随着与副总统卡玛拉·哈里斯的首场比赛临近，前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)再次搁置传统的辩论准备工作，转而采用类似的策略，即与顾问举行政策会议，并进行一系列采访和市政厅会议。
在9月10日美国广播公司新闻辩论之前的一周，特朗普正在宾夕法尼亚州的一个市政厅进行竞选活动，在纽约发表了经济演讲，并将于本周末在威斯康星州举行集会。他的竞选团队说，这位前总统认为与选民交谈也是一种辩论准备。
“我们每天都在辩论和准备。这叫做唐纳德·特朗普与选民对话，”特朗普的一名竞选顾问说。
特朗普竞选高级顾问布莱恩·休斯(Brian Hughes)告诉美国广播公司新闻(ABC News)，因为特朗普接受了“数十次无稿采访，并能在无稿的情况下与记者站在一起数小时，他不需要工作人员作弊代码来参加辩论。”
“他正在与顾问一起审查政策，”休斯说，并补充说，特朗普“随时准备讨论他作为总统的成功时光。”
在一次周三市政厅活动，福克斯新闻频道主办肖恩·哈尼蒂特朗普表示，他将在辩论中“让(哈里斯)说话”。
“当我有(乔·拜登总统)时，你和我有同样的讨论。我让他说了。当被问及当哈里斯试图激怒他时，他将如何回应时，特朗普告诉汉尼提。
在过去的三周里，特朗普只做了两场活动，竞选团队称之为他近十几次竞选活动中的集会——打破了竞选的传统风格。
相反，竞选团队坚持安排更小规模、以政策为重点的演讲，并与盟友一起参加有节制的讨论小组。在这些事件中，特朗普一直在努力微调他对哈里斯的攻击，尽管有时他经常努力抓住主题。
特朗普和他的竞选团队早已偏离了模拟式辩论，并表示尽管有不同的挑战者，但他的方法仍然是一样的。相反，在竞选活动的间歇，特朗普和他的竞选团队一直专注于确定几个不同的政策领域，这与他在6月份与拜登的辩论中采取的策略类似。
特朗普在6月份的辩论舞台上对拜登进行了有限的爆发和人身攻击，他的竞选团队表示，他将专注于对哈里斯采取类似的策略。尽管如此，特朗普并没有退缩，对哈里斯进行人身攻击.
竞选团队还利用了前民主党众议员塔尔西·加巴德最近支持特朗普，用于辩论准备。竞选顾问注意到加巴德在2020年民主党初选中与哈里斯和拜登的辩论表现，并因瞄准哈里斯作为检察官的记录而成为当时的头条新闻。
在周末的公开评论中，加巴德提出了她将在下周辩论之前向特朗普建议的策略类型，并警告说，哈里斯不应被“低估”。这位前总统此前曾表示，他认为辩论哈里斯将比拜登“容易”。
“我认为卡玛拉·哈里斯很有经验。她不容小觑。加巴德说:“川普总统和卡玛拉·哈里斯副总统的记录截然不同。
她认为，特朗普应该关注哈里斯的人字拖，“这将是选民审视、比较和对比这些记录的机会。”
“这真的只是分享我与她在2020年辩论舞台上的经历，坦率地说，这有助于指出卡玛拉·哈里斯已经表明她正试图摆脱她的记录，摆脱她的立场，以及这与她现在是民主党候选人的立场和声明是如何矛盾的一些方式，”加巴德说。
特朗普最近还在威斯康星州与加巴德一起参加了市政厅会议，回答了选民关于经济、移民和国家安全等问题的提问。
随着特朗普竞选团队试图将重点放在哈里斯的记录上，辩论舞台上预计的另一个攻击是哈里斯目前在白宫服务并现在可以做出政策决定的区别。
“这是我将一直强调的一点。动手吧。你现在就可以做到，”特朗普上个月在接受《每日邮报》采访时声称。
美国广播公司新闻辩论将于美国东部时间9月10日星期二晚上9点举行。辩论前的黄金时段特别节目将于美国东部时间晚上8点播出。
Trump turning to campaign events, talking to voters to prepare for Harris debate
Former President Donald Trump is once again brushing aside traditional debate preparations as his first match against Vice President Kamala Harris approaches, reverting to a similar strategy of policy meetings with advisers and a series of interviews and town halls.
In the week leading up to the Sept. 10 ABC News debate, Trump was on campaign trail for a town hall in Pennsylvania, gave an economic address in New York and will hold a rally in Wisconsin this weekend. His campaign said the former president sees talking to voters is a form of debate prep, too.
"Our debate and prep is every day. It's called Donald Trump talking to voters," one Trump campaign adviser said.
Trump campaign senior adviser Brian Hughes told ABC News that because Trump gives "dozens of unscripted interviews and can stand with reporters unscripted for hours at a time, he doesn't need staff cheat codes to go into a debate."
"He is reviewing policy with advisers," Hughes said, adding that Trump is "always prepared to discuss his successful time as president."
During atown hall event Wednesday with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump said he was "gonna let [Harris] talk" in the debate.
"When I had [President Joe] Biden, you and I had the same discussion. And I let him talk. I'm gonna let her talk," Trump told Hannity when asked how he will respond to Harris when she tries to get under his skin.
In the last three weeks, Trump has only done two events that the campaign has described as rallies out of the nearly dozen campaign stops he has had -- a break in the campaign's traditional style.
The campaign instead has been persistent with scheduling more smaller-scale, policy-focused speeches and participating in moderated discussion panels with allies. During these events, Trump has worked to fine-tune his attacks on Harris, though, at times, he often struggled to stay on topic.
Trump and his campaign have long strayed from mock-style debates, and say that despite having a different challenger, his method remains the same. Rather, in between campaign stops, Trump and his campaign have been focusing on nailing down several different policy areas, a similar strategy to how he approached the June debate against Biden.
Trump had limited outbursts and personal attacks on the debate stage against Biden in June, and his campaign said he will focus on a similar strategy against Harris. Still, Trump has not held back on the trail,lobbing personal attacks at Harris.
The campaign has also tapped former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, whorecently endorsed Trump, for debate preparations. Campaign advisers took note of Gabbard's debate performance against Harris and Biden in the 2020 Democratic primary, and made headlines at the time for taking aim at Harris' record as a prosecutor.
In public comments over the weekend, Gabbard offered insight into the types of tactics she would advise Trump about ahead of next week's debate, warning that Harris should not be "underestimated." The former president has previously said he thinks debating Harris will be "easier" than Biden.
"I think Kamala Harris has a lot of experience. She's not to be underestimated. President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have very different records," Gabbard said.
She argued that Trump should focus on Harris' flip-flops, which "will be an opportunity for voters to look at and compare and contrast those records."
"It really is just sharing the experience that I have with her on that debate stage in 2020 and frankly, helping to point out some ways that Kamala Harris has already shown that she is trying to move away from her record, move away from her positions, and how that contradicts the positions and statements that she is making now that she is the Democratic nominee," Gabbard said.
Trump also recently sat down for a town hall with Gabbard in Wisconsin, answering questions from voters on issues such as the economy, immigration and national security.
As the Trump campaign tries to focus on Harris' record, another attack anticipated on the debate stage is the distinction that Harris is currently serving in the White House and can make policy decisions now.
"That's one of the points that I will make all the time. Do it. You can do it right now," Trump claimed in an interview with the Daily Mail last month.
The ABC News debate will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 9 p.m ET. A prime-time pre-debate special will air at 8 p.m. ET.
