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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Since you are so easily discouraged you should definitely not click on the articles anymore.
Repeal the 19th!
A presidential campaign is a marathon not a sprint.
5.56mm
It isn’t a matter of me being discouraged. I read it in others around here who really buy into all the manufactured Kamala hype.
I am not blaming you for it at all.
It can demoralize some voters.
It can make the difference in MI, WI and PA.
So we'll have to come up with a game plan to counter all the propaganda by the Liberal Media.
Trump recieved a lot of free press in '16 because he wasn't taken seriously. After all, America was not going to vote for a "racist" over a qualified female candidate with decades of experience in Washington.
LOL....The GOP wouldn’t let him pass his agenda last time around. Every promise he made to his voters he had to find a way to make it happen all on his own.
They kneecapped him during the first two years, then purposely lost the House.
GOP is GARBAGE.
The crusty musty naivete on this site is quite the hoot. Reminds me of Hee Haw and Lawrence Welk.
Yes, I’m in AZ. I’ve seen a few anti-Harris ads, but none of them I’ve seen so far show any statement from Trump, and the criticisms of her are mostly general and they don’t show video of her openly professing her specific socialist positions.
Also, it’s subjective, I realize - but they don’t have the overall vibe of something that would come from Trump’s campaign, more like they’re from a lower (state/local?) level.
If Trump sticks to issues: Inflation, Border and Wars , we win, anything else is a distraction and that is what the MSM wants.
And if you want to help win, donate to get ads up or register voters
Too many of my fellow Trumpers do not realize that a campaign needs money to win, for ads,suppor staff and get out the vote.Too many talk a good game but don’t do anything to help win,
If someone doesn’t want to donate directly to the GOP or Trump campaign consider this young man: Scott Pressler he helped defeat Hillary Clinton is registering voters to help Trump win, https://earlyvoteaction.com/
for more
see more about him here
pressler https://x.com/ScottPresler
For true Catholics, (not Catholics in Name Only ) that are supporting Trump with ads and get out the vote
See CatholicVote.com
Concern troll is concerned.
STFU!
Grow up fool.
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