David Frum: “The day before Vance tweeted to me, former President Donald Trump was live-streaming touting a dubious new cryptocurrency venture. That same day, he was interviewed by conspiracy theorist Wayne Allyn Root, in which Trump went back to his old ways of criticizing mail-in voting, believing the Postal Service was not able to fairly deliver Trump votes.”
“The day before, the Secret Service opened fire on a man with a rifle near Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course. The apparent assassination attempt made headlines, but underlying the story was the fact that the presidential candidate had taken a day off to play golf 50 days before Election Day.”
“Trump plays a lot of golf and surprisingly little campaigning. When he does, he makes some strange choices of places. Today he’s in Nassau County, New York. New York hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1984. In 2020, Trump got 38% of the New York vote. But Trump either convinced himself or someone convinced him that he could be competitive in New York this year…”
“Rarely has a presidential campaign gone from seeming certainty to utter chaos as did Trump-Vance… The air was filled with the stench of impending defeat, a defeat much of it self-inflicted.”
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