Did Donald Trump Already Forget He’s Running for President?

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    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    Trump does not even have a campaign manager, when is his next campaign rallies?!! There doesn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm about Trump's third run for the presidency either?!! I think Trump will be indicted and convicted too?!!

    More than three weeks after announcing his candidacy for president, Donald Trump has yet to hold a rally or even leave his adoptive home state of Florida. In fact, according to recent reports, Trump has barely left his home.

    “The former president announced his 2024 run against the wishes of most of the GOP and his close advisers, largely out of frustration with momentum shifting to Ron DeSantis,” said Alyssa Farah Griffin, the former White House communications director for Trump and current co-host on The View. “Now he’s several weeks into a presidential run with no real apparatus, zero message, and no events. So far, it’s a spite-run and it’s being received as poorly as one could expect.”

    Trump advisers and confidants are split on whether this is all part of the plan—more eight-dimensional chess from a man constantly credited with grand master moves—or actually another unforced error, launching a presidential campaign without state leadership in place. The static campaign is also an indication of where the MAGA movement stands within the GOP after disappointing midterm losses: intact and influential, but also rudderless and out of steam.

    The 2024 campaign, thus far, has largely been a campaign in name only.


    Indeed, the former president hasn’t hit the trail in a meaningful way. He’s opted instead to hunker down at his Mar-a-Lago estate. That, of course, hasn’t stopped the former president from making news—just not the news a nascent presidential campaign would want.

    Trump garnered international attention when he hosted an avowed white nationalist and a disgraced antisemitic rapper on the Mar-a-Lago patio for dinner. And he made more news over the weekend when he suggested tossing out the Constitution so he could be reinstated as president.

    Those haven’t been the headlines Trump needed or wanted. But he also hasn’t attempted to do anything about it.
    “So far, he has gone down from his bedroom, made an announcement, gone back up to his bedroom and hasn’t been seen since except to have dinner with a white supremacist,” a 2020 adviser recently told CNN.

    It was more than a month ago when Trump held his last MAGA rally—on the eve of the midterm elections, outside of Dayton, Ohio, on behalf of then-Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance. While Vance won his election, many other Trump-backed candidates did not. The Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake—a candidate who was rumored to be a potential pick for Trump—lost.

    So, too, did another Trump-backed candidate: GOP Pennsylvania Senate candidate Mehmet Oz. And on Tuesday night, the 2022 blue tide got stronger, in a year that was supposed to be a red wave, when Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker lost to Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock.

    Three weeks after his campaign announcements in 2020 and 2016, Trump was already on the road, hitting early states like South Carolina and New Hampshire. In the 2020 perma-campaign, he held a rally on Feb. 1, 2017, less than two weeks after he was inaugurated.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/did-donal...094947774.html


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