Disgraced former White House adviser Peter Navarro called on Donald Trump to "reset" his presidential campaign after making the "catastrophic error" of debating President Joe Biden before he was officially the Democratic nominee.
In a rant on the War Room podcast on Monday, Navarro questioned whether Trump advisers were telling the former president that polls were sliding in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris.
"But you wonder what's going on now in Trump land, because obviously we need to go in a different direction," Navarro said. "It's yet to be seen what that direction is."
"But clearly, the last three weeks have been difficult, and the next week is likely to be difficult as the Democrats have their convention, because you always get a bump at conventions," he continued. "So that's kind of the bad news in the subtext for where we are right now."
Navarro argued that Trump's reelection would have been a "slam dunk" if Biden had not stepped aside.
"And there was a decision made to debate Biden prior to him being crowned the nominee," he explained. "And I'm sure there were good and bad pro and con reasons for that, but you can at least say in hindsight that that was a catastrophic error."
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The former Trump adviser suggested that the Trump campaign should have a "reset" and "do it quickly."
"It's simply a matter of deciding on a message, and to decide on the message, you have to decide on your ultimate strategy," he explained. "Is it personal attacks? Is it policy?"
