The massive yet fragile ego that is currently occupying the White House is threatening to consume all of the Republican election oxygen in the nation. Donald Trump is in the midst of an extended campaign tour that is taking him to mostly red states that ordinarily would be considered GOP certainties.
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In this year’s midterm election there is very little that can be regarded as certain. Particularly as far as Republican prospects are concerned. Trump appears to be doing his best to sabotage his MAGA Party. And if that were his intention, he has been wildly successful. Even as he struggles to avoid recognizing it.
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During a Sunday morning press gaggle Trump was asked about the election and the agenda that he is pitching to voters in these closing days of the campaign. As happens with greater frequency every day, his responses diverge farther and farther from an any substantive connection to reality. For instance…
Question: What are you hearing is the top issue for voters?
Trump: Well, first of all I hear that we’ve turned the whole thing around…I think the the rallies have turned it, frankly.
SERIOUSLY? There was no second of all. And Trump never actually says what he thinks the top issues are. He just goes on a long and tedious rant about how fabulously Republican candidates are doing because of him and his cult rallies where only his most devoted disciples are in attendance.
Trump mentioned specifically the states of Ohio, Texas, Nebraska, and Alaska, all states where Democratic Senate candidates are either leading or tied. They are also all states where a Democratic victory would flip the seat from red to blue. And for good measure he insults his own cult followers in Alaska as being so stupid that they don’t know what the word “incumbent” means.
Judging by what Trump talks about at his rallies, the top issues for him and his MAGA-tists are defeating Democratic communists, preventing the gender transition of every American child, building vanity ballrooms and other tributes to himself, cozying up to foreign dictators, suppressing voters, muzzling and insulting the free press, and making himself and his cronies wealthier.
No wonder Trump couldn’t answer a simple question about his top issues. He is maniacally self-possessed and grossly out of touch with the American people. The actual top issues according to voters include government corruption, the cost of living, Trump’s war against Iran, and Russia’s war against Ukraine (for which Trump sides with Putin). However, on these and every other high priority issue, Trump is deeply underwater.
There is precious little time left for Trump to really turn anything around. And his pitiful efforts to do so amount to just more promotion of himself. Given his record low approval ratings, that doesn’t seem to be a particularly strong strategy. But it’s all that he has, or cares to focus on. And ironically, that’s exactly the strategy that Democrats hope he sticks with.
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