Is it pretty much over for Trump?
Removed by modFeels pretty hopeless. He is losing in every swing state at the moment, and he seems to be running a campaign as bad as Hillary's. I really do not see how he can bounce back. Kamala is by now means a good candidate, and will be a terrible president. A "normie" repub would be winning right now, no? It really just seemed like a great opportunity for him to win and he's just fumbling the bag hard.
Am I wrong? Is there a path to victory for our boy?
I mean that would be funny, but the polls say otherwise. Trump has been running an absolutely god awful campaign.
I am not sure that mods will even see this, but it was a bit and I don't think it should have been taken down. I feel like if I was even more on the nose it would have been taken down for that reason... Am I missing something here?
He's blowing it. I think this election, and probably every national election from here on out, will be won and lost on turnout. When the base is excited, they turn out.
He's definitely lost it, but even if you brought back 2016 Trump, it's all background noise now. In 2016 he said stuff that shocked most people, including republicans, today that stuff is not even as extreme as what the average republican congressperson tweets. He's been doing the same speeches for 8 years with minor changes.
He hasn't gotten less extreme, most Republicans have just taken up his rhetoric after seeing how well it worked.
Yeah this is what it really is. The average American conservative has become so mentally deep fried that Trump comes across as quaint in comparison. He no longer hits the same for them. Or at least, they've gone so ass deep into trans panic and anti-wokeness that Trump's 2016 rhetoric just isn't doing it. He doesn't cater to the same cultural grievance politics that DeSantis and Vance try to lean into. I'm remembering that one time Charlie Kirk was interviewing Trump. He was trying to get Trump to say there's a widespread conspiracy on universities to censor conservative speakers, but Trump wasn't having it. He said stuff like "No they're doing great. Everyone loves me. The speakers get a lot of listeners." Just didn't play into it at all.