Republican leaders urge colleagues to steer clear of racist and sexist attacks on Harris

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : "Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who is a prominent member of the Congressional Black Caucus and was among the early Democrats to confront Trump, said she is well-braced for what's ahead as the Republicans turn the campaign toward Harris.
31% : "She predicted that approach might backfire on Trump.
28% : Trump offered a similar argument in call with reporters Tuesday.
25% : "Trump has a long history of launching particularly caustic and personal attacks against women, from former Fox News host Megyn Kelly to his 2016 primary opponent Carly Fiorina to New York Attorney General Letitia James, who successfully sued him and his business for fraud.
24% : The dynamics could be heightened on the debate stage, if Trump goes through with debating Harris, as he said Thursday he would.
21% : "She's going to get a real rise out of him," predicted Grisham, noting that when Trump is attacked, he "punches 1,000 times harder.
20% : In a sign of what could come, Trump in a Fourth of July message on his Truth Social network took a jab at Harris' poor performance in the 2020 Democratic primary, adding "that doesn't mean she's not a 'highly talented' politician!
19% : Trump, in particular, has a history of racist and misogynistic attacks that could turn off key groups of swing voters, including suburban women, as well as voters of color and younger people Trump's campaign has been courting.
8% : "I don't think Trump can approach a debate against Kamala Harris with the same tone that he approached the debate with Hillary Clinton.
4% : Republican pollster Neil Newhouse said Trump was unlikely to debate Harris in the same way he would debate Biden -- or the same way he debated another female rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in 2016.
3% : Later, in an interview on Newsmax, Trump claimed Harris "destroyed the city of San Francisco," though she left her job as district attorney there in 2011, and called her "the worst at everything.""Kamala Harris is just as weak, failed and incompetent as Joe Biden -- and she's also dangerously liberal," the Trump campaign said in a statement.

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