Donald Trump appears unable to just accept the brand new actuality of the presidential race, and Maggie Haberman provided her evaluation on CNN Wednesday.
“It’s like he’s attempting to will this into existence as if he’s attempting to get Joe Biden again within the race and attempt to run the race that he desires it to be,” Haberman advised CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
She urged the previous president behaved as he did in 2020, in the course of the pandemic, when he would deny the truth of what was occurring throughout the nation.
“We now have seen him do that earlier than when issues haven’t labored out the way in which he desires them to,” she stated. “That is what he did throughout COVID In 2020 when he would repeatedly discuss how nice the economic system it was … how unfair this all is. OK, nicely, now you’ve gotten a distinct future in entrance of you, and it’s a must to cope with that.”
She added, “He’s losing time.”
Trump has been on an erratic tear since President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid, opening the trail for Vice President Kamala Harris to turn into the Democratic nominee. Harris has seen a surge in recognition and attracted tens of millions in donations and large rally crowds within the weeks since, info which have reportedly thrown the Republican nominee off-kilter.
Trump has repeatedly insisted that Biden is in some way nonetheless within the race or intends to be. Within the quick aftermath of the president’s withdrawal announcement, Trump posted a sequence of unhinged rants suggesting Biden would get up and overlook it the subsequent day. “It’s not over!” he wrote.
He additionally floated a wild conspiracy idea final week that Biden would crash the Democratic Nationwide Conference later this month and attempt to take again the nomination.
And regardless of going through a brand new opponent, he continues to dedicate time to attacking Biden, calling his exit from the race a “coup.”
Haberman stated it’s clear to her that Trump is laying the groundwork to make use of the change of Democratic candidate to assert the election was unfair if he loses.
“He’s, you understand, working the soil,” she stated. “And now we have seen him do that earlier than, once more, you understand — man of few strikes — to say, these are all of the the reason why I misplaced if he does.”