Voters Said Give Us Different Candidates— The Dems Did; The GOP Refused
Señor Trumpanzee wants his money back. What money? The money he spent campaigning against Biden— except he’s still campaigning against Biden! He’s pissed off because their whole campaign was geared towards sliming Biden for his age (Now Trump is the oldest presidential nominee in history— and showing hard to deny signs of extremely severe cognitive decline.). So… now they’re melting down. Take a look at these posts from the lunatic’s account on his fake Twitter platform:
Late Sunday, Tim Alberta wrote that Trump’s team, more wary of the power Democrats hold over the electorate than of the decrepit Biden, is now forced to reinvent that whole campaign. “Suddenly,” wrote Alberta, “Republicans who had boasted last week about expanding the electoral map— pushing into Minnesota and Virginia and other decidedly blue areas— were fretting about the possibility of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro or Arizona Senator Mark Kelly joining the Democratic ticket, partnering with Harris to put back into play key battlegrounds that just 24 hours earlier seemed to be out of reach… Trump’s campaign believes that any Democrat who picks up the party’s banner will inherit the baggage that made Biden unelectable. Republicans will point to historic inflation, millions of illegal border crossings, and geopolitical chaos from Eastern Europe to the Middle East as evidence that the entire Democratic Party has failed the American people. ‘We’ve talked about strength versus weakness, success versus failure,’ LaCivita told me before the convention, summarizing the campaign’s strategic vision for the race. ‘The great thing about that messaging is that it’s not just unique to Joe Biden.’… It’s true that Harris will struggle to shed some policy-related criticisms; her appointment early in her vice presidency to handle the southern border, in fact, could make her even more vulnerable to immigration-related attacks than Biden was. It’s also true, however, that policy criticisms aren’t what made Biden unelectable in the eyes of most Americans. In an evenly divided and exceedingly polarized nation, Biden lost ground— with his party’s base as well as with independents— because he was perceived to be too old and infirm to serve another four years in office.”
He reminded his readers that Kamala “is neither of those things. At 59 years old, she is two decades younger than Trump and will have no trouble keeping up with him on the campaign trail or the debate stage. She is also a former prosecutor who, if anything, is known for being too tough on crime. (Trump allies told me they plan to assault her left flank with accusations of Harris over-incarcerating young men of color when she was California’s attorney general.) At the very least, Trump’s lieutenants realize, Harris’s promotion will provide a desperately needed jolt to Democrats nationwide in the form of fundraising, volunteerism, and enthusiasm. Whatever her flaws as a politician— Harris ran a dreadful primary campaign for president in 2020, marked by organizational infighting and awkward sound bites— she does not possess the one flaw that proved insurmountable for Biden… The mentality of this Trump campaign, LaCivita once told me, is to spend every day on offense. The team wants to shape the pace and substance of every news cycle and force Democrats to react, ensuring that key battles are fought on the GOP’s chosen terrain. It worked so well that Biden was ruined before his party’s convention. Now the Trump operation is vowing to destroy Harris… in much the same way. And yet, for a campaign that went to bed Saturday believing that it would dictate the terms of the election every day until November 5, Sunday brought an unfamiliar feeling of powerlessness. For the first time in a long time, Trump does not control the narrative of 2024.”
Yesterday, trio of ABC News writers reported that “Trump and his campaign are reeling from the surprise announcement.”
It’s almost funny that after making age and cognitive decline in candidates issues, Trump is on the wrong side of that dividing line now. There are no reliable records of Trump’s diminished capacity to navigate the kinds of problems solving essentials to a successful presidency. Instead, Trump has a known drug addict and alcoholic crony of his— disgraced former Admiral Ronny Jackson (who Trump refers to as Ronny Johnson), drummed out of the Navy for drugging and raping subordinates, vouching for his mental health. The Washington Post noted that Señor T has been less than transparent about his physical and mental health.
Trump, a 78-year-old with a history of heart disease and obesity, according to experts, has not shared any updated bloodwork results or other specific information during this campaign to help experts assess his ongoing medical risks.
Instead, he has released a vague, three-paragraph letter from his primary care physician, Bruce Aronwald, who wrote in November that the former president was in excellent physical and mental health, and who later said in a statement released by campaign officials to the Washington Post that “there is no need for President Trump to release another medical report in addition to the one he recently made public.”
Seven days after the attempted assassination against him on July 13, Trump released a letter from his former White House physician, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX), who described treating a two-centimeter-wide wound to Trump’s right ear and said he had a CT scan of his head and other tests but did not release the results. Jackson said in the letter that Trump was initially treated by the medical staff at Butler Memorial Hospital in Butler, Pa., and that he saw the former president later that night at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, N.J. Jackson, who is one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, did not respond to a request for comment. A hospital spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment.
Jackson has previously said that Trump aced a cognitive test when he was president, but those results also have not been released.
Now, instead of facing an 81-year-old candidate whose mental and physical health were questioned after a disastrous debate in June, Trump’s opponent is most likely to be Vice President Harris, a 59-year-old with no publicly disclosed health issues. Harris has not released a detailed medical report as vice president. The White House and her campaign did not immediately respond to questions from The Post about whether she would do so as a presidential candidate.
The age of presidential candidates has been a key issue for voters this year. A Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, conducted before last week’s Republican convention, found that 60 percent of Americans said Trump is too old for another term as president, including 82 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of independents and 29 percent of Republicans. Before Biden dropped out of the race, many Democrats bristled at what they argued was an unfair critical focus on his age compared to Trump.
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