How Lincoln Can Help Trump

Trump’s challenge is to force Kamala Harris out of her self-imposed bubble, and he could apply lessons from history to do so.

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Illustration of Republican presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln speaking on stage during a debate with Steven Douglas and other opponents at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., October 7, 1858.

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Donald Trump is reportedly frustrated by Kamala Harris’s rise in the polls. It’s clear that he needs to take her down a notch or two, but he and his advisers are flummoxed as to how to do it.

They should take a page from Abraham Lincoln’s playbook and lure Harris into doing the dirty work herself.

Henry Olsen

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Henry Olsen

Henry Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The Working-Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism.

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