‘I’m Entitled To Personal Attacks’: Trump’s Anger Derails Attempt to Reset Campaign
Republican making series of nonsensical claims
Donald Trump’s rage and apparent failure to deal with reality seems to have doomed his attempt to right his presidential campaign after weeks of flailing after Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Trump, like Harris, last week tried to put a spotlight on economic issues in a campaign that has seen him flounder and lose ground to the vice president since she became the new presumptive Democratic nominee in late July.
Trump has not been able to find his footing against Harris, where he’s largely engaged in offensive and racist attacks and comments on Harris personally and her racial identity.
Trump shook up his top campaign team, who hoped a press conference at his Bedminster, NJ, golf club would reset his campaign.
The former president, however, could not stay on the planned economic message.
Not only did he make bizarre and nonsensical claims like “substantially more” than 100 percent of recent US job creation going to migrants, he veered back towards his familiar themes of grievance.
“I’m very angry at her. I think I’m entitled to personal attacks. I don’t have a lot of respect for her. I don’t have a lot of respect for her intelligence. And I think she’ll be a terrible president,” Trump said. “And I think it’s very important that we win. And whether the personal attacks are good, bad — I mean, she certainly attacks me personally. She actually called me weird, ‘he’s weird.’”
Trump has very little left to offer voters, according to political analysts and others.
“He only has the card of division and hate and ridicule and dismissiveness, and that is the card that he continues to trot out over and over and over again,” said Sen Laphonza Butler (D-Calif). “He hasn’t yet to talk about what he actually plans to do about inflation and rising costs that American families are facing. He has yet to say anything, except repeal the Affordable Care Act. He has yet to talk about anything more relevant to migration and our border security, then saying, build a wall, and that was eight years ago.
“What does he have to say about how he is going to move the American people forward is a mystery to all of us. But, that’s all he’s got,” she added.
Trump is panicking because if he loses the election he will “face the bar of justice,” given the raft of criminal charges pending against him, according to David Axelrod, a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
“He thought that he had won when we were in Milwaukee [for the Republican National Convention]. The talk there was of landslide and it was it felt like the they were talking about the terms of surrender that they were going to demand and he was very he felt very serene that he had beaten is now all of a sudden his life is flashing before his eyes, and I think it’s one of the things that‘s unsettling him,” Axelrod said. “But they sent him out yesterday to do a press conference one or two days ago about the economy and his big challenge is to make her the incumbent not the turn-the-page candidate. And he wants to link her to Biden in a way that will make her the incumbent and that was what the press conference was all about.
“Instead, he blew himself up and spent 10 minutes on his legal problems and lashing out at in other places. And he overwhelmed the message of his own press conference,” he added. “He is not a competent candidate right now and one of the questions about this debate is, is that the guy who‘s going to step on the debate stage?”
Trump also made the absurd — and false — claim that he is polling at 93-percent support.
“I mean, obviously, this is Donald Trump being Donald Trump, which really goes to the point of: How we know he is just trying to set up these great lies for when he loses, and saying things like, ‘I told you back in August, I was at 93 percent in the polls,’” said Susan del Percio, a Republican strategist and political analyst. “It’s all things that are going to a greater evil doing by Donald Trump.”
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