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Donald Trump is in a very different position than he was just a month ago. And it shows.
The race remains close, but the credit now belongs to Kamala Harris and Trump’s crusade is heralding a reversal of racial dynamics, in other ways.
Trump continues to create potential off-ramps for the Sept. 10 debate with Kamala Harris, complaining that he shouldn’t have to attend the debate because it’s presented through ABC News, which he says Array endorses him. This despite having already agreed to a debate on ABC News, first with Biden and then again with Harris.
But in another sign of the race’s transformative dynamics, Harris’ campaign is now haggling over her terms, arguing that the candidates’ microphones will have to remain in the debate. This is a substitution for Biden’s position. He objected to hot mics and made them a condition of his initial offer of debates. Overall, this is a small game point, however, it is one where Harris is more competitive than Biden, suggesting she is content to confront Trump’s attempts to talk about her. and sometimes assigns Trump the responsibility of complying with and rejecting his demands.
In another transparent sign that Trump’s crusade is hot on his heels, Trump himself is accelerating his own crusade, his crusade team told the WSJ: “Trump’s advisers, who are gearing up for Harris to get a post-mainstream spice in the polls, say he will be more active in the election crusade after having set a modest pace when President Biden was still in the race.
I would adopt a wait-and-see technique of how much more effort Trump is putting into his crusade. Believe it when you see it, especially in light of this WSJ report in the same article: “For a while, most events seen as a result of Trump’s campaign are smaller scale, saving cash , but they are also designed to keep Trump more focused on any given issue, it is a constant struggle. ”
If the Trump crusade reset requires keeping him “on topic,” that makes me skeptical about the truth of the reset. It will be a long road to November for Trump’s crusade, stalled with a candidate who may be chronically lagging behind. in his career, overshadowed by a mixed-race woman, and facing the prospect of not only wasting but also a genuine criminal sentence after all.
RFK Jr. ‘s strange, narcissistic and unnecessary presidential crusade ended on Friday in the only possible way: with the victory of Donald Trump. Despite (or perhaps because of) all his baggage (anti-vaccine, pro-road-kill bears, etc. ), RFK Jr. is now the flavor of the week in MAGA Land, and Trump even went so far as to retweet a post he makes reference to a Trump-Kennedy “Ticket. ” Poor JD Vance.
Colorado’s Republican Party voted to unseat its debatable president, Dave Williams, who was elected last year. Williams, among other things, had defamed the LGBTQ community and called for all Pride flags to be burned.
Adam Unikowsky, a former Antonin Scalia employee, takes a closer look at last week’s Arkansas Supreme Court ruling to reject an abortion rights polling initiative, because sponsors hadn’t dotted the i’s and i’s. Unikowsky’s provocative headline gives an idea of where it is headed: “They did not present a photocopy that was not necessary. “»
In another indication of the Supreme Court’s degraded and indistinct jurisprudence on firearms, a federal ruling in Kansas ruled last week that a longstanding ban on firearms violated the Second Amendment, ignoring charges of gun ownership against a criminal defendant.
After more than a year in this position, I do not perceive Putin’s control over Trump.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, who led the United States’ response to the COVID pandemic and retired after nearly 40 years as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is recovering at home after being hospitalized with a COVID-19 infection. West Nile virus that affected him the most. He probably contracted a mosquito bite on his lawn in Washington. Fauci, 83, is expected to make a full recovery.
The two American astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station will use the damned Boeing Starliner that took them there to return to Earth. Instead, the Boeing ship will return autonomously next month, and astronauts will wait until next year for a SpaceX ship to arrive. arrive and take them home, NASA announced over the weekend.
Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore arrived at the ISS in June for a planned 8-day project that will now last about 8 months until the scheduled return of SpaceX’s Dragon in February.
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