[RajT88]

It kind of makes sense from a certain angle.

Trump is a known quantity - people know what they are getting with him and have made their peace with him being how he is.

People expect more from Democrats. Harris would get dinged for saying things that Trump says, by the same people who are fine with Trump saying those things.

If that seems irrational and hypocritical, well, that's how people are, regardless of their politics.

Another model of how to think about the candidates is that human beings make decisions based on how the person or thing in front of them makes them feel - and afterward they come up with post-hoc rationalizations as to why. Even smart people do this. To some extent, we're all lying to ourselves about this.

So it makes sense that this time around both candidates ran campaigns focused on emotions, instead of policy specifics.