Trump slips a little more in the polling…says some unhinged and desperate-sounding things online or in some speeches…articles say everyone is urging him to change his act, which sounds to me like someone telling Foster Brooks to knock off the drunk bit…
And so it goes. I saw a clip of him ranting — as if this is an issue of any importance whatsoever — that Kamala Harris was made to look unrealistically attractive on the current Time cover. As Kevin Drum points out, that's ridiculous. Donald's just mad he's not on that cover. (Remember when it came out that Trump had a fake cover of Time on his wall that made him look the way he wanted every magazine to make him look?)
In fact, that's pretty much what all Trump's rage tweets and speeches are about these days: I'm not getting all the attention! The Democratic National Convention oughta send him even farther over that ledge. And here, Amanda Marcotte makes a good point…
But Republicans may be overly optimistic that a pivot-to-policy approach would do much better for Trump. If there's anything the majority of Americans hate more than Trump's vile personality, it's his policy agenda.
I don't expect this freefall to last. At some point, Trump's gotta rebound a little and we'll get all those clickbait stories about him maybe making a comeback. But right now, I don't think Kamala's winning so much as Donald is losing…and not just the election. What he's losing is "it."