The gloves are off as 2024 presidential campaigns intensify efforts

WASHINGTON (TND) — The calls for unity In the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump have all but faded away with 2024 campaigns in full swing. Republicans are "weird" and Democrats are "crazy" as both sides sprint towards November.

Allies for Vice President Kamala Harris have been echoing how "weird" Republicans and their policies are as they hit the talk show circuit.

"That stuff is weird, they come across weird," said Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., on MSNBC last week. Walz is rumored to be on the shortlist for Harris' potential vice presidential pick.

Meanwhile, Republicans are also on the attack, with Trump giving it his blessing at a recent rally.

Something happened when I got shot, I was supposed to be nice," Trump told a crowd in North Carolina. "If you don’t mind I’m not gonna be nice is that ok?”

The attack ads are starting to come out, too. Trump’s team is spending around $12 million in battleground states hitting Kamala Harris on her border record. A new ad out this week ends by saying“Kamala Harris. Failed. Weak. Dangerously Liberal.”

Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is now a frequent target of Harris supporters. His criticism of childless adults, once calling them "crazy cat ladies," has been a repeated point of emphasis by the Harris campaign. He has repeatedly remarked on people who don't have kids, with Harris' campaign X account tweeting out a video from 2020 where he said not having kids made people "more sociopathic" and that they were the most "deranged" and "psychotic" people on social media.

Trump defended him this week.

“It doesn’t mean that a person who doesn’t have, he’s not against anything. But he loves family," he told Fox News' Laura Ingraham.

Voters will hear plenty about both candidates messaging. To compete with Trump’s $12 million ad spending, Harris’ campaign will spend $50 million to flood voters with ads through the Democratic National Convention next month.