Trump adviser said the White House will smell like curry if Kamala Harris wins

Donald Trump adviser Laura Loomer said that if Kamala Harris wins, “ the White House will smell like curry & White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center’s call center.

The racism rope-a-dope is one of Trump advisers’ favorite moves—say something to provoke accusations of racism, then ride the wave of outrage over your critics’ perceived oversensitivity.

The theory is that by supercharging the salience of race, race is a reliable winner with huge swaths of the electorate, they can compensate for the unpopularity of their policy agenda.

Julian Zelizer : The Trump campaign uses race baiting to provoke attacks that will activate a sense of white solidarity.

He says the Trump campaign's more overtly racist rhetoric is meant to capture the support of the former group.

Zelizer says the Harris campaign is avoiding talk of race, especially when it comes to the candidate herself.

Trump needs to turn Harris into a threatening figure, and Harris has to defuse appeals with caution.

Harris ’s recent remarks about gun ownership tell conservative-leaning white people that she shares their fears about crime, another point of emphasis for Trump that involves lurid descriptions and exaggerations .

It is not a coincidence that Harris 's harshest condemnations of Trump have come in response to remarks he's made about other people.