Next Vice President After Kamala Harris’s historic speech at the Democratic National Convention, Donald Trump has gone into a public meltdown on live television, and the story has continued for weeks. The wave of enthusiasm surrounding Harris is narrowing the margin in key swing states, outperforming fundraising, and drawing huge crowds and stunning viewership. Harris is getting under Trump’s skin.
Rather than focusing its spending and energy on key sectors and demographics, the Trump campaign appears to be spending its resources instead on reassuring the former president that all is well.
According to a report Tuesday from The Bulwark,, The Trump campaign will air a series of television ads around Mar-a-Lago next week. While Palm Beach County leans Democratic, Florida is a safe Republican state — and the ads are less about wooing voters than about pampering a wealthy resident and donor who frequents the former president’s club.
“It’s more about pleasing the donors than the president. There are a lot of donors in Palm Beach,” a campaign insider told The Bulwark. “If we spend $50,000 and get $5 million, that’s a good return on investment. And if it makes the president happy, that’s good.”
Keeping the president happy has been a central issue in Trump’s campaign over the past few weeks. On Saturday, Washington Post The former president’s aides were reportedly deliberately trying to engineer distractions for an increasingly angry and sullen Trump. Aides testified anonymously that they scheduled a series of campaign events to keep Trump from retreating to his safe space — the golf course — and allow Harris to dominate the spotlight after the Democratic National Convention.
It doesn't help that amid the political turmoil caused by President Joe Biden's exit from the race and Kamala Harris's rise to the nomination, Trump survived an assassination attempt that some in his circle say left him in shock.
“He was watching the seven-second video of how close he came to being shot in the head — over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign. Vanity Fair Last week. Another added that the former president “might actually have PTSD.”
As the race heats up and November approaches, self-sabotage—whether intentional or not—has become a major concern for the Trump campaign. While a few ads in Palm Beach may provide a temporary emotional salve for Trump, they won’t do much to win him back to the White House.
