"This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared," reads the headline in The Atlantic following Vice President Kamala Harris' coronation as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. "A campaign that had been optimized to beat Joe Biden must now be reinvented," reports Tom Alberta.
Hahaahahaha
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) July 22, 2024
Following Biden’s withdrawal from the race, Trump allies are now second-guessing the JD Vance pickhttps://t.co/EGHmklHs44 pic.twitter.com/ITZFVrzxRo
Really? How so? Alberta writes:
On the evening of Super Tuesday, March 5, shortly before Donald Trump effectively ended the Republican primary and earned a general-election rematch with President Joe Biden, I asked the co-managers of Trump’s presidential campaign what they feared most about Biden.
“Honestly, it’s less him,” Chris LaCivita told me. “And more—”
“Institutional Democrats,” Susie Wiles said, finishing her partner’s thought.
It was a revealing exchange, and a theme we would revisit frequently. The Democratic Party, Wiles and LaCivita would tell me in conversations over the coming months, was a machine—well organized and well financed, with a record of support from the low-propensity voters who turn out every four years in presidential contests. Ordinarily, they explained, Democrats would have structural superiority in a race like this one. But something was holding the party back: Biden.
That ignores the savage response Donald Trump had to Harris's challenge of J.D. Vance: “We don’t know who the Democrat nominee for Vice President is going to be, so we can’t lock in a date before their convention. To do so would be unfair to Gavin Newsom, JB Pritzker, Gretchen Whitmer, or whoever Kamala Harris picks as her running mate.” The Trump campaign knew before the Democrats that Biden wasn't going to be the nominee.
Literally no one in the GOP is second guessing that pick. The Atlantic as usual is making shit up.
— AdamInHTownTX (Not a Neurologist) (@AdamInHTownTX) July 22, 2024
No, they’re not.
— Save America (@LNMBUSA) July 22, 2024
The Atlantic - that's funny...
— I_got_questions (@Igotquesti88413) July 22, 2024
According to The Atlantic? pic.twitter.com/BM0iCFRRwr
— Hummingbirder 🇺🇸🏈🌰🐊 (@Humming_birder) July 22, 2024
No they're not. Stop lying
— Devil's Advocate (@viewedDifferent) July 22, 2024
Keep telling yourself this
— Jerry Oaksmith - AKA - Unplug_Dad (@JerryOaksmith) July 22, 2024
Why? If Harris is the nominee (which would be a coup; let's not kid ourselves) then she has to debate Trump. Good luck with that.
— JustNancy (@nancy_incognito) July 22, 2024
Will there even be a vice-presidential debate? Trump was 100 percent right — the Democrats have no idea who's going to be running for vice president on their side.
By the way, here's the scene in Vance's hometown of Middletown, Ohio, in advance of his solo campaign rally there:
Large crowd out in Middletown, Ohio for a rally with JD Vance in his hometown today, Vance’s first solo rally since becoming Trump’s vice presidential running mate pic.twitter.com/Ij0bwyKFAn
— Brendan Gutenschwager (@BGOnTheScene) July 22, 2024
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