‘Weird’ election turns to how Harris laughs and Trump does not laugh at all

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It’s funny, really. In an election where the two leading presidentialcandidates are miles apart on weighty issues from abortion rights to border policy, for some reason both sides are talking about how Vice President Kamala Harris laughs and former President Donald Trump doesn’t.

The sound of Harris laughing

Trump, trying out new material to mock Harris, has dubbed his opponent as “Laffin’Kamala.”

“She’s crazy. She’s nuts,” he said at a recentrally in Michigan, implying there is something maniacal about her laugh.

US Vice President and Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris speaks at West Allis Central High School during her first campaign rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on July 23, 2024. Harris is in Wisconsin to start her presidential campaign after effectively clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / AFP) (Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

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His supporters might hear a funny joke, but hers hear a sexist attack in line with the resurfaced comments of JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, who described childless Democrats in a 2021 interview as “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives.”

If you don’t hear any sexism in any of this, consider that Trump also mocked Hillary Clinton for her laughter.

Democrats, meanwhile, are trying a new tactic to deal with Trump’s most outrageous claims – laughing at them to take their power away.

Is this ‘weird?’

Allies of Harris are shifting gears to emphasize not the danger they