Trump 'will get crazier' as his lead evaporates — and do anything for attention: Buttigieg

Former President Donald Trump is only going to turn up the insanity the more he perceives he's losing his lead in the election, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said on MSNBC Wednesday evening.

This comes after Trump held an explosive question-and-answer session with the National Association of Black Journalists, where he caused an uproar by proclaiming that Vice President Kamala Harris only recently decided she was Black.

This, warned Buttigieg, is only the beginning.

"When you look at the state of the race today ... what do you think Trump's going to do next?" asked "Deadline: White House" anchor Nicolle Wallace. "Because he's — when he's desperate, and make no mistake, this, for him, candidacy is about staying out of jail. I mean, he's as desperate to win the presidency as Putin is to have him there, because for him, it's about Ukraine. I mean, what would you sort of warn your party and the pro-democracy coalition to be prepared for from Trump?"

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Buttigieg had a simple response: "I think precisely because it's going so well for Kamala Harris out of the gate, I expect that Trump and his Republican Party will get crazier ... the more she pulls ahead, the more you're going to see I think Trump revert to the only thing he knows how to do when he wants to get attention, which is get more and more outrageous."

For the last several months, Trump has had a small but clear and durable lead in the national contest, with President Joe Biden mired in disapproval over questions about his fitness to run a campaign and serve another term — concerns which came to a head within his own party after a disastrous debate performance in June.

His exit, however, appears to have reset the race, with recent polling showing a close contest and Harris pulling even or ahead in many key battleground states.

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