The Harris marketing campaign delivered the proper response to Trump’s press convention, the place the extra he talked, the extra he sank.
Trump referred to as it a information convention, however the occasion he held was an act of political implosion.
The Harris marketing campaign launched the next assertion after Trump’s efficiency:
Donald Trump took a break from taking a break to placed on some pants and host a p̶r̶e̶s̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ public meltdown.
We’ve so much to say about it. Listed below are some preliminary ideas – with extra to return.
He hasn’t campaigned all week. He isn’t going to a single swing state this week. However he positive is mad Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are getting large crowds throughout the battlegrounds.
The information had been onerous to trace and tougher to seek out in Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago meltdown this afternoon.
He lied. He attacked the media. He made excuses for why he’s off the marketing campaign path.
We’re right here to assist as a result of his workers clearly isn’t.
However first, an necessary reminder on the query Donald didn’t reply: how he’ll vote on the Florida abortion referendum. (He has been ducking this query since April.)
We labored to pin down actuality so Donald Trump, bless his coronary heart, doesn’t should. Listed below are the information:
We had 12,000 and 15,000 individuals in Wisconsin and Michigan yesterday, respectively (Not 2,000.)
The ABC debate is September tenth. Not the twenty fifth.
Folks have spoken to larger crowds than Donald Trump. (Obama, Clinton, actually anybody at Lollapalooza, Coachella, the World Cup…)
January sixth was decidedly nothing like MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. And Trump didn’t get a much bigger crowd than Martin Luther King Jr. on that historic day.
There was famously not a “peaceable switch” of energy after the 2020 election, which Donald Trump fought to overturn. (Famously.)
5 law enforcement officials died due to January sixth.
Donald Trump stated he was off the path this week due to the Democratic conference. (That conference will not be occurring this week.)
Trump stated they’ve commercials at a degree nobody else does. (He’s being drastically outspent on the airwaves.)
Governor Josh Shapiro is definitely a nice man.
Undertaking 2025 creator Tom Homan, the “father” of Trump’s merciless little one separation coverage, will not be an individual to reward.
Jewish individuals mustn’t “have their head examined” for not supporting him. (That’s truly antisemitic.)
Trump stated he was not complaining. He actually very a lot was.
Trump doesn’t know the distinction between asylum seekers and an insane asylum.
Donald Trump doesn’t “cherish” the Structure.
Abortion will not be “much less of a problem” for voters. It’s not “subdued.” It’s not a “small challenge” for voters, regardless of how a lot Donald Trump needs it to be.
Donald Trump didn’t reply the abortion query “very effectively within the debate.”
Everyone didn’t need Roe v. Wade overturned. The American individuals don’t help states banning abortion.
After-birth abortion doesn’t exist.
Minnesota and Virginia will not be the identical.
Donald Trump doesn’t know what progressive means.
Kamala Harris doesn’t wish to take away everybody’s weapons. Tim Walz is a gun proprietor.
Vice President Harris doesn’t help an arms embargo on Israel.
Donald Trump couldn’t keep in mind Tim Walz’s title.
Donald Trump’s tax cuts will not be the greatest in historical past.
We don’t know what “the transgender grew to become such an enormous factor” is meant to imply.
Donald Trump will reduce Social Safety – identical to he proposed yearly he was in workplace.
Authorities was not weaponized towards Trump and Steve Bannon.
Mail ballots are safe.
We agree – Elon IS a special type of man.
There are not any polls that say Donald Trump goes to win in a landslide.
The MAGA base will not be 75% of the nation.
Generally, campaigns can’t assist themselves, they usually lack the self-discipline to step again and let their opponent self-destruct.
This wasn’t an issue for the Harris-Walz marketing campaign. They aren’t stepping into the insult recreation or the tit-for-tat with Trump that he likes a lot.
Donald Trump has been politically drowning since President Biden stepped apart and Vice President Harris entered the race. The second that the Democratic coalition unified round Harris, the nation’s political gravity shifted, and Trump has been shedding floor ever since.
The information convention was an try by a determined candidate to get the momentum again. Kamala Harris may have made the error of leaping into the fray with Trump and coming all the way down to his degree.
She didn’t.
Donald Trump is drowning, and Harris is not going to rescue him.
Awards and Skilled Memberships
Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
