Donald Trump couldn't resist the temptation of bringing up Kamala Harris' laugh last month, shortly after the vice president stepped up to be the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

"I call her laughing Kamala," Trump said at a recent rally in Michigan. "You ever watch her laugh? She's crazy. You can tell a lot by a laugh. No, she's crazy, she's nuts."

Harris' rival for the US presidency never tires of denigrating the incumbent US vice president. He makes fun of her both as a woman and as a person of color. His online followers join in, spreading insulting memes and fake videos. But Harris and her campaign team have parried these attacks by turning the tables. Supporters join in online, especially on TikTok. Channels that normally focus on showbiz celebrities are stylizing Kamala Harris as a pop icon.

And time and again, the focus is on a cheerful Kamala Harris who can laugh heartily at herself, lets the nasty campaigns bounce off her and sometimes hits back. For example, she has said that as a public prosecutor she had to deal with criminals of all kinds: "Predators who abused women. Fraudsters who ripped off consumers. Cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So hear me when I say I know Donald Trump's type."

By referring to Trump as "weird," she drives him up the wall, only to then devote herself to her difficult campaign issues with the necessary "statesperson-like" seriousness.

Harris can........

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