Former Donald Trump adviser and short-lived communications director Anthony Scaramucci sees a vast difference between the Trump he saw in 2016 and the one he sees now.
Scaramucci, who has spent time knocking doors of Republicans with Trump lawn signs and begging homeowners to reconsider their votes, said he's noticed the former Trump seemed low energy this weekend.
"Listen, he's working, but he's not working at the pace that he worked in 2016 or 2020," Scaramucci told MSNBC on Monday.
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"You probably caught some hoarseness in his voice yesterday," he said of a Trump rally in North Carolina. "He even admitted he had a sore throat when he was sort of manipulating the microphone, let's just put it that way," he said referring to a Friday appearance at which Trump apparently simulated a sex act.
"That was the weirdest thing I've seen him do in a very long time."
When Trump's final schedule was released last week, questions were raised about why he would have four events in typically red North Carolina. The move led political analysts and observers to wonder if the internal campaign numbers suggested that Trump was at risk of losing the state.
MSNBC played several clips of Trump in the closing days of his 2016 campaign, and him now. The difference was stark.
"He's also tired, and I think he's very disgruntled and things haven't gone the way he was expecting. I think if Joe Biden was still in the race, he was sort of expecting that," said Scaramucci. "
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