the president of the National Association of Police Organizations, who endorsed him onstage and sent a press assistant running to hand out leaflets on the law-enforcement community's support for Trump.
55% : "At the Bojangles Coliseum, Trump said that he was supposed to have become nice after getting shot.
52% : Trump emphasized that Democrats are the party of chaos, radicalism, and lunacy, while his is the party of "common sense."
47% : But now the press was asking Cheung how Trump intended to keep a competitive travel schedule with someone twenty years his junior.
42% : Trump was now more than ever the candidate running to save democracy, and support for Harris was just a conspiracy between the élites and the press.
39% : "Kamala Harris wants to be the President for savage criminals," Trump said.
37% : Only a week before, at the Republican National Convention, Trump was put forth as the heroic leader of the nation, while President Joe Biden, who was being abandoned by his party, recovered from COVID; it was easy to see why Trump's circle had been so confident.
33% : On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Trump and his allies are outspending Harris's team twenty-five to one on TV and radio attack ads in August.
32% : "She's talking about Trump, so he has to defend himself," Angel said, of Harris.
31% : (The day before the rally, Trump held a call with reporters advertised as "Failed Border Czar Kamala Harris' Border Bloodbath," where he spoke alongside Brandon Judd and Paul Perez, the former and current presidents, respectively, of the National Border Patrol Council, who bashed Harris's record on immigration.)
27% : A few minutes before Trump entered the arena, Steven Cheung, the campaign spokesman, came down to the media risers, where he was practically pinned against a wall by reporters asking how the race had transformed now that the former President faced a new opponent in Kamala Harris.
17% : "Shouldn't the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud," Trump asked, on Truth Social, soon after Biden stood down.
17% : At the rally, Trump referred to Harris as "crazy liberal"; her stance, in his words, was, "If you kill somebody, that's O.K."During one of Trump's long riffs, I wandered out to the mouth of the arena, where I met Angel, a teacher of kids with disabilities, wearing a striped shirt, who was there with her husband, children and infant grandchild.
16% : Onstage, Trump was describing MS-13 gang members cutting women up into pieces.
14% : Trump has also been able to retool one of the subjects he spends the most time on -- open borders and "Biden migrant crime" -- by introducing Harris as the true perpetrator of the border crisis.
13% : Harris was "a radical crazy person," he said, and her coronation as the nominee was illegitimate: "It's like, you know, 'Trump is killing this guy!

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