Axios: Trump Advisors “Deeply Rattled” By Meltdowns

Axios reports:

Don’t buy the public bravado. President Trump’s advisers are deeply rattled by his meandering, mean and often middling public performances since the failed assassination attempt. They’re pleading with him to adopt a new “hard-hitting” stump speech to define Vice President Harris as liberal and weak, advisers tell us. And praying he’ll stop the recidivistic pull to simply improvise haphazardly.

Trump, who looked and felt like a clear front-runner heading into last month’s convention, has fumed, stewed and stumbled in private and public ever since. Republican sources close to Trump tell us he realizes he needs to bring new focus to a message that can be meandering and self-indulgent. But it’s Trump. So a new script is often fictional wishfulness. Trump “is struggling to get past his anger,” a top Republican source tells us.

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— Axios (@axios) August 11, 2024