Susan Glasser“No one, except perhaps the president himself, has lamented the demise of Joe Biden’s reelection campaign more than Donald Trump.”
“For 18 days, Trump never recovered from his grief, alternating between anger and denial at the loss of his favorite target. On Tuesday, visibly shaken by Kamala Harris’s rising approval ratings and his decision that morning to name popular Midwestern governor Tim Walz as his running mate, Trump holed up at his Mar-a-Lago resort and demanded that Biden rejoin the race.”
“In a bizarre social media post, the former president floated the theory that he is so infuriated by the ‘historically tragic mistake’ of Biden stepping down from office that he may storm the Democratic National Convention later this month in a bid to reclaim the nomination. Wish come true.”
“Apparently, no one told Trump that Harris had already clinched the Democratic nomination as of Monday night in a de facto roll-call vote of party delegates. Of course, the point is not veracity, and Trump’s post was better read as a cry for help. Trump felt much better about the 2024 election when he was certain he would win.”
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