Trump’s Basic Problem? Two Crazy Chiefs, And No Indians

Just a lighthearted start to this article this evening, which actually ties into the main point. Kamala Harris’s campaign has opened up a floodfate of grassroots enthusiasm. There’s Black Women for Harris, which almost crashed the platform, and raised $1.5 million for the campaign, Black Men for Harris who performed similarly, Hispanics for Harris, as well as White Dudes for Harris, which are now up and running. Now you can add in the ultimate Trump/Vance tail twist, Cat Ladies for Harris. No sh*t.

Now, let’s tie it together. When it comes to crunch time, the old political adage is that The candidate can’t be everywhere at once. Truer words. After all, there’s so many places to go, rallies to attend, funds to raise, but only one Kamala Harris, and only one Air Force Two.

And so you need surrogates to fill in for you, keep the juice flowing and the spirits high. And Kamala Harris has a whole cornucopia of surrogates and attack dogs to choose from. This has always been important to the Biden-Harris campaign, since the campaign travel schedule was set up for the travel limitations of an 81 year old man. The Harris nomination eases that problem, she can travel at will.

Even so, just look at this Murderers Row of surrogates and attack dogs. There’s Tim Walz, Gretchen Witmer, Andy Bashear, Josh Shapiro, Doug Emhoff and Pete Buttigieg. And on the bench you have at your disposal Bill and Hillary Clinton, President Joe and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, and Former President and First Lady Barack and Michelle Obama. The biggest problem for the Harris team will be travel coordination and keeping them all busy.

Now let’s look at Traitor Tot, and we’ll start with a little ride on the old Straight Talk Express. The Trump of today is not the Trump of 2020, or especially 2016. In 2016 Trump was 70, and full of piss and vinegar. His appetite for crowds and applause was insatiable. He regularly hopped onto Trump Force One and hit 2-3 rallies a day before jetting back to Mar-A-Lago or bedminster to sleep. Even in 2020, with Covid raging, he regularly hopped into Air Force One to hold super spreader events.

This Trump 3.0 is 78 years old. He’s slower, doesn’t have anything on his fastball anymore, meanders, and with that lien on his assets from the NY AG, I’m not so sure that Traitor Tot doesn’t have to lease a private jet from campaign funds to pootle around. Now he’s averaging 3-4 rallies a month. Part of this was arrogance, Trump feeling he had it in the bag, so why strain himself. But mostly it’s age.

Which means that right now, especially after he got no bounce at all from his convention, Trump needs a whole platoon of surrogates to a) spread the good word, and b) Try to moderate his message to appeal to undecided voters he desperately needs. And what kind of worlds class deep bench does His Lowness have to fall back on? Ummm;

• His handpicked wingnut wingman, Vice Presidential candidate Beggar Vance. At this point Vance isn’t even so much as a mixed blessing. Every time he opens his hillbilly mouth, Traitor Tot has to either suffer in silence, or come out to disavow whatever insane sh*t Vance just spouted
• Eric Trump. Since the assassination attempt, Eric Trump seems to have risen to the post of the sane Trump campaign spokesman. Eric issued the family comments following the shooting, and during the convention was the one who made the rounds of the spin room and network boxes. But somehow, seeing and watching Eric Trump trying to spread the good word is like having a couple of Jehovah’s Witnesses show up at your door during dinner
• Lara Trump. She is now the patronage co-Chair of the Republican National Committee. All you need to know about this beauty is that, while she is the second most powerful person at the RNC, and had a prime time speaking role at the convention, she survived less than 90 seconds before the networks switched back over to their booth coverage
• Alina Habba. Now I’m really scraping out the bottom of the kitty litter box. But it’s true. One of Traitor Tot’s small country of high paid ambulance chasers, she was nonetheless caught today speaking at some sort of Trump event. Where she sarcastically and racially offensively manner, attacked Harris for the made up con job over Harris’s true racial lineage

Sorry, but that’s all I got. Sure, there are probably bottom feeder MAGAt’s like Machine Gun Marjie, Gym Bag Jordan, Bratty Matty Gaetz, and even House Squeaker MAGA Mike Johnson. But all of those are fringe wingnuts without the national chops to really command enough attention to make a difference in the election. Mostly they’re in it as much for their fundraising as Trump’s.

So there you have it. While Generals may run a campaign, it’s the foot soldiers that win the battles. And with that analogy in mind, right now Kamala Harris has Seal Team Six on her side, while Traitor Tot is making due with a ragtag Michigan militia. Gee, the suspense is about to kill me.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.

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