{"id":1980,"date":"2024-11-12T08:20:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/donald-trump-wants-americans-to-hate-kamala-harris-but-hes-failing\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T16:29:11","slug":"donald-trump-wants-americans-to-hate-kamala-harris-but-hes-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/donald-trump-wants-americans-to-hate-kamala-harris-but-hes-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump wants Americans to hate Kamala Harris \u2014 but he&#8217;s failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class><em>This is an adapted excerpt from the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sept. 3<\/em><\/a><em>  episode of &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p class>Since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, the numbers have shifted in the Democrats&rsquo; favor. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipsos.com\/sites\/default\/files\/ct\/news\/documents\/2024-08\/FullFinalABCNews-IpsosPolling09012024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new poll <\/a>shows Harris has a slight lead over former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-age-harris-ramble-rcna168979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump <\/a>among likely voters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.langerresearch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1235a2IntotheFallCampaign.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">52% to 46%. <\/a>Harris also bests the former president on likability: 46% of those polled have a favorable impression of the vice president, while only 33% see Trump favorably.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s clear his campaign is just absolutely desperate. <\/p>\n<p class>Now, if you&rsquo;re trying to sort through this race and determine what direction we&rsquo;re heading come November, just look at those favorability numbers. They&rsquo;re quite striking. Trump is way upside-down for likability, while Harris is on the upside. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/2024-presidential-election\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With just weeks to go until the election<\/a>that 13-point gap is&nbsp;a <em>big deal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class>The Trump campaign knows that. Just look at the absolutely crazed behavior on display from their candidate. It&rsquo;s really almost too much to get your arms around. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-scandal-story-rewrote-election-2024-rcna169290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump&rsquo;s Arlington <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-scandal-story-rewrote-election-2024-rcna169290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National C<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/maddowblog\/donald-trump-arlington-cemetery-scandal-story-rewrote-election-2024-rcna169290\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">emetery stunt<\/a>he&rsquo;s moving all over the place on issues from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/deadline-white-house\/watch\/-insulting-to-the-shoe-flip-flops-nicolle-wallace-on-trump-s-embarrassingly-weak-abortion-stance-218456645975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">abortion<\/a> to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/msnbc-opinion\/trump-mass-deportation-plan-rcna168431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> immigration <\/a>to try to win over voters. It&rsquo;s clear his campaign is just absolutely desperate.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, the Trump campaign knows that they can&rsquo;t make people like the former president, so now their only goal is to make people hate Harris. They&rsquo;re scared. They know that if they can&rsquo;t get Americans to hate Harris<em>,<\/em>she will win.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\">\n<p><span data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"><\/span><span data-testid=\"byline-name\">Joe Scarborough<\/span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeNBC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., is co-host of BLN&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe&#8221; alongside Mika Brzezinski &mdash; a show that Time magazine calls &#8220;revolutionary.&#8221; In addition&nbsp;to his career in television, Joe is a two-time New York Times best-selling author. His most recent book is &#8220;The Right Path: From Ike to Reagan, How Republicans Once Mastered Politics &mdash; and Can Again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Detzel<\/p>\n<p>contributed<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/morning-joe\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-likeability-favorable-unfavorable-polling-rcna169401\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an adapted excerpt from the Sept. 3 episode of &#8220;Morning Joe.&#8221; Since Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential race, the numbers have shifted in the Democrats&rsquo; favor. A new poll shows Harris has a slight lead over former President Donald Trump among likely voters, 52% to 46%. Harris also bests the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}