Many see Trump as the real cause of his campaign's woes

[left-of-center2012]

Numerous Republicans and Trump allies said Thursday that the personnel overhaul - demoting Brad Parscale and replacing him with Bill Stepien as campaign manager - does little to address the main problem facing the struggling Trump campaign: the president himself and his chronically self-destructive behavior. In Trump's orbit and Republican circles, there is growing unease and even panic over Trump's conduct as allies fret that the president, who lags behind presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in both public and private polling, is free-falling into a political abyss.

Even stalwarts are bewildered by what many view as his self-sabotaging actions, worried not only that he may lose in November but also that he will drag the rest of the party down with him. "The whole world has changed in the past six months, and I don't know if the president has caught up," said Amy Koch, a Republican and former majority leader of the Minnesota Senate. "His messaging is landing on deaf ears. He just doesn't seem to fully understand what people are talking about or worrying about."

The Trump administration so far has no clear national plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 134,000 in the United States. The president has continued to defend the Confederate flag - a symbol of slavery and racism to many Americans - and, in the wake of national protests over the death of an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis, played an actively divisive role, trafficking in racist and other offensive statements.

Replacing the campaign manager, Charlie Dent, a Republican former member of Congress from Pennsylvania said, is hardly what most Republicans care about. "It's all these other erratic and bizarre comments and behaviors that are causing the most heartburn for a lot of Republicans, by far," Dent said.
"I don't think any Republican member of Congress wants to stand up there and defend the Confederacy, which makes absolutely no sense, or go to war with Tony Fauci."

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Many-see-Trump-as-the-real-cause-of-his-15414364.php

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Ya think?

[SWBTATTReg]

2. I predict the rise of the Moron Party, a new offshoot of the republican party, the only ...

qualification to join the Moron Party is that you must come up w/ the most outrageous and ridiculous lie possible. A lot of the members of the Moronic Party have already aced it!

[Chainfire]

3. And yet, 40% of the nation think that he is incapable of error....

[LakeArenal]

4. Yeah. ... He's cooking his own goose.

[brush]

5. They can't fix him. It's been almost four years and they haven't...

been able to control his lying and absolute, moronic behavior. They have every right to be concerned.

They had their chance to get rid of him (Pence probably wouldn't be as far down the polls now), it's too late now. They'd better distance themselves while they can.