Trump is 'completely rattled' — and Democrats need to 'get on the offense': Analyst

Former President Donald Trump is self-destructing in the face of a tough election challenge that he wasn't expecting to take on, a former Joe Biden strategist told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday — and Democrats need to take advantage.

This comes as the former president makes up conspiracy theories that Harris' large crowd sizes at rallies are fake — something that, political advisor Ashley Etienne said, gives Democrats a major opening to flip the script.

"What do you make of how Trump reacts to this enthusiasm around the Harris campaign?" asked Blitzer.

"I mean, it's clear that Kamala Harris is getting under his skin," said Etienne. "It's clear that he is completely rattled, with no plan and no strategy on how to attack her. And, you know, and it makes a lot of sense. He's getting his butt kicked in the polls. I mean, there was a Financial Times poll that came out this weekend that said that more Americans trust her to manage the economy than Donald Trump. That's their number one attack line against Kamala Harris and her campaign, is that they've mismanaged — Biden and her [sic] mismanaged the economy. And to find out now in the polls that more people trust her than him, it's got to be unraveling them and completely finding him on his back heels."

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What Democrats need to do now, she continued, is to "get on the offense about this. These false claims are just bizarre. They're even beyond weird. They're just bizarre. And the fact that he could not come up with a coherent answer on a number of issues during his own press conference, we need to start making the point, asking the question, is Donald Trump okay? Is he all right? We should be questioning his mental faculties."

"You recall when he was in the White House, his Cabinet officials were talking about invoking the 25th Amendment because he wasn't all there, and to have your finger on the trigger was incredibly dangerous, and he's got that opportunity again now," Etienne added. "So if I'm the Democratic Party, I'm shifting gears and starting to make hay of all of the sort of bizarre claims and falsehoods from Donald Trump."

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