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One-time Republican strategist Matthew Dowd, who worked on the successful 2004 campaign to reelect former President George W. Bush, said that former President Donald Trump has his work cut out for him over the next several weeks.

Appearing on MSNBC, Dowd said that Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign appears to be far more organized at this stage of the 2024 presidential race, especially in the realm of message discipline.

Reacting to Donald Trump adding more rallies to his campaign schedule as he falls behind in the polls in swing states, MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard suggested it is up in the air whether local GOP candidates will want to be seen with him.

After host Ana Cabrera shared new polling showing Trump in a downward spiral since May in seven key states both he and Vice President Kamala Harris will need to win in November, Hillyard suggested down-ticket Democrats ought be happy about the turnaround and Republicans less so.

"He added a campaign event in Montana last Friday night," Hillyard began before adding, "That is where today it is notable he is going to Asheboro, North Carolina, for a campaign rally and on Saturday, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania."

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"You look at those seven states," he continued. "The Trump campaign had been talking about New Hampshire being in play, Virginia being in play, and this is the difficult part for a campaign less than three months out. Suddenly you're working with upwards of nine potentially battleground states, and you have to pick not only where you spend your time but also spend your resources."

"And when you compare it to the Democratic side with their ticket appearing with down-ballot candidates, there are the Senate candidates," he elaborated. "Within North Carolina, there's gubernatorial candidate who right now who has lower polling numbers than Donald Trump. There's a lot that is taking place within the Republican party about Donald Trump's use of time and where he's appearing but also the extent to which he appears or does not appear with some of these down ballot candidates in the extent like Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick."

"Will we see him on Saturday, alongside Donald Trump on stage?" he asked. "There's a lot that the Trump campaign is going through."

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Without President Biden in the race, more attention is being paid to Donald Trump's age and how tired he appears.

MSNBC political analyst and Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa made the observation Wednesday when speaking to MSNBC's Ana Cabrera. The host observed Trump keeps mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name, and Hinojosa thinks it's all about "trying to get attention."

Republican pollster Frank Luntz on Wednesday marveled at just how much the 2024 presidential race has changed within the last month.

During an appearance on CNBC, Luntz said that he believed Vice President Kamala Harris would win the election if it were held today, and he said that could have big impacts on down-ballot races as well.

After MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski read off a "laundry list of increasingly bizarre claims" made by Donald Trump and compiled by the Washington Post, her "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough dropped the hammer on the nation's media for refusing to seriously report on the former president's decline.

After his co-host concluded, he began, "Yesterday, Jonathan Chait wrote a column in New York Magazine and talked about the real media bias, and it's not on the left against the right, against Donald Trump. That in fact it is the mainstream media desperate to just keep — keep this narrative going that this is an election just like any other, that, you know, acting like it's [Bill] Clinton versus [Bob] Dole in 1996, ignoring those extraordinarily bizarre claims that would be disqualifying."

During an MSNBC "Morning Joe" panel on traditionally conservative states suddenly coming into play on November's election, commentator Mike Barnicle noted the startling "sea change" that occurred when Vice President Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic presidential ticket and predicted another is in the offing.

Speaking with the hosts, Barnicle explained he sees Donald Trump poised to meltdown even further if he has a bad debate performance next month which, in turn, will cripple his re-election hopes even more.

"The sea change in American politics over just the past few weeks has been astounding," he began. "President Biden was supposed to be on the ballot three or four weeks ago, and all the numbers in every state were going the wrong way. Now it's completely flip-flopped, including North Carolina, which is now in contention."

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He then added, "And I would submit there's one other element to be added to this conversation. I think there's going to be another sea change after the first debate that occurs between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris."

"When a Black woman in the ring cuffs him around, which she will, I think he will go bananas in public and that will change everything," he predicted.

MSNBC host, the Rev. Al Sharpton contributed, "I agree with you. I think that the fact that this Black woman is going to be standing there equal to him is already unnerving him. For her to be able to prosecute the case when a few days later he has to go to a sentencing for his 34 felonies, I think he's at edge."

"People don't understand that not only has he naturally lost it. The man is looking at a sentencing date," he added.

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During an appearance on MSNBC's "Way Too Early," the New York Times' Peter Baker suggested Donald Trump is still having a great deal of difficulty coming to terms with the notion that he could lose in November to Vice President Kamala Harris.

Baker claims that the former president's recent actions demonstrate he is losing his grip.

Brought on by host Jonathan Lemire to discuss a warning from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that Trump will never accept losing to Harris and will create more chaos, Baker said that goes hand-in-hand with the some of Trump's latest conspiracy stories.

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With Lemire prompting him with, "It seems like he's already preparing for another big lie," Baker replied, "Yeah, he seems increasingly detached from reality and yet there may be strategy behind it. The idea he is trying to once again convince his voters that something untoward happened in order to explain a defeat and that's something, of course, he cannot accept."

"He cannot accept the idea that anybody could possibly beat him, especially, I think, Kamala Harris, and so he has to find a way to explain it," he continued. "He started this in 2020, let's remember, not after the election when his results came back in but actually in May of 2020 he began telling people any results other than his victory would be a sign of a rigged election — it would be a cheat, in other words."

"This is his pattern going back years and years and years." he elaborated. "He's never lost a contest that he acknowledged that he lost. He constantly comes up with conspiracy theories and made-up versions of reality, and what he's doing here clearly is laying the groundwork."

"It actually suggests that he's feeling the heat and he's feeling, you know, that he may not be able to pull this off in November," he warned.

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