Trump Is Suddenly Running Scared
From the beginning, the campaign was going his way. Not anymore.

Somehow, it was just two weeks ago that Donald Trump headed into the
Republican National Convention looking like a juggernaut. That all feels
like a long time ago. As his campaign enters its final three months, Trump
looks like a man off balance. His polling lead has evaporated, his campaign
strategy is obsolete, and he�s flaunting his most offensive tendencies.
�I want to be nice,� Trump said Saturday at a rally in Minnesota. �They all
say, I think he�s changed. I think he�s changed since two weeks ago.

Something affected him. No, I haven�t changed�maybe I�ve gotten worse,
actually.�
Early last month, everything was going Trump�s way. He had led the
presidential race against the incumbent, Joe Biden, since fall 2023, and
the polls were only getting better for him after Biden�s disastrous
performance in the June 27 debate. As good as the national polls looked,
the swing-state surveys were even better. Trump had been an underdog in
each of his first two campaigns, and had won the first and lost the second.
In the third, he was poised to lead wire to wire. As my colleague Tim
Alberta reported, the Trump team was dreaming of a landslide.
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Black
And all of that was before Trump survived an assassination attempt. Though
the experience was horrifying, it produced an unforgettable image, drew
widespread sympathy, and created an aura of invincibility�if not
messianism�around him. It also gave him an opportunity to strike a more
unifying tone and get out of the muck.
Yet speculation about Trump pivoting to unity was never very believable, as
anyone who�s lived through the past decade knows, and he couldn�t even make
it through his 90-minute nomination-acceptance speech without falling back
into recriminations.
Having built much of his campaign around Biden�s senescence, Trump now
faces Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee
instead. The former president has seemed unsure of how to most effectively
hit Harris and get off the back foot. He�s begun laying the groundwork to
beg off a second debate, scheduled for September 10, and Harris has been
happy to taunt him for it.
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In her first 10 days as the party�s standard-bearer, Harris has improved
nearly every indicator for Democrats. She leads some national polls and has
erased or closed the gap with Trump in swing-state surveys.
Crucially, she has made big progress toward fixing the problem of lagging
Democratic enthusiasm. Eight in 10 Democrats say they�re satisfied with her
as the nominee, more than double Biden�s figure in mid-July. Donors who
closed their coffers as Biden faltered have written big checks. Volunteer
numbers have surged, and so have voter registrations for Democrats. A burst
of excitement was to be expected when Harris replaced Biden, but she�s
managed to sustain it beyond just a blip. The data guru Nate Silver, who
had been bullish for months on Trump�s chances, declared yesterday that the
election is a toss-up.
But you don�t need Silver to tell you that. Just watch how Trump is acting.
Meanwhile, many Republicans spent the past week grumbling about Senator J.
D. Vance, Trump�s running mate. Vance�s selection was a signal of Trump�s
confidence: The Ohioan is a MAGA hard-liner, meant to consolidate
excitement in the Republican base. Instead, he has become a drag on the
ticket. Now infamous for insulting �childless cat ladies,� he is the least
popular running mate in recent history. Some observers even wondered
whether Trump would replace him on the ticket.
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Instead, Trump outdid him. Appearing at the National Association of Black
Journalists conference on Wednesday, Trump insulted the organization,
stumbled over explaining what a �Black job� is, and vowed to pardon January
6 rioters. But the wildest remark came when he questioned whether Harris is
actually Black. (She is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican
father.)
�She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian
heritage,� Trump said. �I didn�t know she was Black until a number of years
ago, but when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as
Black. So I don�t know, is she Indian, or is she Black?�
Trump�s claim is not, for the record, remotely true: Harris has always
talked about both sides of her heritage. Faced with widespread condemnation
and warnings from Republicans that he�d gone too far, Trump stuck to the
line later on Wednesday and yesterday. Finding himself in a hole, Trump
tossed aside his shovel and reached for a jackhammer.
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Trump making offensive remarks, his campaign in disarray after the RNC,
Democrats riding high behind a historic female candidate�it all feels a lot
like summer 2016. Everyone knows how that election turned out. Trump is in
a much worse place than he was on July 15, but he could still easily win.
Harris�s vibe shift could run out of steam, a Trump punch could land, or
some new crisis could reshape the race.
Three months, after all, is a long time. Just ask Donald Trump how much can
change in two weeks.

Ryan wrote:
> Trump Is Suddenly Running Scared

No he's not, but YOU sure are!

In <v8m33e$3ju5m$1@dont-email.me> Chickenshit! wrote:
>
> Trump Is Suddenly

laughing at the Harris clown show.

On Fri, 9 Aug 2024 11:06:03 +0200, Tampon Timmy <harris_whore_boi@protonmai1.com> wrote:

>In <v8m33e$3ju5m$1@dont-email.me> Chickenshit! wrote:
>>
>> Trump Is Suddenly
>
>laughing at the Harris clown show.

In your dreams. Trump watched Harris/Walz take the lead in the polls and has caved - he's
agreed to the scheduled ABC debate on Sept 10. Trump is so rattled he's been holed up in
Mar-a-loco all week. Three weeks on from Biden dropping out and neither he or the GOP
have a new campaign plan in place to combat the Dems. His presser today was the usual
litany of lies. Poorly set up, he couldn't hear the reporters questions and neither could
the cameras.

It's the Dems that's laughing. They're practically giddy with glee.

#nevertrump

In a word ...
<https://www.gocomics.com/claybennett/2024/08/07>

In article <v8m33e$3ju5m$1@dont-email.me>, X@Y.com wrote:

>Trump Is Suddenly Running Scared

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Tampon Timmy wrote:
> In <v8m33e$3ju5m$1@dont-email.me> Chickenshit! wrote:
>>
>> Trump Is Suddenly
>
> laughing at the Harris clown show.
>

No more pretended christian?

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Siri Cruise wrote:
>> laughing at the Harris clown show.
>>
>
> No more pretended christian?

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