Former President Donald Trump and his supporters sang their final refrain in the final week of the campaign, arguing that Harris is responsible for the current state of the nation and that the only cure is the return of the 45th president.

“Kamala broke it, but I’m going to fix it,” Trump said at his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday night. This phrase has become something of a secondary slogan for the campaign, with Trump himself and his surrogates repeating it at every opportunity.

The campaign appears to be banking on most of the electorate deciding they were better off under Trump and aiming to make Harris the one pulling the strings in the Oval Office. “Fix it” further refers to his long list of policy items, particularly his policies on border security and taxation, but applies to initiatives on all major issues.

“Trump talks about solving Americans’ problems while Kamala Harris focuses exclusively on attacking him,” a campaign official said. told Fox News. He’s “asking people to vote for something, while she’s asking people to vote against something.”

Allies and advisors follow suit

Other surrogates have embraced the message. In a recent opinion piece for Fox Business, former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow pointed to inflation and cost-of-living data to show that the American people are worse off. However, he took the “riff” a step further by highlighting Trump’s allies, who would work within the administration to help repair the nation.

“There are many other people – new and old allies – who are helping Mr. Trump, but this is an important representative group,” wrote Kudlow. “(T)he group, like many others, shows that Donald Trump has the confidence and good judgment to recruit the best people to his team, and that is why he can say, with growing confidence: Kamala l ‘broke, Trump will fix it.’ he. That’s the riff.

Kudlow, in particular, highlighted the former Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk, JD Vance, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and a handful of others.

Vance himself takes stock at a rally Tuesday, saying “(think) of the great coalition we have put together. On the right we have people like Brian Kemp, Nikki Haley. On the left we have people like Tulsi Gabbard, Bobby Kennedy.”

“This is a common-sense coalition, ready to take the country in a more positive direction. But it’s very simple. Kamala Harris broke it. And Donald Trump will fix it,” he concluded.

World leaders make the same point

The campaign is not the first to adopt such a message. On the world stage, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban took a similar stance in March this year, amid escalating conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe. “The president (Donald Trump) was a president of peace. He commanded respect in the world and created the conditions for peace. » Orbán said. “Under his presidency, there was peace in the Middle East and in Ukraine. We need his return more than ever!

“It is up to the Americans to make their own decision, and it is up to us Hungarians to frankly admit that it would be better for the world – and better for Hungary too – if President Donald Trump returned to power,” he declared. added.

Trump himself has repeatedly highlighted Orban’s comments and did so again at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, earlier this week.

“Victor Orban, the powerful Hungarian Prime Minister, said: ‘bring back Trump and everything will stop.’ All these wars, everything will stop. They respected him. In fact, he said it differently. He said they fear him, but I don’t care,” Trump said.

“China was afraid. Russia was afraid. They are all afraid. And you know what? I don’t want them to be afraid. I just want respect,” he added. “And they need to respect us again now. They don’t care about our country. They make fun of us. If we win, America will be feared and respected again and, problem after problem, Kamala broke it, and I will fix it.”

“Why didn’t she?”

Harris, for her part, initially struggled to articulate her own positions and even adopted some of Trump’s, such as ending tipping taxes. As it gradually sketched out a platform for its future efforts, the Trump campaign leaned on a second refrain, about why it had not pursued such goals while in office over the past four years.

“She spends all her time complaining about everything, but does nothing. She’s going to do that. She’s going to do that. Why the hell didn’t she do it right? ” Trump said at a rally Wednesday. Indeed, Harris lashed out at the perceived failures of the Biden White House by saying about “The view” earlier this month, “that she couldn’t think of anything she would have done differently than President Joe Biden over the past four years.”