Donald Trump and his allies continue to talk about a coup.
I’m not sure what that means for them.
It seems more an expression of frustration than anything else: The campaign spent two years preparing to run against Joe Biden, whose biggest problems were frailty and mental acuity, and now they have an energetic 59-year-old vice president who is not yet fully defined at a time when presidential candidates are usually the norm.
A ‘weird’ campaign: The surprising differences in coverage of Harris and Vance
In an interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump said, “They’ve staged a coup against the president of the United States. They said to the president, ‘You’re going out of office.’ You’re way down in the polls, I think 17 points. It’s like you’re running against somebody and you’re really winning and then they remove him and replace him with somebody else. Nobody’s ever heard of anything like this. This is a coup.”
I can understand the argument that 14 million people voted for Biden in the primaries and no one voted for Harris. — She was on the same ticket as him — And they have been disenfranchised.
The mainstream media and the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, then pressured Biden to step down through increasingly blatant leaks.
A photo of former US President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Getty Images)
But the reason this wasn’t a huge success is because Harris was the only candidate with the president’s endorsement. Not a single Democrat ran against her — not Gretchen Whitmer, not Gavin Newsom, not Pete Buttigieg, not Josh Shapiro, not any of the other names being mentioned.
“The Democratic presidential nominee, who was the first African-American woman to run for president, was the first African-American woman to run for president in 2016. She was the first African-American woman to run for president in 2017. She was the first African-American woman to run for president in 2018. She was the first African-American woman to run for president in 2019 …
In an audio recording obtained by The Washington Post, J.D. Vance told Minnesota donors that the vice president presents a unique challenge.
Kamala is riding a wave of positive press, but skeptics see it as a risky choice
“We’ve all been caught a bit politically off guard,” Vance said. “The bad news is that Kamala Harris doesn’t have the same problems that Joe Biden does, because she’s a lot younger, after all. And Kamala Harris is certainly not going through the same struggles that Joe Biden is…”
“Let’s be honest, 10 days ago, everybody had an opinion about the two candidates who were running for president. Love them or hate them, everybody has an opinion about Donald Trump and Joe Biden over the last eight years. But with Kamala Harris, people don’t really know.”
This is candor behind closed doors.
Former US President Donald Trump arrives at the Republican National Convention (RNC) at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It also underscores how the battle to define the vice-president’s image over the coming weeks will determine the success or failure of her candidacy.
His first ads, airing in battleground states since winning the nomination, use the tagline “Failed. Weak. Dangerously Liberal” and blame Ms Harris for the chaos at the border.
Vance has also had tough times. CNN quoted him as saying several years ago:
“We’re not sociopaths and we think babies are a good thing…
With Pelosi’s endorsement and no challenger emerging, the race to define Kamala Harris ensues
“And the fact that a lot of people, particularly in the American leadership, don’t have that in their lives.
“I worry that this will make people more sociopathic and ultimately make the country as a whole a little less mentally stable.”
As for Twitter, “Most of the time, the craziest and most psychotic people are the ones without children.”
As I have argued, the mainstream media seems far more interested in Vance’s history of controversial statements than Harris’ past ultra-liberal positions, including her promotion of bail funds for BLM rioters in 2020.
US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Westover High School in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on July 18, 2024. (Alison Joyce/AFP via Getty Images)
The New York Times described her old videos and comments as being “weaponized” by Republicans, as if the media had no obligation to investigate.
More news from the “Ingram Angle” interview:
Trump falsely accused the president in classified documents: “Mr. Biden was really convicted. He was cleared of the case. By the way, you’re talking about a lot more. [documents]And he didn’t have the Presidential Records Act… They could have said he was incompetent and therefore couldn’t stand trial, and yet he would have been allowed to be president.”
Biden will not have to face trial because special counsel Robert Hur declined to prosecute. He became aware of many classified documents while he was vice president and voluntarily contacted authorities to turn them over.
Trump, who was charged with concealing documents, boasted that the case was thrown out by a Florida judge he appointed, Eileen Cannon, who has repeatedly ruled in Trump’s favor. The case is under appeal.
– He sent conflicting messages about the debate, saying he would “probably” debate Harris but “can explain why I wouldn’t.”
Trump defused the furore by telling his Christian audience that they didn’t need to vote because he would fix everything in four years. He said he was telling the crowd, “You didn’t vote before. Now vote. I’m going to fix the country. You don’t need to vote anymore. Your vote isn’t needed. You don’t have to vote again.”
The former president said Harris “has lost her laugh. I’ve noticed that I no longer see that crazy laugh of hers. She’s crazy. That laugh is the laugh of a crazy person.”
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With less than 100 days to go, there may not be much to laugh about in what is expected to be an ugly election campaign.
