Donald Trump is betting he won’t go down in flames by resorting to what he IS…..
A Big Egomaniac ….Lying….Bully……
Oh, ?
And a convicted 78 year old tFelon these days….
New York Times: “For decades, Trump has operated with an instinctive political style that he honed in the tribal and combative world of New York City politics, one that has taken him from Queens to Manhattan to the White House (and out of it).”
“Those instincts are being freshly tested as he struggles to settle on a message against Harris.”
“Instead of resetting his campaign after President Biden dropped out of the race, Trump has spent the past three and a half weeks grumbling about Harris’s crowd sizes, grousing about Biden’s exit and lobbing a barrage of politically risky insults about Harris’s race, first name and intelligence.”
“Donald Trump showed up in battleground North Carolina for a big speech on the economy – and one of his unhinged rallies broke out,” CNN reports.
“But amid the insults, trash talk, rage and lies, the former president blundered into the thing he’d been seeking for days: a strategy to take on Vice President Kamala Harris…”
“Trump’s still uncontrolled bitterness that he’s no longer running against Biden stole the headlines from a speech that his campaign billed as a serious exercise devoted to the economy – the issue that voters care about most.”
“But his remarks, at least the scripted version of them, offered the first signs that the Trump campaign is beginning to settle on a coherent, albeit extreme and divisive, plan to react to a new general election foe.”
“Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., his first event in a battleground state in nearly two weeks, was supposed to offer him a bit of a reset after his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, gained significant momentum,” the New York Timesreports.
“His top advisers have urged him to focus on policy issues, and he vowed to about 2,000 people in an Asheville auditorium that he would do just that, giving a speech that he said would focus squarely on the economy and inflation.”
“But in a speech lasting more than an hour, Mr. Trump often veered far from that aim. He jeered President Biden over being pressured to exit the race, frequently criticized the Biden administration’s immigration policy, broadly attacked undocumented immigrants as criminals and lobbed a series of personal attacks at Ms. Harris, whom he claimed had been chosen after Democrats ‘decided to get politically correct.’”
“The nickname game has been a staple of former President Trump’s campaigns — from Little Marco to Ron DeSanctimonious, his monikers made headlines,” Axios reports.
“But now, as the former president struggles to shift his messaging toward a new Democratic foe, he’s tried to launch a variety of labels for Vice President Kamala Harris — but they don’t seem to be sticking.”
Trump campaign brings back a knucklehead to hold Trump’s hand…..
Trump Brings Back Corey Lewandowski
“Donald Trump’s campaign is expanding its ranks as he seeks to regain his footing in the presidential campaign, bringing on a handful of top allies — including former Trump 2016 campaign manager Corey Lewandowski,” Politico reports.
“Lewandowski, who has remained an informal Trump adviser since his first campaign, is being brought on to advise the campaign’s senior leadership team, according to a person familiar with the move and granted anonymity to speak freely. He joins several other former Trump aides who will play similar roles.”