Trump Is Suddenly Running Scared

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/08/trump-polls-kamala-harris-vance/679333/?gift=rCMD7TuuSyRdM798jURNbJFe_z9x_mRPTBBd-4Tax8E

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  1. I don’t care how scared he is. Doesn’t matter if people don’t vote.

  4. You would think with all his fuckery **Karma**la will finally catch up with him.

  5. Well in his defense he is extremely old and weak with advanced dementia so of course he’s perpetually scared.

    Also he’s morbidly obese and weird

  7. He probably needs to start thinking about getting in “prison shape”.

  10. The only thing running on Trump is his big lying mouth. You never know what kind of nonsense is going to come out.

  11. Anyone else see Rs calling liberalism, fascism, which is a far-right ideology? Why are they so dumb?

  12. He’s literally showing more fear toward Harris than he did to a bullet. She’s that badass

  13. It is over for Trump.

    He is old, lame and women are not interested in being slaves owned by men.

    Project 2025 is a total turnoff.

  14. >“I want to be nice,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Minnesota. “They all say, *I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed since two weeks ago. Something affected him.* No, I haven’t changed—maybe I’ve gotten worse, actually.”

    I thought he was going to pivot? I thought the attempt on his life was going to sober him? Guess a weird little slug can’t change his spots.

  15. It is a true pleasure to watch Trump squirm when things do not go his way. The press and media need to stop propping him up.

  16. Trump is suddenly ~~running~~ golf cart driving scared

  18. What is best in life?

    To crush Trump, see Trump driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their maga.

  20. You’d be scared too if you were him. He’s about to lose his second consecutive campaign for the White House. He’s been convicted and awaits sentencing in NY and the federal case tied to the Jan. 6 uprising is back in front of the judge for prosecution. His entire future looks bleak and the idea of imprisonment remains. He may opt to flee to a nation that would accept him. Not hard to determine which those are.

  21. But in the alternate reality of r/conservative it’s actually Harris that’s scared, because she won’t back out of the ABC debate like trump. 

  22. His whole future is a hedge bet in his Presidency.

    If he wins, then he gets to bail himself out of all his criminal charges, get back at his enemies, and grease the right avenues to secure a future out of term.

    If he loses, he has to face the ramifications of a life based on lies, corruption, and an extremely fragile ego.

  24. That jail is starting to look very promising for him, if I was him I’d be scared also!

  27. “Running” scared? Somehow I doubt he’s ever run in his life. “Lumbering scared”, maybe. “Shuffling scared”, more likely.

  28. This is the way, ridicule him, taunt him. Laugh AT HIM.

    The passive, diplomatic, taking the high road way NEVER worked against a bully.

  31. Running?

    More like driving off in a golf cart scared. The only thing he hates more than the truth is cardio.

  32. This whole MAGA movement needs to be tossed off a cliff.

  33. He’s gonna lose, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving man… because when he does his chickens are going to come home to roost like pterodactyls from hell!

  34. Well, yeah, he’s gotta deal with Republicans for Harris… I haven’t seen any news about Democrats for Trump yet. I’m sorry ever.

  35. Lie! Trump hasn’t run anywhere other than the toilet in 37 years!

  38. For those up against a paywall:

    “Somehow, it was just two weeks ago that Donald Trump headed into the Republican National Convention looking like a juggernaut. That all feels like a long time ago. As his campaign enters its final three months, Trump looks like a man off balance. His polling lead has evaporated, his campaign strategy is obsolete, and he’s flaunting his most offensive tendencies.

    “I want to be nice,” Trump said Saturday at a rally in Minnesota. “They all say, I think he’s changed. I think he’s changed since two weeks ago. Something affected him. No, I haven’t changed—maybe I’ve gotten worse, actually.”

    Early last month, everything was going Trump’s way. He had led the presidential race against the incumbent, Joe Biden, since fall 2023, and the polls were only getting better for him after Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 27 debate. As good as the national polls looked, the swing-state surveys were even better. Trump had been an underdog in each of his first two campaigns, and had won the first and lost the second. In the third, he was poised to lead wire to wire. As my colleague Tim Alberta reported, the Trump team was dreaming of a landslide.

    David A. Graham: Donald Trump questions whether Kamala Harris is really Black

    And all of that was before Trump survived an assassination attempt. Though the experience was horrifying, it produced an unforgettable image, drew widespread sympathy, and created an aura of invincibility—if not messianism—around him. It also gave him an opportunity to strike a more unifying tone and get out of the muck.

    Yet speculation about Trump pivoting to unity was never very believable, as anyone who’s lived through the past decade knows, and he couldn’t even make it through his 90-minute nomination-acceptance speech without falling back into recriminations.

    Having built much of his campaign around Biden’s senescence, Trump now faces Vice President Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee instead. The former president has seemed unsure of how to most effectively hit Harris and get off the back foot. He’s begun laying the groundwork to beg off a second debate, scheduled for September 10, and Harris has been happy to taunt him about it.

    In her first 10 days as the party’s standard-bearer, Harris has improved nearly every indicator for Democrats. She leads some national polls and has erased or closed the gap with Trump in swing-state

    Crucially, she has made big progress toward fixing the problem of lagging Democratic enthusiasm. Eight in 10 Democrats say they’re satisfied with her as the nominee, more than double Biden’s figure in mid-July. Donors who closed their coffers as Biden faltered have written big checks. Volunteer numbers have surged, and so have voter registrations for Democrats. A burst of excitement was to be expected when Harris replaced Biden, but she’s managed to sustain it beyond just a blip. The data guru Nate Silver, who had been bullish for months on Trump’s chances, declared yesterday that the election is a toss-up.

    But you don’t need Silver to tell you that. Just watch how Trump is acting.

    Meanwhile, many Republicans spent the past week grumbling about Senator J. D. Vance, Trump’s running mate. Vance’s selection was a signal of Trump’s confidence: The Ohioan is a MAGA hard-liner, meant to consolidate excitement in the Republican base. Instead, he has become a drag on the ticket. Now infamous for insulting “childless cat ladies,” he is the least popular running mate in recent history. Some observers even wondered whether Trump would replace him on the ticket.

    Instead, Trump outdid him. Appearing at the National Association of Black Journalists conference on Wednesday, Trump insulted the organization, stumbled over explaining what a “Black job” is, and vowed to pardon January 6 rioters. But the wildest remark came when he questioned whether Harris is actually Black. (She is the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father.)

    “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, but when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black. So I don’t know, is she Indian, or is she Black?”

    Trump’s claim is not, for the record, remotely true: Harris has always talked about both sides of her heritage. Faced with widespread condemnation and warnings from Republicans that he’d gone too far, Trump stuck to the line later on Wednesday and yesterday. Finding himself in a hole, Trump tossed aside his shovel and reached for a jackhammer.

    Trump making offensive remarks, his campaign in disarray after the RNC, Democrats riding high behind a historic female candidate—it all feels a lot like summer 2016. Everyone knows how that election turned out. Trump is in a much worse place than he was on July 15, but he could still easily win. Harris’s vibe shift could run out of steam, a Trump punch could land, or some new crisis could reshape the race.

    Three months, after all, is a long time. Just ask Donald Trump how much can change in two weeks.

  39. For most anyone else I would pity them. But not this disgusting POS. He has been such a vile, racist awful, awful person I just want him to suffer in every conceivable way possible.

  41. Trump ,The weird Felon, born wiith a silver spoon is not scared of anything. He has been a bully since young age and his Dad sent him to reform school.
    Its all about him, himself and I. Not American people.

  42. It’s an ACT. He wants people to think they don’t need to vote for Kamala. VOTE.

  44. Trump looks like a man off balance.

    He is just plan WEIRD

    His polling lead has evaporated.

    It is a mirror image of 2016-Hillary Clinton thought she was going to be the first woman president and she took her foot off the pedal . Trump swooped in & won! Only this time if he loses he will burn this country down. He will lie lie lie again and claim it was stolen which he keeps repeating with NO proof whatsoever!!!!

    His campaign strategy is obsolete

    Really? Com on now-just lie, lie, lie and talk about Hannibal Lecter this his strategy

    He’s flaunting his most offensive tendencies

    Racist speaking is the only thing he excels in

    WEIRD

  45. [Vote.gov](http://Vote.gov) or [vote.org](http://vote.org)

    Register. Double check your registration to make sure it is active.

    Note to the almost 18 year olds: if you are 18 on or before Nov 5th you can register to vote and then vote in this election.

  48. 2020 was a rebuke of Trump, the person.

    2024 will be a rebuke of MAGA, Trump and his followers.

    Everytime Harris gets a vote a right winger cries.

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