Steve Benen predicts the future:
Polling suggests he’s falling behind Harris; the Democratic convention has gone quite well for the party thus far; and the GOP nominee is increasingly looking for an electoral life-preserver. As The New Republic’s Greg Sargent summarized, Trump genuinely seems to think that Harris’ surge in the polls “is somehow the result of him being constrained from going full gutter MAGA on her.”
All of which suggests the American electorate should expect to see the Republican take the presidential race in an even uglier direction over the next 10 or so weeks.
The MAGA-base may be energized by it, but the independents who haven’t figured out Trump, yet, will be asking: where’s the mature and sober discussion that leads into an American election?
They’ll be moved, but in the opposite direction.
