Trump 'caught himself' admitting his campaign is stumped by Harris during rally: CNN

Reacting to Donald Trump's speech at a rally Saturday night in Atlanta, CNN's Alayna Treene singled out one startling moment when the former president expressed his frustration with having to run against Vice President Kamala Harris.

After explaining that the former president seemed to be falling back on his 2016 playbook when he ran against Hillary Clinton and wallowed in purely personal attacks, she pointed out that the current talking point of the Trump campaign is to label his latest female opponent as "phony."

However, she noted, there was a moment when he admitted he is having a problem "defining" Harris which is hampering his campaign.

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"I do want to actually point your attention to something that I found very interesting because, at one point, Donald Trump kind of admitted that they need to define her," Treene explained. "They still are figuring out how to define her."

In a clip Trump is seen remarking, "You know four months ago she was considered grossly incompetent by the fake news. Now they're saying, 'Oh, isn't you wonderful, isn't she wonderful,' no she's not wonderful."

He continued, "So we have to work hard to define her. I don't want even define her, I just want to say who she is, she's a horror show, she'll destroy our country."

"So, I mean, a little bit of saying the quiet part out loud there," Treene stated. "He caught himself and said that actually, I don't actually need to define her, she's horrible. This is something that has come up many times in my conversations with Trump's advisors, which is, you know, for the last several months, really this entire election cycle, they had ignored Harris altogether."

"Their entire playbook had been to try and go after an unpopular 81-year-old incumbent," she elaborated. "Now they're re-imagining the entire campaign, obviously so close to November. and it's been a bit of a struggle. I think you can hear him kind of throwing the kitchen sink of attacks at her because they're trying to figure out what sticks."

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