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2024-08-03 20:53:00

The Underdog vs. the Victim

Harris and Trump have different ways of playing outsider.

By Joyce Cary

This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.This year’s newly reset presidential race features a former president running against a sitting vice president, but don’t expect to hear either candidate dwell on their existing power.

“We got a fight ahead of us, and we are the underdogs in this race,” Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic nominee, said this weekend at a fundraiser.

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”

Meanwhile, the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, speaks about how he is a victim. “I’m being indicted for you,” he said at a recent rally in Michigan. In 2022, he said he had been “harassed, investigated, defamed, slandered, and persecuted like no elected leader in American history.”