The first is that the Trump campaign started to downplay the "we're gonna be stuck with president HARRIS" narrative pretty quickly after they aired their super bowl ad to that effect and realized that they'd miscalculated and that "President Kamala Harris" is not a scary phrase to most people outside their established Base and, in fact, might actually help some people still on the fence swallow their concerns and vote for Biden-Harris. Soon after that, they shifted their focus to "Joe is in cognitive decline! He's sundowning! He's too old to govern!" and that DID lose Biden points at the polls, so they kept with it
Second, another crucial thing to understand is that while the electorate is often deeply racist, and sexist, overt display of either of these things is INCREDIBLY unpopular among voters. Being racist and sexist only wins you points at the polls if you perform like you're not doing that. Misogyny absolutely played a major central role in why Clinton wasn't elected, but critically, a lot more people voted for her than Trump, and the moments where he went mask-off sexist with her are the ones that lost him popularity. The sexist moments that GAINED him popularity were the ones where he pretended to be doing something else: saying she's Crooked or focusing on her Emails or on ad hominem attacks on Bill.
Harris, unlike Clinton, doesn't have a 30-year Republican playbook dedicated to stopping her specifically from becoming president. If he wants to go after her on the basis of race, he'll likely try the Birtherism strategy— which, I'll remind everyone, was everywhere for several years and still failed— and if he wants to go after her on the basis of gender, his moves will likely be "inexperienced" which will fall flat against the incumbent vice president and "unstable" which he knows won't work because she's known for being unflappable, which is why he's so desperately trying to avoid the next debate with her.
Unfortunately ain't shit can be done about the "my opponent is a communist" narrative. Republicans do that against any and every Democrat regardless of age, race, or gender.
Again, nothing is a sure thing. But we have hard data on exactly one woman in the country, that voters are willing to look past their sexism and misogyny and cast their vote for her anyway. Undoubtedly the attacks on her will be racist and sexist, but we actually have seen how that's played out, with her, against this opponent, in the past.
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