Talk about delusion, the mental health community should coin a phrase for the newest malady, Trump Syndrome, a scenario where a narcissist simply rewrites history in his head and what a fool believes, he sees. It’s interesting how Team Trump is pretending that everything is just fine and they’re on top of it. That has led to speculation, of course, that there is some nefarious MAGA plan in place to steal the election. And definitely there is. But whether the plan can succeed or whether it will fail egregiously like it did four years ago, in 61 court cases, is unclear. Put it this way, the sharpest political knives in the drawer are not working for Trump. Yes, he does have some competent strategists in Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita but it’s highly doubful that they’re spearheading his election-denying plans to steal 2024. They’re taking heat now from Trump, who feels ill used since Joe Biden decided to pass the torch. Washington Post:
In the face of new Democratic momentum, he has grown increasingly upset about Harris’s surging poll numbers and media coverage since replacing Biden on the ticket, complaining relentlessly and asking friends about how his campaign is performing, according to five people close to the campaign who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
“It’s unfair that I beat him and now I have to beat her, too,” Trump told an ally in a phone call last weekend.
Now what could he be alluding to? His fantasy of having won the 2020 election or his fantasy of having won the June 27 debate? He fell on his ass on both occasions, but evidently in his mind they’re both wins.
Allies have taken to finger-pointing over several events that seemingly went off the rails. Friends, Mar-a-Lago members and donors have logged their concerns with Trump, who then tells them to others, according to three people close to him. U.S. Senate allies and others are trying to get Trump focused on attacking Harris.
But for the first time since Trump established his dominance in the Republican nomination fight, his campaign has found itself publicly struggling to manage the daily news cycle as excitement around Harris has swelled along with her campaign activity. It has left people close to the campaign wondering why Trump and his team seemed ill-prepared, given that they had privately speculated for weeks after Biden’s disastrous June 27 debate performance that Harris was going to be the nominee.
“What’s happened in the last couple of weeks is we actually have a real race. This is a real presidential campaign. The Biden-Trump version of this was one event a week by each candidate, very rarely on the campaign trail and no real engagement,” said Kevin Madden, a Republican strategist who worked for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential effort. “Now this is going to be one of those campaigns where strategies matter, resources matter, time matters, and there is not much room for error.” […]
Despite going up with his first television spots of the general election, Trump and his allies are still being outspent in the battleground states. Over the first five days of August, Trump and his allies spent about $16.5 million on advertising, according to AdImpact, compared with about $23 million by Biden, Harris and their allies. From the beginning of March to early August, the Biden side has spent $309 million, compared with $110 million for the Trump side, according to the ad-tracking firm. […]
Trump has begun asking friends and allies how his campaign staff is doing — a question that some say could lead to staff changes, though the former president has not said he is planning that and has expressed support for campaign aides in recent days, a person close to him said. He has asked why Harris is raising so much more money than him, people familiar with the comments say. Trump has also repeatedly raised the large crowds that Harris is getting compared with Biden, people who have spoken to him said.
There you go again, the comparison of crowd size. Trump’s flipping out about that online and well he should because Harris/Walz is packing them in and he’s not.
Here’s the bottom line: Team Trump never came up with a Plan B in the case of Kamala. That’s their problem, that they were just plain stupid (or lazy) and simply hoped that they wouldn’t need a Plan B. That is ridiculous.
NEW. James Carville:
"Something is going on at Mar-a-Lago. I’m not sure what it is…LaCivita, Susie Wiles, they’re not stupid. They’ve won elections before…[But] they were just standing there feeling good about themselves…"
Watch the whole thing:https://t.co/ApCHMWmwZ5 pic.twitter.com/Qjs0BmZIVL
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 8, 2024
They don’t know what to do because they don’t have an elderly Democrat to throw ageist taunts at. They’re not equipped to deal with a ticket like Harris/Walz. And they’re going to lose and they know it.
I’m not a political expert or anything, but this seems like a lousy way to run a campaign.
Right now, tRump plays golf, Vance chases after Kamala, making for a lousy contrast.
It just seems like a half-a$$ed effort on their part. Also seems like a way to lose an election.
Stupidity on the part of the enemy is a gift without measure. Here’s to hoping von shitzinpants and hillbilly boy keep on doing what they’re doing.
Trump has always glommed onto a few good polls and believed that meant it was all over, written in stone he’s the winner even with months left to go. in his six year old mentality no taksie backsies.