There’s a long way to go in this election, and much can and will happen. But right now, weeks after a Republican National Convention brimming with confidence, Trump, GOP lawmakers and right-wing pundits are all on their heels, seemingly incapable of pushing back against a Harris-Walz Democratic ticket.
Trying to make Tim Walz seem radical won't be easy for Trump
But there’s little sign anyone’s biting on that. Walz’s policies are broadly popular , his state is doing great and it seems more than a bit goofy to claim that a guy who looks like he’d be happy to give you a hand fixing your lawnmower’s carburetor is also a mendacious socialist tyrant.
“What are the chances that Crooked Joe Biden, the WORST President in the history of the U.S., whose Presidency was Unconstitutionally STOLEN from him by Kamabla, Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, Crazy Nancy Pelosi, Shifty Adam Schiff, Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, and others on the Lunatic Left, CRASHES the Democrat National Convention and tries to take back the Nomination, beginning with challenging me to another DEBATE. He feels that he made a historically tragic mistake by handing over the U.S. Presidency, a COUP, to the people in the World he most hates, and he wants it back, NOW!!!”
That kind of nuttiness would prompt most people to say: “I think we better have someone check in on Grandpa.”
I can’t even parse what he’s on about, and anyone who can read that aloud and say “At last, a presidential candidate who make sense!” needs to know there are people who love them and ways for them to get help.
GOP trying so hard to label the Harriz-Walz ticket, but ...
With polling swinging in Harris’ favor since she rose to the top of the ticket, Trump is not just losing the election. He’s losing his mind. And his campaign and the Republican Party at large seem helpless, for now, to change the perception of Democratic momentum and GOP discombobulation.
Grating right-wing podcaster Ben Shapiro posted a picture of Walz on social media and wrote: “Weird move for Kamala to select Marxist Don Rickles, but here we are.” A dated reference to a beloved comedian? Nailed it!
Rufo wrote of Walz : “He knows that the only way to defeat discrimination is through more discrimination. That's why he bravely downgrades and excludes whites from government programs. It's not ‘justice’ if it's ‘just us,’ he says whitely.”
Good ones! Those lines are totally relatable to normal voters and won’t be seen as weird.
Did you hear this great joke about Kamala and walls?
Former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee gave it a shot on Fox News, saying of Harris: “She has been against walls. She has finally found Walz that she likes. Tim Walz, not real walls.”
Hahahahah, we are laughing because that is a good joke! The youth vote will now come home to Republicans!
Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung shared a social post from Trump running mate JD Vance , who was telling people Wednesday that he was on the tarmac in Wisconsin near Harris’ Air Force Two jet. Cheung added : “Make sure AF2 is deep cleaned because Lord only knows what @KamalaHarris and her team have done on there. The smell alone on that plane must be crazy.”
To which any normal person would say, “Dude, shut the (expletive) up.”
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So they’ve got “Kamabla,” some Joe-Biden-wants-revenge fan fiction, comedian comparisons, not-too-veiled racism and a wall joke. Perfect.
A positive, normal message is proving toxic to Trump's angry rhetoric
The Harris campaign is countering Trump’s bullying and perennially Trump-centric approach by focusing on a positive message of uniting Americans and working to protect and expand people’s freedoms. The message and the messengers are thus far effective.
“They cannot fathom a campaign or any leaders who are not about themselves. This campaign, as impressive and compelling as the ticket themselves are, they’ve also made it clear that this campaign isn’t about them. It’s about you, it’s about us, it’s about the future of this country.”
Impotently shouting “Kamabla!” isn’t going to halt the Democrats’ momentum. It only cements the belief that Trump is weird and people are tired of his schtick.
And that painful reality is causing the man in Mar-a-Lago to absolutely lose whatever marbles he has left.
losing his mind? ahh he proves everytime that he's firing mentally on HALF of A PETRIFIED BRAIN CELL! GRAMPS needs to RETIRE!! go home go build a sand castle pretend your a good golfer! your constantly in a fantasyland anyway!
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