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Losing to Kamala Harris Makes Trump Crazier, and Being Crazy Makes Him Lose

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Julian Zelizer says the Democratic Party's nomination switch from Joe Biden to Kamala Harris has been to unify and reenergize the party’s base.

He says the move has set off a secondary effect of destabilizing the Republican campaign by rattling Donald Trump .

Zelizer : Trump 's campaign brain trust is begging its candidate to focus on this message.

Trump has been consumed by a mix of envy at Harris 's popularity and grievance at his own displacement.

The advisers inevitably agonize over his failure to listen to reason but never seem to question their own underlying goal of handing the world’s most powerful job to a madman. The old Trump strategy for defeating Biden seems to have depended on maintaining a lead. When Trump was ahead, he was capable of making rational choices that allowed him to maintain his lead. Now that his lead is gone, so is his willingness to do the things that enable him to win. Losing campaigns often identify their failures and make a course correction. Trump ’s campaign is instead spiraling into a mental breakdown..

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60

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57

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15

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informal

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English

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49

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