The Trump campaign on Monday previewed some of the lines of attack that former President Donald Trump is likely to deploy during tonight’s presidential debate on ABC.
The campaign argued that Vice President Kamala Harris “owns everything in this administration.”
Trump campaign spokesman Jason Miller, in a conference call with reporters ahead of Tuesday’s debate, noted that the campaign believes issues on which Harris is “leading” include the U.S.-Mexico border and dealing with illegal immigration, her tie-breaking vote in the Senate to pass the stimulus bill and withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
Miller also said he expects “there will be some surprises in tomorrow’s debate.”
Miller noted that Harris had said in a CNN interview that while her positions on some issues have changed, “my values haven’t changed,” and argued that the answer “really opens the door to talking about what those values are and what Kamala Harris has stood for all these years, from the beginning.”
Miller has argued that Harris, not President Joe Biden, is in charge of the country, and has even referred to the Biden administration as the “Harris-Biden” administration, even though Harris is not the president.
“The former president is going to be himself, which is an important thing to keep in mind here,” Miller said of Trump, adding that Harris is “being trained in this debate boot camp by new advisers who worked for President Obama but whom she doesn’t know.”
“Strangers trying to plant ideas in her head, binders of statistics and details. She has no idea what any of this is. No idea at all. She’s trying to figure out who she wants to be because her positions may change but her values don’t,” Miller said.
Asked how Trump has prepared, Miller said he has conducted both extended and shorter stand-up interviews, press conferences, speeches at rallies and town hall meetings.
“President Trump is prepared for any style of questioning, as he has done throughout the campaign,” he said.