Donald Trump is afraid of the marketing campaign path, his ballot numbers are cratering, the deplorable influencers are leaping ship, and his on-line rantings have crossed over into the hysterical ravings of a lunatic. In the meantime, Vice President Kamala Harris and her operating mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are setting the marketing campaign path on hearth.
Issues aren’t trying nice for Workforce MAGA.
Trump held a marketing campaign occasion in Montana on Friday. As a result of every part that would go unsuitable goes unsuitable, his aircraft had a mechanical concern and was diverted to land in Billings, putting him 150 miles from his rally in Bozeman. The rally was scheduled to begin at 8 PM native time, and Trump didn’t take the stage till about 9:30 PM.
This was the one rally Trump scheduled within the 11 days between Aug. 2 and Aug. 14, and Montana isn’t even a battleground state—he received it by 16 proportion factors in 2020. At his Thursday press convention, a reporter requested Trump about his lack of public marketing campaign occasions, saying, “Some of your allies have expressed concern that you’re not taking this very seriously.”
“What a stupid question this is,” he responded. However when pressed, he added, “Because I’m leading by a lot and because I’m letting their convention go through, and I am campaigning a lot. I’m doing tremendous amounts of taping here. We have commercials that are at a level I don’t think that anybody’s ever done before.”
For the file, in relation to fall advert reservations in battleground states, Democrats are spending over twice that of Republicans, so I’m unsure what he’s speaking about there.
Maybe Trump is avoiding campaigning due to his underwhelming crowd sizes? Right here is Trump’s pathetic turnout in Montana, made even funnier by the determined hype efforts from this right-wing media operation:
Right here is the Harris rally in Arizona the identical day:
Trump hasn’t held a rally in Arizona since June 6, which is over two months in the past.
And Harris’ crowds the previous few days have been equally spectacular in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Perhaps Trump is avoiding campaigning as a result of he’s in apparent cognitive decline. Throughout his Montana rally, his speech was typically slurred and he commonly took lengthy, complicated pauses between ideas. His handlers need to know that his public appearances are little doubt reminding most People why they don’t like him, and likewise simply how outdated he’s. Republicans spent a 12 months arguing that being the oldest candidate within the area was dangerous—and now that’s backfired.
Moreover, his declare on the press convention that he’s “leading by a lot” is flatly false. Simply take a look at the most recent high-quality polls from The New York Instances/Siena Faculty, the place, after main a lot of the 12 months, Trump is now going through a critical deficit in the important thing battlegrounds of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Harris leads all three by the identical 50-46 margin amongst seemingly voters. These polls aren’t a fluke, both. In 538’s nationwide polling common, Harris has opened up a lead of over 2 factors.
It’s nonetheless an in depth race, and nobody is pretending Harris has this within the bag, however Trump positive is pretending he has it within the bag—and it seems to be preserving him off the marketing campaign path.
Including to the dangerous information for Trump, well-known podcaster Joe Rogan appeared to endorse Robert Kennedy Jr. on Thursday,
“They gaslight you, they manipulate you, they promote narratives, and the only one who is not doing that is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” Rogan informed his thousands and thousands of younger, male listeners, including, “He’s the only one that makes sense to me. He doesn’t attack people. He attacks actions and ideas. But he’s much more reasonable and intelligent.”
These feedback got here amongst a swell of Trump skepticism from right-wing figures like gun-rights extremist Kyle Rittenhouse, white supremacist Nick Fuentes, and neo-Nazi Richard Spencer. And whereas Rogan and Rittenhouse subsequently walked again their statements after going through MAGA backlash, it betrays an absence of religion and enthusiasm from those that ought to be Trump’s fiercest, most excited supporters.
No matter is preserving Trump off the marketing campaign path actually isn’t preserving him off Fact Social, his Twitter clone. His newest rantings there present that he’s much more unmoored from actuality.
On Saturday, he claimed Harris has agreed to 3 debates with him, together with one on Sept. 4 on Fox Information. The reality? Harris has agreed to at least one debate to date, on ABC Information on Sept. 10.
The identical day, minutes after Harris endorsed ending taxes on ideas, Trump posted, “Kamala Harris, whose ‘Honeymoon’ period is ENDING, and is starting to get hammered in the Polls, just copied my NO TAXES ON TIPS Policy. The difference is, she won’t do it, she just wants it for Political Purposes!” As an alternative of holding his personal rallies, he was apparently watching hers!
However his craziest outburst got here Sunday morning, when he posted this screed:
Has anybody observed that Kamala CHEATED on the airport? There was no person on the aircraft, and she or he “A.I.’d” it, and confirmed an enormous “crowd” of so-called followers, BUT THEY DIDN’T EXIST! She was turned in by a upkeep employee on the airport when he observed the faux crowd image, however there was no person there, later confirmed by the reflection of the mirror like end on the Vice Presidential Airplane. She’s a CHEATER. She had NOBODY ready, and the “crowd” appeared like 10,000 folks! Identical factor is occurring together with her faux “crowds” at her speeches. That is the best way the Democrats win Elections, by CHEATING – And so they’re even worse on the Poll Field. She ought to be disqualified as a result of the creation of a faux picture is ELECTION INTERFERENCE. Anybody who does that may cheat at ANYTHING!
It virtually goes with out saying that the crowd-size conspiracy idea was rapidly debunked by quite a few information shops.
He so desperately needs he have been nonetheless operating in opposition to President Joe Biden, and seems unable to grasp that he’s getting beat by a Black girl. In the meantime, Trump operating mate JD Vance is a strolling catastrophe creepily stalking Harris’ marketing campaign occasions, chatting with crowds of dozens.
In the meantime, the Harris-Walz marketing campaign is nothing however good vibes.
This pleasure and enjoyable is even higher than Barack Obama’s hope. That is life, and Trump’s ugly darkness is dropping the battle.
