Meanwhile, Harris has aggresively hit the campaign trail, hoping to fire up voters in battleground states across the country
On Thursday, former president Donald Trump attempted to — yet again — recalibrate his campaign, this time with a press conference at his property in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The appearance at his beloved golf course comes exactly one week after Trump tried to put the spotlight back on himself amid Vice President Kamala Harris’s surging poll numbers, with a press conference at his Florida home of Mar-a-Lago. He used the event to grumble over crowd sizes, at one point stating incorrectly that his speech before the January 6 riot at the Capitol had more attendees than Martin Luther King’s 1963 March on Washington.
It’s noteworthy that both of these “press conferences” happened at his own properties — the safest of spaces for the former president.
I think it’s more likely that he’s reliving a moment where all attention was on him.
I saw this take in that thread too, and I have to say it seems to be the more plausible of the two. Someone told him that he was basically guaranteed the presidency in that moment, and now it’s all slipping away from him. He’s trying to go back to the moment where he was sure he’d won.
Of course, it could also be trauma. Who can say? If he even knows for sure (and I personally doubt if he has that level of self awareness), he’ll take it to his grave.