Sources say campaign is concerned that Trump may engage in the kind of self-sabotage that turned off voters in 2020
Donald Trump’s campaign is most concerned going into the debate against Kamala Harris with the former president’s mood, afraid that the mercurial Trump could engage in the kind of self-sabotage that turned off voters in the 2020 presidential election, according to people familiar with the situation.
The campaign’s internal refrain is whether they get “happy Trump” or “angry Trump”, the people said, as they count down the days to perhaps the final presidential debate this cycle.
Tuesday night’s televised debate is widely seen as a crux moment in the rebooted 2024 campaign. Since Joe Biden dropped out of the race after a campaign-killing debate performance crystalized fears over his age and mental acuity, Harris has turned the race on its head.
Hey my bet is on stupid trump!
That’s cheating
Yet both of those are still the rapey version.
Why not both? And all of them will be incoherent and rambling.
I think Trump is going to snort enough of whatever he snorts that he shows up energized. What he says will be rambling nonsense, as it always is, but he’ll say it confidently. The story on the Trump side will be that he exceeded expectations, and that he’s going to gain momentum again.
Harris is more of an X factor, but the buildup to the debate (felon vs. prosecutor) means that she has to win decisively in the eyes of both the left and the middle just to meet expectations. I hope she somehow exceeds them or has a few moments that steal the show, but it’s more likely that Trump being able to speak semi-coherently will be the top story regardless of anything Harris does.
I hope I’m wrong.
I’ve been wondering the same thing for a long time now. People seem so excited to see Harris “beat” Trump in a debate but it’s obvious that will never happen in any meaningful sense. Trump’s supporters are clearly not using any traditional (or rational) metric to evaluate his public speaking and people who don’t support Trump will only find things to nitpick Harris on. I don’t see the upside for Harris unless she knocks it out of the park and that’s such a stupid situation to be in considering the obvious disparity in the quality of these two candidates.
Yep. Im more worried than excited. I see very little opportunity that trump takes a hit and a lot of chances for Harris to falter. Of course that’s double standards considering trump is most likely dementia addled, drugged up, and has no expectation of coherence but that’s apparently just OK now to a disgustingly large amount of people.
I’m just hoping the stress causes some sort of fatal conniption. I couldn’t care less about their feelings.
Hear me out, but aren’t these people supposed to be professional?
Wondering whether “happy” or “angry” variants of a person will show up should stop being a thing around sixteen to eighteen years of age.
Maybe thes story should read: “Trump grossly unfit for office and the Republican party is so badly broken that they can’t manage to replace him”?
I hope they argue about their golf games for like 10 minutes like Biden and Trump did. That made me really proud to be an American and confident about our electoral process.
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