The Real Reason(s) Trump Is Barely Campaigning
No, it's not because his lazy ass like to golf so much.
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With just 90 days left to the 2024 election, you’d think Donald Trump would be racing around the country in a mad dash. That is, after all, what candidates do in the closing days of a presidential campaign. They hold rallies and town halls and go to county fairs and, I dunno, kiss babies or something. They do this almost exclusively in swing states or states where their support is a little softer than they’d like.
But not Donald Trump. Trump, who doesn’t have an actual job, has a single campaign event this week in Montana while Kamala Harris the Vice President is all over the country in a multi-state whirlwind:
Harris being super active probably has something to do with her picking Tim Walz as her running mate just a few hours ago. Then again, I don’t recall Trump doing a multi-state blitz after picking sofa king Vance…
Curiously, certain “journalists” are less interested in Trump’s lack of campaigning than they are about their lack of access to Harris…
I, for one, can’t blame Harris. After watching the dirty shit the press did to her friend Joe Biden and how they tore Hillary Clinton to pieces so they could install Donald fucking Trump in office, what possible incentive would she have to pander to journalists? Not for nothing, from the second Joe Biden stepped aside, the headlines have been a parade of journalistic disgrace. That’s not even getting into the three years preceding Biden stepping aside where the only goal of the press was to undermine Biden’s administration and rehabilitate Trump to make the 2024 race “competitive.”
So, yeah, it’s not surprising that Harris isn’t making time for a broken media actively working to install a fascist in power again. It’s even less surprising that the same media isn’t questioning why said fascist isn’t campaigning at the most critical juncture of the election.
But we’re not shitty journalists from shitty media outlets trying to help a shitty person make America shitty again. So what’s going on with Trump? Why is he not campaigning?
It’s not because he’s confident he’s winning. He most certainly fucking is not. It’s been slightly over two weeks since Biden stepped aside and endorsed his vice president. Trump went from slightly ahead of Biden in polls he’s been overperforming in all year to noticeably behind Harris in those same polls. You know, the ones he’s been overperforming in.
How do we know Trump and his flunkies are no longer assured of winning? They’re running ads in North Carolina now, a state they assumed they had in the bag. That’s not a sign of “We’re winning!”
So, again, what’s going on? Why isn’t Trump holding rally after rally after rally? He loves doing rallies. He loves the adoration of his cult. It’s his life’s blood. He gets off on it.
There are a few things going on
here and all of them explain why the press refuses to talk about this. Every single answer brings up topics the press knows will hurt Trump and is therefore verboten.
Trump just doesn’t have the energy to fly around the country and hold multiple rallies anymore: Let’s not kid ourselves here, Trump couldn’t even stay awake during his own fucking trial. Not a civil trial where the worst outcome would be a huge fine and the possible end of his business. This was a criminal trial where a guilty verdict would see him in prison for years. YEARS! And he fell asleep almost every single day.
Trump also fell asleep during his own coronation at the RNC. He was being worshipped and praised as a Jesus-like religious figure, the thing he loves most in the world other than raping little girls, and Trump still fell asleep!
Whatever drug he takes to keep himself active (Adderall, I hear), is clearly no longer working. But discussing Trump’s low energy and inability to handle the rigors of campaigning is off-limits for the press, apparently. This is after several months of that same press assuring us that age was THE most important factor along with the physical and mental fitness of a candidate. Isn’t it interesting that we’re no longer talking about that even though Trump is older than Biden was when he ran in 2020?Trump is draining the party of money and can’t afford huge rallies: Fun fact! Rallies cost money! Indoor rallies cost more. Large venues like stadiums cost more than, say, high schools. Trump is known to not pay his bills and no one is going to allow him to hold a rally now and pay
laternever.
It’s true that Trump has raised a lot of money from racist rubes and fascist billionaires but his campaign also hemorrhages money as quickly as it raises it. Between lavishing money ongrifters“consultants” and putting money into Trump’s pocket and wasting money on private airplanes and hundreds of millions on legal fees to keep Trump out of jail, Trump has burned through an enormous amount of cash.
The RNC is run by Trump’s daughter-in-law and is now just a giant scam to drain money from the GOP. WinRed has been draining hundreds of millions from donors and the entire party is just a massive grift from top to bottom, leaving state parties bleeding cash left and right.
The press occasionally mentions this but they don’t want to look too closely because “GOP IN DISARRAY!” is not the preferred narrative. If the press cannot talk about “DEMS IN DISARRAY!” then they’d rather not talk about the internal politics of the parties at all.
At some point in the not-too-distant future, when the Republican Party’s money trouble becomes so severe it can’t be hidden anymore, the press will be shocked, shocked I tell you!, to discover the rot along with the rest of us. Who could have known something like this was coming?! Blue Gal of the Professional Left has been banging that drum for years but what the fuck do we dirty liberals know, right?Trump doesn’t think he needs to campaign because he’s planning on stealing the election anyway: This is the most obvious and unspoken truth of what’s going on. It’s also something the press is going to great lengths to dance around. Trump and the GOP keep telling us they’re going to lose but it won’t matter because the courts will just flip the results.
That’s why Trump keeps saying he doesn’t need votes. That’s why Republicans keep saying the election is already rigged before the first ballot has been cast. That’s why dozens upon dozens of elected Republicans have refused to certify election results across the country, even for local elections that don’t matter.
They’re all laying the groundwork for refusing to certify the results of the 2024 election. And it won’t just be in battleground states. It will be everywhere to create the illusion of widespread election fraud. The purpose of this illusion will be so the Supreme Court will have an excuse to step in and rule that Trump is president.
We all know they’re doing this and that, more than anything, is why the press won’t talk about why Trump isn’t campaigning. To tell the public Trump is not campaigning because he “knows” the actual election doesn’t matter is to call attention to the threat Trump and the GOP pose to democracy. The press will never do that. They have too much invested in Trump’s success.
There is, however, a fundamental problem with letting everyone know you’re a desperate criminal willing to do anything to stay in power: People will expect you to try something desperately criminal and will be far less willing to put up with it.
I’ve made this argument before and I will make it many times before and after the election. Stealing an election only works if people don’t know you stole it.1 Republicans have this idea that they can just lie to the public about “massive voter fraud” and the lie will be enough. That will work in MAGAland. It won’t work anywhere else.
When people demand proof, Republicans won’t have it. They’ll just yell and scream and wave papers in front of cameras. But they won’t have proof. When corrupt Republican judges try to invalidate hundreds of thousands of ballots, people are going to demand even more proof and there still won’t be any. When the infinitely corrupt Republican Justices of the Supreme Court try to say the House gets to pick the president, thus allowing Republicans to install Trump, there will be riots because we will all know that they’re lying. That this was the plan all along.
If this was a close election with Harris winning by a few thousand votes, they might get away with it. But that’s not going to be the case. November is shaping up to be an absolute electoral slaughter with Trump losing by truly stunning numbers. The larger the loss, the harder it becomes to steal the election. The fiction becomes impossible to maintain, even with the help of a complicit press.
So now you know why Trump isn’t campaigning. A combination of frailty, lack of money, and the intent to steal the election anyway. You also know the assignment: Bury this fascist fuck under so many blue votes that he has no choice but to flee the country to avoid going to prison for the rest of his miserable life.
There are 90 days until the 2024 election. Vote blue like your life depends on it. No kings. No weirdos. Vote Harris.
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The only other way you get away with stealing an election is through brute force but that’s not an option for Trump. He doesn’t control the military and his last attempt at a violent coup was sloppy. He won’t get a second shot at it.
What a perfect exposition of the situation. I agree on all counts and am delighted that you came out and said it with such clarity.
Exactly right. The third reason is the one that concerns me most, because of the probability of violence at the polls. A tiny minority of the MAGA population has proven willing to commit crimes on their masters' behalf, and it doesn't take much to deter a group of older folks (like me. Thank goodness I live in Washington, an all-vote-by-mail state!) As a younger woman, I'd have been happy to act as bodyguard, but those days are past.
Please remind people to check their voting status! Many states are attempting to purge voters from their rolls, with varying degrees of success. Check yours, now and a couple of weeks before the election, to make certain you're voting status is still active.
And make a plan to vote! Go in groups, with bodyguards if necessary. The GOP is "hiring"
people as voting place watchers, and we all know what that means!