Trump in mourning
➕ 8 votes in Pennsylvania.
Donald Trump is rehashing his beefs with Bret Baier, David Muir, John Micklethwait and Van Jones.
The former president spent the opening 35 minutes of a Thursday morning podcast with Patrick Bet-David soaking himself in grievance about how unfairly he’s treated by media figures of all stripes and how he’ll never let it go.
Bet-David stirred him up about Barack Obama too, but Kamala Harris?
She was nearly an afterthought.
Why wouldn’t she be, though? He can’t possibly lose a fair fight.
To a “retard.”
“If the election’s not rigged we’re going to win,” Trump told Bet-David.
Harris, in La Crosse Wisconsin Thursday afternoon, had an iridescent bounce in her step, like she’s beginning to feel it. Her Fox foray felt like a turning point for an inherently cautious candidate becoming comfortable enough to climb out of her shell.
And before your roll your eyes and assume I’m being lathered up with liberal coconut 🥥 tree oil, recall I thought she was struggling to fake it three weeks ago.
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After enough interviews and accompanying rhetorical flubs, Harris now plainly understands the assignment in these final 19 nights is to prosecute the case against Trump.
And then do it again.
And again.
On the stage in La Crosse you’ll be surprised to hear she did not open her remarks complaining about Baier or Ben Shapiro or Buck Sexton but instead chose to