‘You’ve Got to Vote for Me Even if You Don’t Like Me’
Trump goes to last-ditch ploy as race slips away from him
Donald Trump is getting desperate.
Vice President Kamala Harris has been surging in the polls and none of Trump’s personal attacks against her have dented her popularity.
Indeed, more Americans now have a favorable opinion of Harris than they do of Trump.
So the former president has started going to an old chestnut he has when the chips are down: “Vote for me, even if you don’t like me.”
Trump launched into that rather pathetic fallback position Wednesday evening during an appearance on Fox News.
Trump has gone there before.
He’s been making the same pitch since at least 2019, ahead of the election he lost the following year.
Facing the pressure, he went down the same road during his appearance with Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity.
Trump veered into it while he was criticizing Harris over her past opposition to the so-called process of “fracking.”
“And you have somebody that's not going to allow fracking, she's not going to allow it, you can’t take the chance. You have no choice. You've gotta vote for me, I have — you've gotta vote for me,” he said.
Trump also introduced a new topic in his repertoire of weird topics for a presidential candidate to discuss: mosquitoes.
In recent months, he’s gone on bizarre riffs on the fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter as well as shark attacks and electric boats. And now he’s added the tiny, bloodsucking pests to the list.
Trump jumped on mosquitos as a complete non sequitur as he went on about one of his favorite grievances: the decision this summer for Harris to replace President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket.
“And he got 14 million votes and they threw them out. They said, ‘We want you out.’ And he wasn’t going to win, I don’t think, I mean, I don’t think he was going to win, but we did good debate, we had a good debate and it was a fair debate, and he was down like 18 or 19 points after the debate — I hate mosquitoes,” Trump announced. “I’m surprised, I didn’t think we had — we don't like those mosquitoes running around. We want nothing to do with them. And we want nothing to do with bad politicians that hate our country, too, if you want to know the truth.”
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