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NCDem47

(3,323 posts)
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 12:53 AM Aug 2024

I'm convinced Trump thought he could cakewalk this election against Biden.

Absolute bare minimum for campaigning. Stay in a tight bubble. Reduce opportunities for forced errors (as if!). Pissed as hell now he has to get out there and do something against Harris/Walz. FORCED to further reveal himself and mix amongst riff raff you know he has contempt for.

Then again, maybe the goal wasn’t to win it with exposure, but to lean on voter suppression in the states and send to House and/or Supreme Court.

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I'm convinced Trump thought he could cakewalk this election against Biden. (Original Post) NCDem47 Aug 2024 OP
That was trump's delusion. diane in sf Aug 2024 #1
Does he really even have a campaign like we're used to seeing? Who is he listening to? I'm wondering what shows brewens Aug 2024 #2
HE DOES NOT LISTEN TO ANYONE Skittles Aug 2024 #4
that might have been Trump's delusion (who knows with this guy?) stopdiggin Aug 2024 #3
He thought he could just go through the motions. Demobrat Aug 2024 #5
Spot on. NCDem47 Aug 2024 #7
The fantasizing about Biden is just sad. yellowcanine Aug 2024 #9
I don't think it's going through the motions Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #11
If we could buy him for what he's worth notemason Aug 2024 #6
Delusions that he could win by default. no_hypocrisy Aug 2024 #8
Now he shits the bed and rolls in it. yellowcanine Aug 2024 #10
 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
2. Does he really even have a campaign like we're used to seeing? Who is he listening to? I'm wondering what shows
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:01 AM
Aug 2024

up on the ground nationwide for republicans where they need it. The RNC may be such a cluster like no one has ever seen before! LOL

Money has to get to the right people doing the work If it's bad, they have to keep their mouths shut about it the way things stand right now.

stopdiggin

(15,025 posts)
3. that might have been Trump's delusion (who knows with this guy?)
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:26 AM
Aug 2024

doubt very seriously if there were any serious heads in the campaign - that thought it was going to be anything like a walkover.

The serious heads have always known that - for whatever problems Biden might have had - their own guy had a built in problem with the (almost immutable) ceiling that has long held in Trump's numbers and support. The guy just isn't moving anybody into his column. And it's been that way for a long time. So ... You have to figure out a way to win with the numbers that you have. And they just aren't very impressive.

Demobrat

(10,263 posts)
5. He thought he could just go through the motions.
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 02:34 AM
Aug 2024

Keep repeating the same old talking points by rote. The border. Biden’s age.
Get a few grievances off his chest. No thinking involved. Soak up the worship. Play a few rounds of golf. He had it down. Like an actor who’s been in the same stage play for 20 years.

Now he has to think on his feet and he just can’t do it. He knows he’s outmatched so he’s desperate for the good old days of two and a half weeks ago. Literally screaming for Joe Biden to come back.

A more joyous sight has rarely been seen.

 

Zoomie1986

(1,213 posts)
11. I don't think it's going through the motions
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 01:58 PM
Aug 2024

It's that he makes the typical mistake of having someone (his father, Roy Cohn) teach him a bag of tricks that has (mostly) worked for him all his life to get what he wants, but he's too stupid to come up with any new ones when he's faced with someone who can counter those tired old tricks.

Notice how he keeps cycling through the same boring tactics, over and over: Name calling, taunts, threats (implicit and explicit), silly distractions, lies, whining, bullying, and so on. When all else fails, sue!

The problem is that those tactics work the few times you cross up a random plumber in Hoboken where others can't see. They don't work with a national audience who are watching...and taking notes.

notemason

(572 posts)
6. If we could buy him for what he's worth
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 03:27 AM
Aug 2024

and sell him for what he thinks he's worth, we could retire the national debt.

no_hypocrisy

(54,269 posts)
8. Delusions that he could win by default.
Wed Aug 7, 2024, 04:57 AM
Aug 2024

Now he has to work for it.

Reminiscent of how Trump thought all he had to do was to open a casino or three and the money would roll in without having to earn it.

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