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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And just like that, Trump hijacked the news cycle and animated his base. [/quote]

This is something that Trump doesn't ever really seem to understand.  His base is not enough to get him elected.  He think because there are millions who love him that is enough.  But as we've seen, even 80M is not enough when 88M dislike him and won't vote for him.

He may have pandered to his base, but he lost ground with the people that matter.  When Harris took over as presumptive Democratic nominee, there were about 45% support for each of them, but the undecideds grew from 2% to 9%.  Those 9% (especially the ones in swing states) are the ones that will crown the victor in the election.  And if anything, this interview slid more of that 9% to lean Harris.

This interview is going to go over as well as the debate went over for Biden.  The only distinction is that his base doesn't care, so he won't be forced out of the nomination.  But whether he's stolen the news cycle or not, he's losing his grip on swing states and this only exacerbated his swing state problems.  When Harris announces her VP nomination, she'll grab some swing states.  Each member of her short list will bring a different subset of the swing states.  Then when the Democratic convention hits, she'll actually get a bump, unlike Trump.  Trump's selection of Vance killed any bump that he was supposed to get from the RNC convention.  This interview was another drive up the exit ramp on the highway to 270.  He's getting on the highway, but going the wrong way.  [/quote]

I think the PP's point is that the media focus is now on this instead of All-Kamala All the time.[/quote]

I understand that.  But what Trump doesn't understand is commanding the media focus is only important when that is going to sway undecided votes.  Commanding the media focus to speak indirectly to his base only serves to fuel his egocentric Hubris.  He loves that which is why he does it.  He loves his sycophants idolatry of him.  But this type of media focus on him, only serves to drive uncommitted votes away from him.  He's winning the battle, but losing the war.[/quote]

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