Trump's usual sexist sneers don't work against Harris - and to top it off, she's laughing at him | Emma Brockes

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : JD Vance, a man so palpably unappealing that he seems to have spooked even those who think that Trump is a good thing, had this week to defend remarks he made several years ago attacking Harris for not having children.
40% : He did it with E Jean Carroll ("not my type"), and, even more astonishingly, with her lawyer, who while taking his deposition at Mar-a-Lago in 2022, was informed by Trump: "You wouldn't be a choice of mine either, to be honest with you."
35% : In this, Trump's own value system, it's Trump himself, two decades her senior, who looks like the guy on the couch picking crumbs from the creases of his vest.
33% : And while Harris has, to date, not been a particularly assured politician, she seems to know instinctively how to handle Trump.
23% : It works because it's true, but also because she's doing the thing Trump hates above all other things: she's laughing at him.
10% : Within days of Harris's ascent, Trump was calling her "crazy", "nuts" and "dumb," an auto-response that even his supporters at the back might be starting to twig is a generic line of attack.
10% : Harris looks like his worst nightmare: a former attorney general of California in heels, slick, telegenic, with a corporate image and politics that have been largely in the centre - so that when Trump says "She is a radical left lunatic who will destroy our country," he sounds ridiculous.
1% : With a smirk that does more work than all of Clinton or Warren's earnest attempts to debate him, Harris meets Trump at the demotic level and states the bleeding obvious: "These guys are weird."

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