Has Harris finally broken Trump? He’s flailing, glitching and running scared.

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Has Harris finally broken Trump? He’s flailing, glitching and running scared.

Folks, I think

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I mean, it’s fair to say he was already broken – in all ways, really – but since Harris became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee July 21, the GOP’s favorite felon and presidential nominee

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Following up his leaning-hard-into-racism moment at last week’s

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, where he bizarrely suggested Harris only recently “happened to turn ******,”

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that was a festival of ranting and raving, arguably the worst display of Trump’s snarling id we’ve seen in some time.

Kamala Harris has already reduced Donald Trump to a quivering pile of hate and insults

He called his opponent – a woman who is the sitting vice president of the ******* States, an accomplished prosecutor and a former U.S. senator –  “

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, “She happens to be really a low-IQ individual,” and then added, without a hint of self-awareness: “We don’t need a low IQ.”

Then

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: “The two words are ‘Merry Christmas.’ She doesn’t want anybody saying Merry Christmas.”

At a 2017 news conference, after then-President Trump announced he was ending Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for children brought here illegally, then-Sen. Harris said: “And when we all sing happy tunes, and sing Merry Christmas, and wish each other Merry Christmas, these children are not going to have a Merry Christmas. How dare we speak Merry Christmas. How dare we?

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Trump went so far off the rails at his Atlanta rally that he started attacking Republicans

And then he aimed his ******-uncle-inspired rhetoric at Georgia’s popular – and ***********! – governor, Brian Kemp, whom Trump hates because he wouldn’t help him

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“Atlanta is like a ******** field, and your governor ought to get off his a– and do something about it,”

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Will Trump and Harris debate? Trump supporters want him to debate Kamala Harris. They told me why.

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, saying she once thanked him for endorsing her husband but has now turned on Trump.

“Now she said two weeks ago that I will not endorse him because he hasn’t earned my endorsement,”

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. “I haven’t earned her endorsement? I have nothing to do with her.”

Then Trump went back to bad-mouthing Kemp who, two years after

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soundly: “He’s a bad guy, he’s a disloyal guy, and he’s a very average governor. Little Brian,

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Former President Donald Trump campaigns for reelection in Atlanta on Aug. 3, 2024.

It’s clear Harris is in Trump’s head

Vice President Harris, what have you done to this already very unstable man? The cheese has somehow slid farther off his cracker.

Trump is so shook that he

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, instead demanding a Sept. 4 debate at his network safe space – Fox News – with “a full arena audience.”

It’s the presidential candidate equivalent of throwing a temper tantrum before taking your ball and going home.

Trump and his campaign have wholly lost the air of inevitability

In the summer weeks before Harris’ ascension, after President Biden’s disastrous presidential debate performance, Trump and his campaign were riding high, and the candidate himself was being, by his standards, normal. He was almost quiet.

Then came the horrifying ************** attempt on Trump that he thankfully survived, and the

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, devoted to unity.

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, projecting a sense of inevitability. Trump even picked ********* MAGA tush-kisser JD Vance as his vice presidential nominee, ignoring advice to choose someone who might broaden the ticket’s appeal.

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Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two as she departs for Houston, Texas, from ****** Base Andrews, Maryland, on July 31, 2024.

Then Biden dropped out and endorsed Harris. And people started to

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. Since then, the wheels have come off the GOP’s wagon, and Trump has backslid into a somehow worse version of the Trump whom voters sent packing in 2020. He’s panicked and flailing. Quicker than ever to default to the racism that has always undergirded his worldview.

The man has been Kamala-cized.

Biden’s departure swung the spotlight on Trump – and it hasn’t been pretty

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, as evidenced by her

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and an impressive uptick in fundraising. By stepping aside, Biden did away with the national hyperfocus on his age and allowed voters to refocus on Trump.

Trump is weird: Democrats have decided to publicly label Donald Trump ‘weird’ and it’s about time

What the refocused voters are seeing – what they saw in the Atlanta rally and in

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he has been doing – is a man who let an opponent switch up and short-circuit his brain.

Is this because Harris is polling so much better than Biden was? Is it because Trump is intimidated by her? Is it her race and ethnicity? Her gender?

Who knows?

A lot of time ******** before the election, but Trump is running scared

There’s plenty of time for Trump and his campaign to regain footing or for Harris to make missteps that swing things back in the Republicans’ direction.

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But it’s clear that Trump is rattled, and that his usual tricks of hurling insults and invective aren’t working. In fact, the smiling calm of the Harris campaign is making Trump’s cruelty look worse than ever. That’s why the

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. For many, it’s all getting a bit tiresome.

And that just makes Trump angrier, and worse.

We have a long way to go until November, folks. But where we stand here and now, Trump looks like he’s broken. Broken and running scared.

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