Posted on 08/10/2024 2:14:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
People around the former and would-be president see a candidate knocked off his bearings, disoriented by his new contest with Kamala Harris and unsure of how to take her on.
The Aug. 2 dinner at the Bridgehampton, N.Y., home of Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive, was a high-powered affair. Among the roughly 130 people who dined under an air-conditioned tent were some of Donald Trump’s wealthiest supporters, including the billionaire hedge-fund financier Bill Ackman, who sat next to the former president, and Omeed Malik, the president of another fund, 1789 Capital.
Some guests hoped Mr. Trump would signal that he was recalibrating after a series of damaging mistakes. He did not.
Before the dinner, answering a question that voiced concerns about the upcoming election during a small round-table discussion inside Mr. Lutnick’s house, Mr. Trump said, “We’ve got to stop the steal,” reviving yet again his false claims about the 2020 election — claims that his advisers have urged him to drop because they don’t help him with swing voters.
According to two people present, Mr. Trump himself also brought up his remark, made two days earlier at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists, in which he had questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity.
It had been a display of flagrant race-baiting that was egregious even by Mr. Trump’s standards, and it instantly reprogrammed America’s TV news chyrons: He falsely claimed that Ms. Harris had only recently decided to identify as Black for political purposes.
But Mr. Trump showed no regret. “I think I was right,” he told the rattled donors that Friday night.
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My arse, too.
You aperently don’t live in Philly.
It's important to know what the enemy is up to, distasteful as it may be.
This is the crap Trump always gets by some on our side. If he didn’t do anything to help Senate and House candidates and won the Presidency, but lost the House and lost the Senate, he would be flamed and blamed for not doing anything for other candidates and that is why he can’t get things done.
If he isn’t holding a rally every day, he is accused of not trying to win. The man does have to rest once in a while.
He has an interview with Elon Musk coming up on Monday.
What guy watching baseball would vote for that twat Kamala? Waste of ad money by the commies.
The media turned on Hillary in the final weeks of her campaign over her email scandals.
They will not turn on Kamala.
The problem is more that the working class white guy watching baseball is one of the 24 million working class white guys in America who aren't even registered to vote.
So, babseball guy isn't going to vote for Kamala because he's not going to vote for anyone.
All of those middle-aged white women who made up 90% of the crowd at her Arizona rally yesterday? They WILL be voting for Kamala.
Oh, no!
That means all those people going to Trump rallies are going to vote for Camilla!
Woe is us!
“If he isn’t holding a rally every day, he is accused of not trying to win. The man does have to rest once in a while.”
The countless ads I see for Harris aren’t live...they just show stills and video clips of her (i.e., they require none of her time and energy). There is a mountain of stuff with which to attack her, yet I see zero ads. Trump doesn’t even have to appear in them. Where are the ads?
They will if they’re told to. They turned on Hillary, they turned on Biden.
People need to know what the left is up to, but not to the point of over emphasizing their propaganda over and over.
It can demoralize some voters.
Face it, they have all the TV and cable outlets and major trash newspapers shilling for them. They get a lot of free press because of the obvious bias.
We don’t need to help them. In spite of what some around here say, people that support Trump aren’t a cult, they are those that stand firm for him and don’t allow the media to stifle their enthusiasm because they know that Trump has to work so much harder than that Hoe and her commie cohort.
No. Everyone going to a Trump rally will be voting for Trump.
Of course, Trump rally attendees make up about 0.0001% of the electorate.
“...they were not prepared for the predictable switch to Kamala Harris.”
Seriously?! If any one of us could see it, then they probably did, and were ready. Why do you think they were not prepared? They started running ads against her almost immediately.
They never expected Hillary to lose. They fully expected Biden to lose and wanted him out of the race.
They will not make the same mistake with Kamala that they did with Hillary. They'll be in full protection mode.
White women are going to vote for her. They are going to vote gender. They were raised that way. Whole generations of them will not be able to resist the idea of a woman as president. It wasn’t Blacks who got Obama elected twice. It was White women, just by their sheer numbers in the voter rolls. They were novelty elections, turning things upside down, a Black dude in the White House. Women love to do that kind of s&^t with their smug little smiles. It wasn’t White men. Women votes have historically been hell on America, and now we have 50 million illegals who have access to the polls as well to add to the sordid mix. It’s just about to get a lot worse. And I don’t own or rent pearls.
Even if they were sure Hillary would win, why turn on her?
When he makes a campaign appearance in Ohio, a state he already has locked up, it will be to help Bernie Moreno take the Senate seat from Sherrod Brown. Trump needs a GOP Senate and House too!
Yes, because Trump ignoring his campaign advisors efforts to focus the race on Kamala's far left positions and going off script to attack Brian Kemp and Joe Rogan is totally unbelievable.
Well then it was stupid for The Hoe to be putting ads on during baseball games. The guys got up and got a beer and took a leak during her ads.
There were ads in newspapers looking to hire people for her rally in AZ.
Your problems is that you give too much credence to that woman and that rubber mouth clown Walz.
There are many many women who are not voting for Kamala so cut it out.
Because it turned into an FBI investigation which was impossible to ignore.
The FBI today will not be investigating Kamala.
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