Analysis: Trump's hardline new quest to destroy Harris' momentum

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The campaign swing comes a week before the critical meeting between Harris and Trump on a debate stage slated for September 10 in Philadelphia -- one of the final foreseeable turning points of this campaign, with mail-in voting starting later this week.
39% : And Trump is showing that there's almost nothing he won't do to win.
32% : The harrowing episode showed how Trump is willing to cross lines that more conventional politicians would consider off-limits.
30% : Her decision to take on high grocery prices with a vow to clamp down on supermarket giants might explain how she's narrowed the gap with Trump on who is most trusted on the economy.
28% : Trump is not simply being true to his ill-disciplined self.
27% : The question is whether this barrage of negative attacks is merely successful in stoking feelings of existential anger Trump uses to drive his base the polls, or whether it begins to tarnish Harris at the margins in battleground states.
26% : But her adoption of centrist positions also appears to be squeezing Trump and frustrating his efforts to land a decisive political attack.
23% : And while the vice president joined Situation Room meetings on the crisis, it's not clear yet whether Trump can saddle her with personal responsibility for the deaths in the minds of voters since Biden was commander in chief at the time.
22% : Trump is trying to compensate for his own liabilitiesTrump's invective amounts to some of the most hardline political rhetoric in years, even by his own standards, and means the next two months are likely to be brutal.
19% : Trump is putting his faith in a searing attempt to do anything it takes to bring Harris down; the vice president is wagering that his extreme attempts to do so will convince enough voters he's unfit to return to the Oval Office.
17% : And Trump has also started to imply the coming election might not be "free and fair" and said in an interview that aired Sunday that it was ridiculous to indict him for "interfering" in the 2020 election.
15% : Former President Donald Trump leaves Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery on August 26, 2024.Kevin Carter/Getty Images/FileEven though Harris has restored the contest to a neck-and-neck race, her campaign recognizes the still potent threat from Trump.
14% : And in a reprise of past GOP campaigns branding Democratic nominees as extreme liberals, Trump and his supporters are trying to frame Harris as a communist and a "Bolshevik."
14% : On other issues, Harris is refusing to be drawn into gutter for political fights with Trump that might tarnish her image.
10% : It may make some sense for Trump to throw everything he can think of at Harris.
2% : Trump responded by posting videos of some of the relatives of the fallen soldiers accusing Harris and Biden of complicity in the murder of their loved ones and supporting Trump.

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