‘The Fat Elvis Stage of His Career’: Enthusiasm for Trump Running Dry
Republican can't seem to match the enthusiasm for Kamala Harris
The interest and enthusiasm for Donald Trump as a political leader is running dry, according to an array of political analysts, including those who compare the former president to rock-'n'-roll icon Elvis Presley at the end of his career.
Trump increasingly is appearing politically impotent as he is unable to land any political damage to the surging candidacy of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Meanwhile, the false and racist attacks on Harris’s ethnicity that Trump is lobbing only are serving to turn off and alienate growing swaths of voters.
Trump’s aspirations to return to the White House next year have been flagging in recent weeks, ever since President Biden dropped out of the race for reelection and endorsed Harris to replace him at the top of the Democratic ticket.
Signs of Trump’s desperation only have grown in recent days since he spoke to a gathering of Black journalists and falsely accused Harris of only recently “turning Black.”
The truth is that Harris is biracial, born of an Indian mother and Jamaican father.
Further, Trump complained during a recent campaign rally in Atlanta Ga. He was peeved that he couldn’t fill the event venue when just days before Harris held her own rally at the same venue and hers was filled to the rafters with an enthusiastic crowd.
His waning political power is becoming apparent to those across the political spectrum.
“Well, first, I’ve got to give a shout-out to my friend Charlie Sykes. I spit coffee over the weekend when I saw how he referred to Trump, that Trump is in the ‘fat Elvis’ stage of his career. I mean, I love that. I love that. So I didn’t want to go any further in this program without giving love to my fellow pundit, Charlie Sykes, for the fat Elvis,” former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill said in an on-camera appearance on MSNBC, referring to her fellow pundit, former Republican Sykes. “And, by the way, Fat Elvis is worried and so is the weirdo he picked as his running mate.”
David Jolly, a one-time Republican congressman-turned-Trump-critic, also noted that Trump seems to be running out of steam with his racist jibes at his opponent.
“This is a tired stick that Donald Trump is selling and there are enough Americans, even Republicans, who say, ‘I don’t want that,’” he said. “I liken Donald Trump Republicans to the romantic couple that’s now been dating for eight years and the spark was there in 2016 and both couples saw it and now they’re just tired of each other. This is a tired story and it’s not going to work for Trump.”
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