Here come the Donald Trump campaign resignations?

| 7:17 pm EDT August 11, 2024
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On any given day the three key indicators of who’s winning an election are popular momentum, fundraising momentum, and polling momentum. Kamala Harris is winning all three (rally crowd size is fourth most important at best, though Kamala Harris is winning that too). But every once in awhile you get the true indicator of when a campaign is losing and falling apart: the leaks.

This past week we’ve seen various Trump campaign advisers and staffers leak to the media that they’re frustrated over Donald Trump’s unwillingness to go with the speeches and strategies they’ve been providing him, and embarrassed at the senile nonsense coming out of his mouth. We’ve also seen Trump’s closest allies leak that Trump is fed up with the people running his campaign and is looking at replacing them.

There is no more surefire sign of which way an election is going than when these kinds of leaks begin coming out of a losing campaign. It means everyone involved in that campaign, from the candidate to the advisers, is trying to cover their backside. And it generally means that heads are about to roll.

Sure enough, Travis Akers, who writes for Newsweek, is now reporting that we could see mass resignations from the Trump campaign as early as this upcoming week. This isn’t surprising. Trump and the people closest to him are running his campaign deeply and embarrassingly into the ground. The career political operatives who are working for the campaign are surely afraid of never getting hired again after being attached to this incompetent debacle. So it wouldn’t be surprising to see people heading for the door now, before Trump’s campaign gets even more embarrassing.

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