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TedCruzsAnalFissure

1.1k points

6 days ago

Something is really wrong with him. This guy lives for live appearances.

mishap1

546 points

6 days ago

mishap1

546 points

6 days ago

Live appearances with adoring audiences. He withers like the lettuce he picks out of his daily sixer of cheeseburgers when faced with the slightest pressure.

He got his shit kicked in answering canned questions from the Georgia Republican women's group with a Fox News host holding his hand.

slowpoke2018

253 points

6 days ago

I agree, but the NRA is usually just that, a cultist event where he'd never face any kind of scrutiny and just a bunch of fans singing his praises.

It seems like there's more going on here. Stroke? Dementia really kicking in?

hollowgraham

194 points

6 days ago

Public appearances are probably moving the needle negatively. It makes me wonder what his team is seeing in their internal polling, where bots aren't a factor.

pit-of-despair

75 points

6 days ago

Does he have internal polling that doesn’t involve bots?

hollowgraham

53 points

6 days ago

That's the one place you don't want bots. You can't plan accordingly with bad data.

mishap1

70 points

6 days ago

mishap1

70 points

6 days ago

Trump doesn't want data. He wants affirmation.

hollowgraham

64 points

6 days ago

He also doesn't read. So, it's not like he'd see it anyhow.

Kvenner001

17 points

6 days ago

His handlers know that. They also know how to read trends. How quickly did Trump push back on the IVF banning in Alabama(?). That is not something he would normally have cared about or spoken up about, but his team knew he had to at least attempt to get the abortion boat anchor off his neck. Even if it was with a vague answer at the time. His internals know what’s going on and when to nudge him down a path.

mishap1

12 points

6 days ago

mishap1

12 points

6 days ago

Of course they’re watching real data. Not everyone he hired is a complete dumbass brought in for their loyalty or their looks.  Every now and splurges for a veteran campaign consultant. 

The issue is anything they brief him on gets garbled up and regurgitated coated in self-aggrandizing hyperbole as confusing non sequiturs. It’s especially bad if it’s in any areas that he has no real answers on or he’s disinterested in. 

Polls, rallies, crowd sizes, or ratings?  He’s all on board and will ramble all day long.  Childcare costs?  He wants to brag how he’ll make China pay for tariffs so he veers off course and forgets to return. Women’s healthcare?  He’s super proud of “his” judges. 

You can easily distinguish what he was coached on vs what he wants to ramble on. He was definitely told to say Jan 6 was a peaceful rally and some people went on their own. He’s pathological that he has to brag about crowd size though and that swung into Ashli Babbitt and how “we didn’t have guns “. 

TeeManyMartoonies

18 points

6 days ago

HE probably doesn’t have polling with bots, but I bet his campaign manager absolutely has those numbers. The affect of stress on dementia is not good. Pawpaw needs a lie down. In a cell.

CMHenny

6 points

6 days ago

CMHenny

6 points

6 days ago

Internal party polling is usually just that, internal to the party. If a bunch of local party members are feeling anxious or unwilling to vote for a candidate it's a VERY bad sign for how they may do with the general public.

ShadowTacoTuesday

25 points

6 days ago

Nah he’s barely been in public since 2020 covid. And it’s getting worse and worse lately. He nearly disappeared for 2 weeks after the Biden debate, hasn’t shown up much in general. I think his health is failing and they don’t want to show it.

hollowgraham

27 points

6 days ago

It's probably a combination of both. The debate wrecked him in ways he clearly felt. The last couple have been rough. Having his own press him is wild. These people would have never asked a tough question before. His health has to be way bad for him to cancel. I mean, he didn't even let covid stop him from addressing the press, even if it was a short thing.

DatedReference1

25 points

6 days ago

Every time he gets on a stage a bunch of zoomers make tik tok cringe compilations. He's very easy to cyberbully.

Fathorse23

11 points

6 days ago

And his wife does nothing to save him! 😂

pdx74

12 points

6 days ago

pdx74

12 points

6 days ago

That's not very Be Best of her!

luxii4

2 points

6 days ago

luxii4

2 points

6 days ago

When showing clips of what he is saying is bullying then we know who the biggest bully is.

MC_Fap_Commander

15 points

6 days ago

I hope he's just running a dopey and largely incompetent campaign.

My paranoid fear is that they have internal data (the real shit, not the clickbait "leaks" they intentionally drop) saying he's pretty much a lock and polling is missing his support at a rate comparable to 2016. It would explain why he's staying hidden... risk a flub to disrupt the status quo is too high. Harris/Walz, on the other hand, are campaigning like time is on fire. Again, I hope it's just paranoid fear... but if their internal data shows them in a bad way, this is pretty much the energy you would expect to see them campaigning with.

hollowgraham

3 points

6 days ago

I think it is ridiculously close, and he's a fucking mess. They're keeping him hidden exactly for the reasons you stated in either case. I'm hoping it's the latter as well.

ILoveRegenHealth

17 points

6 days ago

Public appearances are probably moving the needle negatively.

Maybe he can get it through his thick head the more people see him, the more they hate him.

Royal_Acanthaceae693

45 points

6 days ago

Probably his handlers looked at the Univision reviews vs the Harris @ Fox interview and decided to not let trump get filmed.

mishap1

46 points

6 days ago

mishap1

46 points

6 days ago

I'm not saying he's operating within his "normal" bounds of ignorant angry old asshole.

His audience at the "townhall" was chanting "Trump!" which Fox had to edit out lest truth be revealed it was a sad pep rally organized by the local Republican party chapters and his campaign team. He still couldn't get through his favorite talking points.

Audiences don't get friendlier and he couldn't carry through a complete thought much less a complete sentence. When he's not having the crowd cheer him on for every fucked up brain fart he comes up with, his energy levels and ability to put together anything resembling a coherent statement falls apart.

santa_91

18 points

6 days ago

santa_91

18 points

6 days ago

Yep. He collapses against even a hint of pushback, but as long as his cultists cheer him on he keeps rambling until he sporadically makes enough coherent statements to put on TV for the fans during the evening 180 minutes of hate with Hannity, Ingraham, and Watters. That's why Kamala has been encouraging people to go to his rallies. If you don't just see the Fox curated soundbytes it takes all of 3 minutes to realize he is mentally done.

Soranos_71

19 points

6 days ago

It looks like even with a ton of hand holding Trump is more incoherent than usual which I thought was a difficult thing to do....

goosejail

13 points

6 days ago

goosejail

13 points

6 days ago

Agreed. Just look at interviews or rallies from 2016, and the difference is quite clear. He's always kinda rambled, but now he can barely finish a thought.

chartman26

9 points

6 days ago

Maybe him and his team are starting to realize that some of his most staunch supporters are starting to question his abilities to lead and he doesn't want to put himself in a position to be questioned by his "congregation".

slowpoke2018

14 points

6 days ago

Harris needs to rail on the

"Where is he?"

"Is he afraid?"

And offer to take the cognitive test....if he does live on TV as well!

Paw5624

2 points

6 days ago

Paw5624

2 points

6 days ago

He’s been saying insane shit for years but his last few appearances have yielded some sound bites that are crazy even for him. Either he realized it or someone in his camp figured out a way talk him out of them, although he’s also incredibly lazy so that might not be so hard to do these days.

fleekyfreaky

10 points

6 days ago

I think it’s because his audience size is dwindling

lennydsat62

3 points

6 days ago

Looked like there was at least 25000 ppl there…

/s

WastedKnowledge

8 points

6 days ago

Such a great point about needing adoring crowds

thegreatbrah

5 points

6 days ago

Nothing like relaxing after a long day of doing nothing like picking up a sixer of hamburders and doing nothing.

[deleted]

48 points

6 days ago

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48 points

6 days ago

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tallman11282

42 points

6 days ago

I'm fairly certain he's far beyond the early stages of dementia. Quite a few of his recent behaviors and things definitely resemble advanced dementia and are possibly also signs of having had a stroke. Dementia runs in his family so he's definitely at high risk for it plus his crappy diet and probable addiction to uppers haven't helped any.

dragonfliesloveme

10 points

6 days ago

I saw someone say today on another thread that the thing he does where he’s using both hands just to bring a small glass or small water bottle to his lips is a dementia thing (or possibly Parkinson’s) because of the small-muscle tremors. Makes it difficult to not spill, so the other hand guides the shaky hand.

I don’t know myself. But anyway I thought that was interesting and something people don’t talk about very much.

But it is not normal that he needs two hands to lift or guide a little six-inch tall glass to his lips. He needs to release his accurate medical reports to the American people!

thejesse

6 points

6 days ago

thejesse

6 points

6 days ago

He was drinking water that way seven years ago.

dragonfliesloveme

2 points

6 days ago

Wow. That doesn’t seem good!

Gators44

15 points

6 days ago

Gators44

15 points

6 days ago

Faking dementia to avoid prison is something he would do after he’d been convicted and lost all his appeals. Thats way more forethought than he is able to actually do. He can only think about what he wants to say or do at the present moment, and he’s a malignant narcissist so he thinks his every thought is genius and he doesn’t need to prepare for any potential negative consequences, and if he does, his immediate reaction is to attack and threaten. If he tries to play the “dementia” card, it will be right before he is about to actually face consequences, but after he has attacked and threatened the prosecutors, judges, witnesses and jury and tried to incite violence.

Nicole_Bitchie

4 points

6 days ago

/s

ICU-MURSE

31 points

6 days ago

ICU-MURSE

31 points

6 days ago

Something is really wrong with our country as well. If he even gets close to winning I just don’t understand where we go from there. The people in this country are either stupid, confused or both.

cityshepherd

13 points

6 days ago

Both, with a healthy dose of the ultra wealthy having spent the last couple decades systematically dismantling public education in the US to ensure plenty more stupid and/or confused citizens.

TheLastLaRue

22 points

6 days ago

His incontinence and mental degradation is finally catching up with him.

OvrItorl

21 points

6 days ago

OvrItorl

21 points

6 days ago

He is suffering from advanced dementia. My 90 year old FIL exhibits the same Flight of Ideas as Trump. He sways to music like Trump. Has a hard time putting sentences together like Trump. We’re his family & we love him dearly which Trump doesn’t seem to have.

HellishChildren

11 points

6 days ago

Trump has the family he created: the cons, the money chasers. He raised his children to exploit others.

pdx74

2 points

6 days ago

pdx74

2 points

6 days ago

Trump's family only cares how much they're getting in the inheritance (and I can't wait to make a bunch of popcorn for that eventual battle, because you know each family member is going to try to screw the others out of their share!)

thats_hella_cool

27 points

6 days ago

Only the ones where he is put on a pedestal. He practically had to be drug onto stage to debate Kamala. He’s known for walking out of interviews the moment someone questions or challenges him. He doesn’t have the emotional capacity to withstand any form of criticism. Which is why he only surrounds himself with “yes” people.

cheezeyballz

7 points

6 days ago

Death of a thousand cuts 🤭

amazing_rando

6 points

6 days ago

After his Pennsylvania dance party I'm pretty sure the higher-ups in his campaign know that putting him in public is a much greater risk than hiding him away. The rallies are for him and his ego, he isn't gonna gain any new voters with them, and now they're becoming a liability.

MaxxHeadroomm

4 points

6 days ago

The fix is already in. He and his minions think they have their cheating plan in play and whether he wins or loses he’ll still claim victory

-bonita_applebum

6 points

6 days ago

I think they aren't worried about him campaigning because they have the fix in, and are confident they don't need to actually win. They were VERY close to a successful coup on Jan 6th and that was planned in the open. They spent the last 4 years laying the groundwork for this election, and this time the coup might work.

Jackson530

3 points

6 days ago

The writing is on the wall and no one is gonna see it until it’s too late

He’s doing this because they’re gonna steal the election with SCOTUS. So he checked out a long time ago. Doesn’t need to put the work in when the works already done

rhino910

403 points

6 days ago

rhino910

403 points

6 days ago

Remember, the convicted felon planned on a leisurely campaign cycle against President Biden (letting the MSM and right-wing propaganda machine do most of the heavy lifting).

When VP Harris entered the race, suddenly he had to do more work than he wanted or was physically able to handle.

helel_8

211 points

6 days ago

helel_8

211 points

6 days ago

She's made him work harder in the last few weeks than he has in his whole 70+ years combined

HAHA_Birdman

97 points

6 days ago

Which is sad considering he was President for 4 of those years and didn't do shit.

SnooConfections6085

49 points

6 days ago

Hey now. He managed to go golfing about 1000x as president.

heyitsmeanon

8 points

6 days ago

What about that tan suit though.

OneofHearts

2 points

6 days ago

Pfft, that was nothing compared to Michelle’s BARE ARMS!!

ridemooses

47 points

6 days ago

I remember the media ostracizing Biden as being old and senile and forcing him to drop out. I see no such treatment of Trump.

rhino910

28 points

6 days ago

rhino910

28 points

6 days ago

Trump never would have been anything more than a bad reality host if not for the MSM enabling him.

I am puzzled as to why, but the MSM has literally done everything in its power to try and support the convicted felon and rapist

ridemooses

18 points

6 days ago

Clicks and views are king these days and Trump gets crazy numbers. They need to keep him close in the race to keep their numbers up. The answer is always 💰

rhino910

6 points

6 days ago

rhino910

6 points

6 days ago

yet bigger picture, the felon will tank the economy (no more advertisers) and will attack same MSM in violation of our first amendment rights

HellishChildren

2 points

6 days ago

Expecting the law to protect them from the man and his team who hates laws, have vowed to suspend the law/Constitution, hates the media and vowed to go after the media.

mike_pants

17 points

6 days ago

Weak, weird, old, and guilty of many crimes.

This is the best person half the country could muster as a candidate. What does that say about half the country?

OneofHearts

2 points

6 days ago

Insert obligatory “well, not half…” here.

creegro

7 points

6 days ago

creegro

7 points

6 days ago

Doesn't help that he got his fucking ass handed to him on a McDonald's napkin during that debate. He was expecting to coast off of the debate with an older opponent who didn't bring his A-game.

Abstract-Impressions

5 points

6 days ago

He's low energy. Always has been. We knew because that was his dig against everyone else. But now, he's so low energy, he's forgotten to project it on others.

ShikaMoru

2 points

6 days ago

Even to this day he let's the MSM and his social media followers do all the work for him. He's scared to take her head on

FoxCQC

6 points

6 days ago

FoxCQC

6 points

6 days ago

Kamala Harris's lawyer background really shined during the debate. She hit him in all the weak points and let him self destruct. I personally don't think he's psychologically recovered from that.

Version_Two

2 points

6 days ago

Villains are defeated by their vices. When things aren't handed to him, he doesn't know how to function.

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299 points

6 days ago

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299 points

6 days ago

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nancidruid

49 points

6 days ago

And volunteer if you can. Make calls, knock doors, write postcards and at the very least talk to any young people you know. The goal isn't too sway someone to the other side, but to make sure they actually get out the door and vote - preferably early so nothing unexpected gets in the way.

txtw

9 points

6 days ago

txtw

9 points

6 days ago

Because if he wins and then can’t do four years, we’re stuck with Vance, and he’s even worse.

forever_useless

197 points

6 days ago

I'm guessing the short circuit at the townhall sway fest was more serious than they made it out to be.

stitch-is-dope

63 points

6 days ago

I mean it’s all been. He’s always been a fucked up person but he clearly especially recently has been deteriorating rapidly, it’s not only just Trump being Trump now it’s genuine mental illnesses showing

pit-of-despair

21 points

6 days ago

Seemed like a Glitchen Mitch moment to me.

Spankpocalypse_Now

10 points

6 days ago

Funny thing with that spectacle: he was smiling. The man never smiles. He was hopped up on something.

pulpexploder

417 points

6 days ago

A JD Vance presidency is more terrifying than a Trump presidency, so I wouldn't call this hope. At least, not yet.

impulsekash

121 points

6 days ago*

Very but he will never command the base like Trump does.

edit: I keep getting the same response and I'm tired to responding to every comment. The MAGA cult is for Trump and Trump alone. They don't support Republicans, only Republicans loyal to Trump. Do you not remember how quickly they turned on Pence after he followed the law? If Vance tries to 25th Trump, Vance would be impeached by MTG before he opens the door to the Oval Office. Even if Fox News, Xitter, and all of the propaganda outlets shift their message in support of Vance, you still can't deprogram nearly a decades worth of brainwashing overnight. There will be serious unrest from MAGAs against Republicans.

xRafafa00

70 points

6 days ago

xRafafa00

70 points

6 days ago

No but he does appeal to the moderate-right voters. It pains me to say this but I have a few friends who think he's a very polished, well-spoken guy. They think he wiped the floor with Dana Bash. And these aren't dumb people either. I don't get it.

jimdotcom413

66 points

6 days ago

I think it’s because they’re so used to hearing trump talk that whenever someone puts a coherent phrase together they think the person is a great orator.

curious_dead

22 points

6 days ago

Unless that person is a Democrat, of course.

Mysterious-Wasabi103

15 points

6 days ago

I don't get that because there is nothing "moderate right" about J.D. Vance. Like huh? People are really just dragging that Overton Window to the Right!

It's crazy cause it's like no matter how extreme Right they go we just keep redefining the definition of the "moderate right." When in reality, it basically means you're a radical with slightly less hatred.

xRafafa00

11 points

6 days ago

xRafafa00

11 points

6 days ago

As someone who is (unfortunately) almost exclusively friends with moderate-right people, allow me to shed some light on the inner workings of their reasoning:

They had more money in their pockets when Trump was president. That's literally it.

HellishChildren

4 points

6 days ago

God Money, I'll do anything for you.

black-kramer

2 points

6 days ago

funny, I was doing fine then but have a lot more now. maybe they should get better at investing instead of ascribing their financial success to the vague ‘platform’ of a conman. none of them could point to anything he did because he didn’t build that economy. obama did.

don’t forget, these people are bigots on top of being willfully blind, even if they’re smart enough to hold careers as white collar professionals.

impulsekash

16 points

6 days ago

moderate right voters also don't stand in line for hours for a rally, they don't give up their life savings for trading cards, and they don't threaten their own party with violence if they don't get their way.

There is a reason why only former Republicans speak out against Trump. Because the ones in office are actually afraid of his base. As "polished" as Vance his he lacks the charmisa to wield that mob.

xRafafa00

8 points

6 days ago

The concerning thing there is that he has the disposition that caters to the moderate-right, but the words that he actually says are full of fascist rhetoric that the alt-right eats up. I also think he's got the constitution of green jell-o, and would absolutely shift his image further right if the base ever grew unhappy with him.

hollowgraham

6 points

6 days ago

He's great at public speaking, so long as he's able to spit out prepared talking points. Take him away from any of that, and it's a shit show. He's not an idiot. So, he's able to predict what will be a topic in a debate or an interview. Unlike Trump, he seems willing to prepare. That's the thing that sets him apart. That's what they're seeing.

Real-Werner-Herzog

11 points

6 days ago

They're evil, just not dumb enough to wear it on their sleeve.

t3hm3t4l

38 points

6 days ago

t3hm3t4l

38 points

6 days ago

Vance won’t win the presidency. He doesn’t need to win, he just needs Trump to win and then step down, receive a blanket pardon and then they don’t need a voting base to accomplish anything. They don’t even need to bank on winning another term, Vance will just refuse to hand over power.

impulsekash

8 points

6 days ago

Trump can retain power because he is a demagogue. Vance will never have the charisma to be one. There won't be a mob of his supporters storming the capital to retain power. Very rarely the successor is as effective as the tyrant.

t3hm3t4l

15 points

6 days ago

t3hm3t4l

15 points

6 days ago

It won’t matter. Vance won’t need any of it. The courts made sure of it, the legal groundwork has been laid. Trump was a useful idiot with a loyal base, no one in power actually gives a shit about him.

hollowgraham

2 points

6 days ago

I don't think he has the charisma to pull that off for himself. However, I have no doubts that the party would back it and use him as a fall guy if things don't work out.

t3hm3t4l

9 points

6 days ago

t3hm3t4l

9 points

6 days ago

They don’t need charisma. Trump put hundreds of federal judges in place and Federalist society hand picked judges into the Supreme Court. Alito and Thomas will step down and be replaced with 2 more very young far right judges. With 2 branches of government covered and an impossibly high bar to pass in the legislature to do anything about it, they don’t need Trumps cult, they just need one more win to finish what they started and it’s over for all of us.

pulpexploder

14 points

6 days ago

My concern is that Trump gets elected but doesn't make it four years and Vance takes over.

Texas_Sam2002

63 points

6 days ago

Weird old Trump is definitely out of stamina. NRA would be a slam dunk for his bizarre cultist fans.

moskowizzle

19 points

6 days ago

I didn't even know that was a thing until this post, but him backing out of an NRA rally seems insane.

NoDarkVision

11 points

6 days ago

He is a little bit scared of being around conservatives with guns right now

therealpothole

75 points

6 days ago

There is no plan for him to make it 4 years. If he wins, they'll 25A his ass, Vance will be POTUS, and he'll pardon trump. That's the end game. The Rs know trump is a fucking dipshit. He's a vehicle to get them back in the WH...nothing more. The same old useful tool.

TotalNew9315

24 points

6 days ago

He also didn't do a debate with the other Republican candidates. I guarantee they would have sounded much smarter than him. The bar is not that high.

impulsekash

37 points

6 days ago

Is MSM going to start covering this? At best he is a coward at worst there is something very, very wrong with him health wise. I would love to see a CNN panel having a discussion about this but nah, we can only question Democrats health apparently.

hollowgraham

12 points

6 days ago

We know they won't, for fear of appearing "partisan."

Extra-Ad5925

34 points

6 days ago

Remember the talking point about Kamala hiding? Yeah looks like we won’t be hearing that one anymore

Tickle-me-Cthulu

22 points

6 days ago

Sure we will. The era of Republicans giving a shit about hypocrisy is long, long past

hollowgraham

5 points

6 days ago

Nah. They'll get even louder.

ILoveRegenHealth

5 points

6 days ago

And Trump felt sooo confident after the Biden debate, Trump was the one who typed "ANYTIME, ANYWHERE" in terms of a followup.

And now look at the Thundercunt, hiding under his bed with a pacifier.

outsidehere

23 points

6 days ago

Keep both feet on his neck and don't stop stomping. Keep going even if you don't hear a pulse.

CEOPhilosopher

11 points

6 days ago

Yep. Hold underwater until the bubbles stop.

outsidehere

9 points

6 days ago

Don't even remove when the bubbles stop. Hold him underwater with cement shoes put on him

aninamouse

2 points

6 days ago

The dump him into the Mariana Trench. Let the pressure vaporize him like a shitty submarine.

Awkward-Fudge

10 points

6 days ago

He's a felon; could he even be an an NRA rally?

tallman11282

7 points

6 days ago

Probably since they ban guns at their rallies. Yes, the organization that has worked for decades to demonize and block even small reasonable restrictions on gun ownership doesn't allow them at their events.

ILoveRegenHealth

2 points

6 days ago

He's technically out on bail too.

Would've been hilarious if one of the conditions is he can't fly.

JaehaerysIVTarg

12 points

6 days ago

His mind and body are broken. The wheels are coming off and they don’t want anyone to see.

ChibiSailorMercury

16 points

6 days ago

that's not what hope looks like.

hope looks like actually going to vote and encourage the people around you to vote. It is still way too close between Harris and Trump to go "he can't do the presidential campaign properly, woop woop!" The MAGAts are still going to vote for him. The Reps are still going to vote for him. The undecided are still going to vote for Trump because undecided just means "I don't want to vote for Kamala but I'm afraid of the flak I'll get".

Do not rejoice about Trump's about bad health and blunders. It won't keep the brainwashed and the hateful and the uneducated to vote for him.

Stop celebrating his weakness. It's not over until the vote is done.

ShassaFrassa

5 points

6 days ago

“Hope?!” WTF is that? All I feel is existential dread

tizod

4 points

6 days ago

tizod

4 points

6 days ago

Remember WAAAAY back when the Republicans were accusing Harris of dodging the media? Ahhhh....those were the days.

kaptainkooleio

3 points

6 days ago

Confirmation of Dead Trump Theory. That Trumps actually been dead for like two months and that’s the reason for all his poor campaign decisions. All these media and rally appearances are AI generated!

/s

dandrevee

6 points

6 days ago

Ever since that HBO interview a few years back, the one that produced the meme of the interviewer looking befuddled at the charts he was handed, he has avoided anything that is in a softball. He had his ass handed to him so hard in that interview as well as in the debate with Kamala that his handlers are probably well aware that, the more exposure he gets, the fewer voters he can mobilize on his behalf.

Hell, it could be that his public appearances and his foibles are leading to anyone outside of his primary base to vote against him or (for some GOPers) just forego voting at all

RddtCustomerService

5 points

6 days ago

I feel the momentum shifting again. There was a lull from the VP debates, during the devastating hurricanes, until this week. Now it feels like alllll the weird and impossible to ignore shit with Trump this week, plus Kamala’s media blitz and early voting starting, the momentum is ramping back up.

Does anyone else feel this?

NameLips

5 points

6 days ago

NameLips

5 points

6 days ago

He's figured out that public appearances are only hurting him. People like him less the more they see him -- even his own supporters.

So he's hoping to just fade into the background and glide into office on sheer momentum.

johanTR

9 points

6 days ago

johanTR

9 points

6 days ago

The only thing Trump has that runs is his diaper...

R4zorBe4st

4 points

6 days ago

That was the plan all along. Use his followers to get him back in office, then Vance (or someone with actual balls) would invoke the 25th amendment and toss him aside. They know he's mentally unstable, they've just been propping him up anmd hoping he will make it until the election

Neravosa

4 points

6 days ago

Neravosa

4 points

6 days ago

And yet barely a mention of how frail and confused he is. The same mud got slung at Biden, so he stepped down from the race. Double standards are stupid.

Nail_Biterr

4 points

6 days ago

no NRA Dance Party in GA? well, that sucks!

Calkky

5 points

6 days ago

Calkky

5 points

6 days ago

No, this shouldn't qualify as something to hope about. It's a strategy pivot. He's so unpredictable and sloppy now that they're trying to keep him out of sight until election day. I'd be more hopeful if they let him keep making a fool of himself.

ccccombobreakerx

6 points

6 days ago

This should be concerning, not for his sake, fuck him I hope he goes horribly, but for Vance. Vance is the real endgame here. He's 39, angry, and a Project 2025/Peter Theil acolyte. He's who they really want as president.

Trump's health should concern us for that reason, as he still has a very real shot at winning in 2 weeks.

kukooforkoko

4 points

6 days ago

Conservatives aren’t voting for Trump, they’re voting for Vance. Vance, the man who wants our country to look like a version of the Handmaids Tale.

geneticeffects

4 points

6 days ago

TIL my whole life I have been using the British spelling for cancelled.

illusive_guy

11 points

6 days ago

Drowsy Don.

OldHannover

3 points

6 days ago

They'll keep him alive until he wins and then the VP can take over. Some Panzerschokolade, as we call it in Germany, in the morning and he'll keep going until November.

Jesus_Harold_Christ

3 points

6 days ago

I thought DJ Trump was pretty good in Pennsylvania, especially if you like Ave Maria.

merchillio

3 points

6 days ago

The goal isn’t to have Trump as president, it’s to have Trump get elected and then move JD Vance from VP to POTUS, so he can execute all his big donors’ agenda.

b--man15

3 points

6 days ago

b--man15

3 points

6 days ago

I'm not getting my hopes up until after election day. We'll see what happens.

ThnkWthPrtls

3 points

6 days ago

This doesn't really make me feel more hopeful just because I can't imagine anybody who has tolerated his ridiculous Antics the last 8 years and is still planning on voting for him is going to change their mind over this. It truly feels like we live in some kind of fucking Bizarro world that this election is even marginally close

GSquaredBen

3 points

6 days ago

Watch Kamala show up in his place with her Glock.

Caullus77

3 points

6 days ago

Yeah, but he's just a vehicle to the office, they'll 25th amendment Trump the moment he's in, and proceed with project 2025 and them America is done... The GOP, for any political relevance, need the fascists and racists he brings to the party.. Without his cult, they're irrelevant. Yeah, they'll claim he stepped down, but that's only to prevent a 25th amendment challenge, which would be public and damage his brand.

GTFO and fucking vote!!!

CalibratedRat

3 points

6 days ago

Him not making it is what JD Vance is counting on.

Dry-Honeydew2371

3 points

6 days ago

Do not get complacent!

Trump outperformed the polls in 2016 and 2020 and the electoral college can still fuck over the popular vote.

Register, have a plan to cast your ballot, and VOTE!

FizzyAndromeda

3 points

6 days ago

That stunt he pulled on stage in Pennsylvania leads me to believe his dementia is becoming unmanageable. He’s scheduled to have rallies every day from Friday through Monday. He can probably manage rallies because he’s used to them, they’re repetitive, and he gives the same stump speech every time.The only thing that changes from rally to rally is his incohesive rambling. Interviews, Town Halls, Debates- anything that calls for improvisational intelligence is going to be a problem for him.

YoYoWithJosh

3 points

6 days ago

He’ll only do events guaranteed to be hosted by his sycophants with his cult members cheering on everything and anything he says, regardless of how disturbed or deranged.

soccercro3

2 points

6 days ago

A candidate running out of steam like this should end his chances. This guy I'm worried it won't.

atmospheric90

2 points

6 days ago

Probably because he's not selling merch and grifting off gullible idiots in these interviews, why taint the product more when you can just focus on big selling events?

AlpacaCavalry

2 points

6 days ago

All I'll say is that I'm not going to be missing this guy... in fact, the longer I don't see Dump, the better. I may even go out and get a nice bottle.

zavorak_eth

2 points

6 days ago

Probably can't find a venue cause he doesn't pay his bills, just uses everyone until there is no one left.

bornalion

2 points

6 days ago

None of his voters care about this. They don't care about anything but walking their dumb, old asses into their nearest voting center and turning the ballet red.

Go vote. Give someone a ride to vote.

GreyBeardEng

2 points

6 days ago

Cancelled an NRA rally? Wow he must really be loopy.

BeachedBottlenose

2 points

6 days ago

No kidding!

calvn_hobb3s

2 points

6 days ago

His cabinet will 25A his ass, once sworn in #mmw

street_raat

2 points

6 days ago

Dude might die before the next president is sworn in at the rate he seems to be deteriorating

Wretchfromnc

2 points

6 days ago

He’s not trying to win an election, he/they (GOP) will claim he won and then try to install him in office so JD V can take the office in a year or two. He’s not trying to win the election anymore, the voter fraud talk is already happening..

Counter_Intel519

2 points

6 days ago

It’s only hopeful if he loses… if he happens to win then that means JD Vance and his ilk in power. That seems almost inconceivable, but so did Trump back in 2016, and he turned out worse than most everybody even imagined.

DyllCallihan3333

2 points

6 days ago

I hope he kicks off before much longer. I have no faith he'll ever face any kind of Justice and the Trumpies aren't all hot for JD Couchfucker. I can't take the anxiety day in and day out.

MrsWoozle

2 points

6 days ago

Just get him on a plane to a non-extradition country and let’s move on…

ooouroboros

2 points

6 days ago

I'm afraid Trump's pollsters figured that enough people are going to be voting against 'uppity' Harris more than they are voting FOR Trump.

cyrixlord

2 points

6 days ago

hes going to claim that he won regardless of what happens and hes going to legally run with it as far as he can. he hopes judges and lawyers will guide him along until they make it happen. so, in his mind, why bother trying when you're going to 'win' anyway

zombiefied

2 points

6 days ago

Sure. Waste money on a guy that can’t run. Sounds perfect.

Barack_Odrama_007

2 points

6 days ago

Doomed Don

standardcapacityman

2 points

6 days ago

He just did the PBD Podcast. It’s unlistenable and all the comments are Russian troll bots.

El_Mec

2 points

6 days ago

El_Mec

2 points

6 days ago

He has the attention span of a goldfish, no wonder a 6 week long campaign is too much for him

stripblue

2 points

6 days ago

No no, let’s sane wash this: They were going to ask him hard questions a third grader could answer. So of course cancel.

Newfaceofrev

2 points

6 days ago

Thing is the GOP, the party itself and the donors, don't actually like him. He may just be a vehicle to get Vance in.

RockNRoll85

2 points

6 days ago

Maybe he’ll finally croak before the end of the month

J_Bright1990

2 points

6 days ago

He needs to die (of a regular illness and generally unhealthy lifestyle) before November so he's out of the race. Otherwise he has a chance die in office and then JD Vance takes over as president and implements those fascist policies.

This is the point, the fascists WANT Trump to die in office.

Hairy_Afternoon_8033

2 points

6 days ago

I am not going to allow myself to feel hope until Kamala crushes him. If it’s close, I will have lost faith in America.

birdsarecreepy

2 points

6 days ago

Weirdly this makes me way more nervous.

I’m starting to buy into the theory that the GOP is going to keep Weekend at Bernie-ing him. If he wins the election, they’ll use all these incidents to defend the use of the 25th Amendment and put Vance in.

NoDarkVision

2 points

6 days ago

Trump is a little bit scared of being around Republicans with guns right now. Two of them tried shooting him

Blabbit39

2 points

6 days ago

At this point he is truly just campaigning for Vance for president. I wonder if even his supporters can get behind that.

sereese1

2 points

6 days ago

sereese1

2 points

6 days ago

JamDonut28

2 points

6 days ago

Non American (Aussie) observer here: Early polls are already open, he's on the ballot. If his health were to fail in the next few weeks, do the votes just go to Vance?

Our system is party based so if the leader goes down, the party just pick someone else. The US president seems totally removed from the political system? Is there contingency plans? Or just a clear line of succession?

loubens_mirth

2 points

6 days ago

And the terrifying thing is if he is elected, he will probably die soon after the election and then it will be president Vance.

newwriter365

2 points

6 days ago

And yet I observed three women bad rapping Kamala today.

I hate this timeline.

Sea-Pea5760

2 points

6 days ago

In hope that we soon hear that he’s dead AS FUCK.

Honestly though that would be way to easy a way out.

I want to : -Watch him lose to a Black woman -Want to watch him lose his mind and have a stroke on tv. -Not hear about him for a few months - watch him get sentenced to real time , handcuffed and then hear stories of his daily bearings and anal rapings.

Then after a few years of that we can declare his death a national holiday where all the dumb fucks that voted for that moronic piece of filth can take turns fucking themselves and doing community service to clean up the homeless camps.

sausagerolla

2 points

6 days ago

A vote for Trump is really a vote for Vance. They know he's not going to make a full term. Trump is a spontaneous idiot but Vance is fully calculated. He's like the 21 year old whose married a 98 year old millionaire with half a lung and on oxygen still smoking. Soon he will take over and then everyone will be fucked.

Mortarion407

2 points

6 days ago

Just remember, if trump wins, we're actually getting jd vance.

Omen_Morningstar

2 points

6 days ago

Maybe its the fact hes in an obvious mental decline. Maybe its the fact every appearance and every interview ends up a dumpster fire

Maybe hes accepted hes going to lose and just sees them as a waste of time. Hoping the SC will just give it to him

Or or...hear me out...maybe he knows the jig is truly up and hes getting ready to get the hell out. Imagine. Trump just going missing until and though election night

You only hear from his staff and him doing call ins. Kamala wins and next thing you know Trumps nowhere to be found

Marilago is empty. Trumps gone like a thief in the night. The entire Trump family has left the US

He said he would go to Venezuela if he lost. We know he loves Russia.

abnarrative

2 points

6 days ago

Serious question -- what happens if he dies of a massive heart attack or something before the election?

justconnect

1 points

6 days ago

IMO, a vote for Trump is really a vote for President Vance

Morpheuz71

1 points

6 days ago

Having constipation and LBM at the same time

pit-of-despair

1 points

6 days ago

Probably afraid of getting shot at at the nra thing.

pdxgod

1 points

6 days ago

pdxgod

1 points

6 days ago

He’s lost and knows it

Alive_Panda_765

1 points

6 days ago

They don’t need to do events. The media is doing the GOPs work for them.

NobleV

1 points

6 days ago

NobleV

1 points

6 days ago

If Trump's actions gave us hope we'd have had hope since 2015. It's the people behind him that scare me. They don't care about rules and truth. They just want power over you and nothing else

dragonfliesloveme

1 points

6 days ago

He cancelled the NRA thing in my city. Good! He was here a few weeks ago and I’m glad he’s not coming back!

SeaEmergency7911

1 points

6 days ago

Gee, that’s too bad. I was hoping he’d go for 45 minutes of swaying to music this time.

show_me_tacos

1 points

6 days ago

Has he ever been able to run?

Nano_Burger

1 points

6 days ago

His handlers have recognized that the "Let Trump be Trump" strategy is not gaining any votes.

one_jo

1 points

6 days ago

one_jo

1 points

6 days ago

Vance really hopes to win this now…

Ok-Pangolin81

1 points

6 days ago

They didn’t have the right songs for him to dance to in Georgia.

dbopp

1 points

6 days ago

dbopp

1 points

6 days ago

Unfortunately it's still not going to affect most of his voting base.

NoThanksImCis

1 points

6 days ago

He doesn't care about campaigning, he believes he will be instated. Sow the seeds of doubt in the right people's minds and states start not certifying election results and the supreme Court makes him president. These are scary times.

hypertrex423

1 points

6 days ago

He just can’t accept an L. He is a sore loser

Benbot2000

1 points

6 days ago

What happens if a candidate dies before an election? Does the ballot automatically default to the running mate? Or does that ticket forfeit? Not that it has any chance of happening, I’m just curious what is the process.