WTOPWhy Harris and Democrats keep calling Trump and Vance 'weird' - WTOP News
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80% ReliableGood
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-32% Negative
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19% : Responding to Trump's Thursday appearance on Fox News, the Harris campaign -- in a news release with the subject line "Statement on a 78-Year-Old Criminal's Fox News Appearance" -- included "Trump is old and quite weird?" in a bulleted list of takeaways.15% : Plus, Karpf noted, "it frustrates opponents, leading them to further amplify it through off-balance responses.""So far, at least, Trump-Vance has been incapable of finding an effective response," Karpf said.Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a Democrat who is on Harris' short list for vice president, called Trump and Vance "just weird" last week in an MSNBC interview, which the Democratic Governors Association -- of which Walz is chair -- amplified in a post on X. Walz reiterated the characterization Sunday on CNN, referencing Trump's repeated mentions of the fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter from the film "Silence of the Lambs" in stump speeches.
13% : But Harris' own characterization of Trump as "weird" may date back even further.
7% : As staff aimed to prepare her for how she'd react if, during a debate, Trump stood over her as he did Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016, Harris reportedly quipped, "'I'd turn around and say, 'Why are you being so weird?
2% : What's wrong with you?'"On Sunday, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung posted video of Walz calling Trump and Vance "weird" as he stumped for Harris and said the likely Democratic nominee and her backers were themselves out of line for "trying to gaslight everyone into thinking the shooting was staged," a reference to the assassination attempt at Trump's rally in Pennsylvania.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.