The knives have come out: Donald Trump’s campaign is falling apart from within

| 12:01 pm EDT August 8, 2024
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In general there are three pillars for measuring who’s winning and losing a presidential election at any given moment: popular momentum, polls, and fundraising. But if you want the most surefire sign of all that a candidate is losing, that’s when the backbiting leaks begin making their way into the media. That’s now happening with Donald Trump.

According to a surreal new report from the Washington Post, Trump is now privately asking his allies whether his campaign staff is any good. That’s stunning when you’re just ninety days from election day. But it turns out Trump’s people are as dissatisfied with him as he is with them.

Trump campaign staffers are now telling the Washington Post that they think he’s going about his advertising strategy wrong. They’re also suggesting that Trump’s prepared speech for the convention was far better than the ineffective snooze-fest that he ad libbed. Trump’s campaign people are also griping to the media about how much Trump hurt himself when he questioned whether Kamala Harris is really Black.

So at this point we’ve got Donald Trump trying to figure out who on his campaign to scapegoat and fire, even as Trump’s campaign people are trying to make sure the public knows that Trump’s struggles are his own fault. This is what you call freefall. Let’s take advantage of it and try to run up the score.