Donald Trump Has No Idea What Has Hit Him, and It’s a Joy to Watch |
He’s had yet another horrible week. The old tricks aren’t working. Kamala Harris does not fear him. And it’s showing in the numbers.

https://newrepublic.com/article/184951/donald-trump-flailing-harris

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  1. How come nobody is constantly and publicly calling out Trump for being a felon and insurrectionist and getting to be on the ballot? Start referring to him as his inmate number in Georgia P01135809. People need to start literally playing public data of him committing crimes.

  2. My only worry is that while she still has the lead Trumps numbers are improving in a lot of aggregates/odds. Might just be that I’m checking too often, but it does worry me.

  3. Moist_Albatross_5434 on

    What kind of weirdo buys a shit ton of cereal and puts it on a table outside? wtf. They just need to let the man retire, this is elder abuse.

  4. SamtheCossack on

    It only took twelve damn years for a Democrat to figure out the playbook that hasn’t changed from the first day.

    Well, better late than never I suppose.

  5. Murky-Site7468 on

    Trump claimed Harris is responsible for a law in California that says it’s OK to steal from a grocery store, that she doesn’t like Jewish people, that more than 100 percent of recent U.S. jobs have gone to migrants, that Harris is a “Communist” and said the country under her leadership would devolve into a commie dystopia in which “everyone gets health care” …

  6. Now we just need Joseph R. Biden to declare election week a holiday and establish Saturday and Sunday as permanent Election Days.

    We can call it the ‘Scranton Scramble’®

    I am thinking food, alcohol and sports.

  7. Finally a headline I love. Doesn’t get my hopes up but it’s great to be at a point that we can have a headline like this.

  8. Look at all us trump haters celebrating victory 3 months early. This race will be super close. Everyone has to vote or trump laughs last.

  9. No one has ever “feared” Don Old…except the bullied “cucks” of the GQP, of course.

  10. This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://newrepublic.com/article/184951/donald-trump-flailing-harris) reduced by 86%. (I’m a bot)
    *****
    > The pièce de résistance: At the Jewish event, he praised Miriam Adelson, the huge Trump donor and widow of Sheldon Adelson, mentioning that he'd given her a Presidential Medal of Freedom, which he noted was the civilian equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor but was "Actually much better" because people who receive the latter medal are "Either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets, or they're dead.".

    > You know how they say in sports that an opponent has gotten inside the other team's head? Well, Harris and Tim Walz have certainly gotten inside Trump's head. Walz's "Weird" comment, which Trump has also responded to in a, well, sort of weird way, was just the start.

    > Donald Trump is not and can't accept that fact.

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  11. No-Accident69 on

    I just hope Kamala doesn’t start claiming that she can cheat at golf better than the orange dope…

    Somehow Joe Biden went down that rabbit hole and it confirmed to me that he was done

    She must bring E Jean Carrol as an audience member, refer to her case in the debate and harp heavily on:

    Convicted criminal facing jail
    His cronies all in jail
    Old age
    Stupidity
    Project 2025 taking woman’s rights back to ancient times etc

  12. After a while Trump’s “thing” becomes less of an “enigma” and more “old, tiring, and boring”. You can only do the same thing for so long before it starts getting tiring to Americans.

  13. If you enjoy reading headlines like this, consider donating a little extra time and/or money to help continue making Trump a little more miserable every day.

  14. buttmunch2024 on

    When he shits his pants, is that orange and hot too? We need a Youtube channel just for TRUMP SCHADENFREUDE.

  15. Mother_Knows_Best-22 on

    “Trump is bound to find his footing and quit flailing as desperately as he has been.”

    No, he isn’t. He’s old, losing it, won’t take advice from anyone except himself and he’s running his campaign into the ground. Yay!

  16. AdrianInLimbo on

    Late July interview:

    “Joe Biden’s campaign only attracts flies”

    August 14th press conference
    Fly sits on DonOLDs face

  17. Gryffindumble on

    This feels like the part in the story of Stephen Kings It where the losers club finally gets the upper hand on Pennywise/IT and is ganging up on him. He went away for a few years and came back. This time, we are ready to not just scare him off but send him packing.

  18. One thing I love is Trump saying International leaders will not be intimidated by Harris if she wins. But trump is terrified of her.

  19. The left is finally punching back after 8 years of bullshit from Trump. It’s a bittersweet feeling. I wish they would have stood up to the pedophile years ago.

  20. The only thing he has is getting Kamala in front of a live microphone. Kamala has had a past of trip ups and slip ups and while they would pale in comparison to the brainrot that Trump espouses daily, all they need is one thing to latch onto to galvanize the morons. If she gets through debates clean, he will have absolutely nothing.

  21. The only way Trump knows how to run a campaign is no longer working – and now he is panicking. I expect we’ll see a lot more public displays of lashing out and bizzare behavior.

  22. Trump is furious that he can’t avenge his loss to Biden in 2020. He’ll go to his grave knowing he never got to get back at him.

  23. Whiney the Poo

    McFelon and Fraud LLC

    Frumpy Persona with an Aroma

    The Dribbler In-Chief

  24. He’s gotten old. His schtick has gotten old. And the whole thing just comes off as weird now.

  25. I absolutely love how they’re trying to repackage him as a sensible adult, capable of running the country which is the exact opposite of his true personality and not what his base expects from him. It’s Sideshow Bob and the rakes and I’m here for it. 

  26. In a woman, the Dems have finally found their balls again. This is the most hopeful I’ve felt since Obama.

  27. Strict-Marsupial6141 on

    It continues. Six days ago, *The New York Times* [ran a story](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html) under the headline “Inside the Worst Three Weeks of Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign.” Usually, when the country’s most important newspaper runs a story like that, the candidate pays a little attention and the ship begins to right itself. But in this case, it’s just gotten worse. The ship is capsizing, and the captain is losing his marbles.

    Right after that story ran, Trump came out with his wild accusation that Kamala Harris’s crowd of thousands at a Detroit airplane hangar was fake. The next night, he did that weird, to borrow an au courant word, interview with Elon Musk, where he made more WTF comments than I can recount, capped by his vow to move to Venezuela (a country ruled by a corrupt autocrat who just cheated massively in this month’s election) if he loses. On Wednesday, he gave a rambling speech at a North Carolina rally.

    Then, on Thursday, we had a little taste of some [peak Trump crazy](https://newrepublic.com/post/184939/donald-trump-derails-press-conference-campaign-strategy). He claimed Harris is responsible for [a law in California](https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-160551360299) that says [it’s OK to steal](https://x.com/atrupar/status/1824188075989155864) from a grocery store as long as your take is under $950. (This is not what the [law says](https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-08-12/what-is-california-proposition-47-how-proposition-36-could-change-crime-sentencing-drugs-theft).) He made strange comments about Cheerios. He lectured Jews (at a later event) about how if the Democrats win, Jewish people “don’t have a chance” in America, [saying of Harris](https://www.katv.com/news/beyond-the-podium/jewish-voices-for-trump-coalition-formed-to-combat-antisemitism-2024-presidential-election-politics)—whose husband is Jewish—that “she doesn’t like Jewish people. You know it, I know it, and everybody knows it, and nobody wants to say it.” And we can’t forget the assertion that more than 100 percent of recent U.S. jobs have gone to migrants.

    Meanwhile, what else is Harris doing? Starting to unveil an economic package that, so far anyway, looks pretty great. It’s aimed straight at middle-class voters and focused on housing and grocery prices. You can’t get more kitchen table than that. And the bit about [going after corporate price gougers](https://newrepublic.com/article/184937/harris-price-gouging-corporations) is great. It sends a nice populist signal that she’s willing to make some enemies.

    We’re coming up on a month now of Harris being the candidate. That isn’t much time, granted, and of course the race is still in margin-of-error territory and at some point, Trump is bound to find his footing and quit flailing as desperately as he has been.

    But all that said, the Harris campaign has been as shrewd as any presidential campaign I’ve ever seen. Her stump speech is excellent. The choice of Walz was great—their personal chemistry is so evident in that video they just released of the two of them chatting about spicy food and whatnot (the right is trying to gin up outrage over Walz saying he eats “white-guy tacos”). The focus on family economics recognizes a potential Harris weak spot and establishes the campaign as not being out of touch. They just haven’t done one thing wrong yet.

  28. Harris needs to pull the plug on his campaign on sept 10 n not let his zero none sense take the stage. She needs to show the world what he truly is weird. Vote Nov 5 n let freedom live. Fuck project 2025 n the republicans

  29. Personally, I would find it a lot more fun if Trump bowed out of the race and this insanity can come to a close.