Acceptance speech and on to the campaign trail
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Or, coherence doesn't matter.
It is not an overstatement to say that Trump is the weirdest speechifier in the history of American politics. He just gets up there and blathers. Generally ignoring any prepared text, he boasts, fabricates, insults, repeats himself and pulls oddball allusions out of curious corners of his brain (on Thursday, he repeated a past reference to Hannibal Lecter, the fictional, cannibalistic, serial killer, then left it hanging, unexplained).
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/trump-was-born-a-rambling-man/
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During a campaign event attended by thousands of enthusiastic supporters, Donald Trump cast last week's assassination attempt, where he was shot in the ear, as an act of sacrifice....
"Last week, I took a bullet for democracy," he said.
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With Biden out, Vance may be the wrong pick for Trump
The former president has an electability problem among women, and his pick for vice president only compounds it.
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He just can't help himself. He's going to be campaigning against Biden, hopefully till November...
Donald Trump went on a Truth Social posting spree to complain about Joe Biden's exit from the 2024 race and demand a refund for money spent campaigning against the president.
In his conspiracy-filled rant, Trump claimed the president never had COVID, he is not running the country, and Democrats stole the primary race from him. He also bestowed a nickname upon his apparent new opponent: Lyin' Kamala Harris. Within 24 hours of Biden dropping out, Democrats coalesced around Harris and began backing her as the presidential frontrunner. Trump did not appear happy about the Democrats' pivot, complaining on social media that his campaign has to "start all over."
"So, we are forced to spend time and money on fighting Crooked Joe Biden, he polls badly after having a terrible debate, and quits the race," Trump said. "Shouldn’t the Republican Party be reimbursed for fraud in that everybody around Joe, including his doctors and the Fake News Media, knew he was not capable of running for, or being, President? Just askin’?"
One thing's fer sure. Teh Donald is even more rattled than usual.
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“I was an attorney general. I know Trump’s type.”
I like how things are shaping up!
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Buyer’s remorse?
Republicans are already souring on JD Vance
“I’m a little surprised they didn’t vet him as thoroughly as they should have,” said one GOP strategist..Critics also highlighted Vance’s authoring of the foreword to an upcoming book by Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation who has advocated for a “second American revolution” he hopes will remain “bloodless.” Roberts is the head of Project 2025 — a far-right policy blueprint from which Trump has fought to distance himself.
In a review of the book, Vance wrote: “We are now all realizing that it’s time to circle the wagons and load the muskets. In the fights that lie ahead, these ideas are an essential weapon.”
“I’m a little surprised they didn’t vet him as thoroughly as they should have, or if they did, did they not know he was writing the forward to Kevin Roberts’ book,” said a Republican strategist and veteran of multiple presidential campaigns, granted anonymity to speak freely. “So, you’ve got Trump trashing this Project 2025, and Vance writing the foreword.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/26/republicans-jd-vance-attacks-00171473
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What started as a press conference on future presidential debates quickly spiraled into Donald Trump venting about media coverage of his rival and insisting that his rally crowds — especially in South Carolina — are bigger.
"I have hundreds of thousands of people," Trump declared at his lectern Aug. 8. "In South Carolina, I had 88,000 people.
But as the former president stood before reporters, he fumed.
"Nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that. And when she gets 1,000 people and everybody starts jumping. You know that if I had 1,000 people (you) would say, people would say, 'That's the end of his campaign,' " he said.
That's when he claimed he draws hundreds of thousands of people, including an 88,000-person rally in South Carolina.
But the rally Trump appeared to be referencing wasn't a rally at all. It was a football game.
The former president seemed to be mentioning his Nov. 25 appearance at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia for the state's biggest college football spectacle of the year: the Clemson-South Carolina football matchup.
The game was not a Trump campaign rally. It's a college duel that takes place every year.
His appearance was brief.
Trump walked onto the field, standing at the 25-yard-line with Gov. Henry McMaster. Loud cheers greeted him along with scattered boos. Trump waved to fans and the student section.
He made no remarks. He just smiled and waved.
Bakari Sellers, a former South Carolina lawmaker who is now a well-known political commentator on CNN, ripped into Trump for his claim.
"Donald Trump is lying. In South Carolina he did not have 88,000 people," Sellers wrote on social media. "He showed up to a Carolina-Clemson game. Hell, I was there!!"
