Donald Trump has lost his mojo, according to a longtime conservative critic, and that has put his campaign in a death spiral.
The former president has seemed off balance and less sure of himself since Kamala Harris took over the Democratic presidential campaign from Joe Biden, and former George W. Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner told CNN that this newly diminished Trump can't deal with the vice president's success.
"In the blink of an eye that the whole lighting and landscape of this campaign changed, and Trump's show, which has been getting old, it seemed to have crossed a threshold of a certain kind, even some of his allies, Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan are saying, saying the same thing – they're saying he's boring," Wehner said. "That's one line of criticism for Donald Trump, that'll drive him crazy."
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That could be a "political death sentence" for the 78-year-old former president, said CNN's Kasie Hunt, and Wehner agreed.
"It is for Donald Trump," Wehner said. "I mean, it's not good for anybody, but particularly for him, and I'd say, in part, it's because of his psychology. The central thing to understand about Donald Trump, and I thought this even in early 2016, was I use [the term] psychologically unwell man. He's a broken person, narcissistic personality disorder, and people of that psychology, there are certain lines of attack, certain things that happened to them that really do rattle them that knock them off stride, and there are several things for Trump. One of them is mockery, another is the sense that he might be a loser, and I think once Harris got in the race and eliminated the [polling] deficit, he got so rattled by that that he's never gotten on not on track again. His campaign can't get him there."
Now that he's lost his aura, Wehner said, Trump's weaknesses and pathologies stand out more sharply.
"I mean, obviously with the base of the Republican Party, he has been a rock star – witness the fact that he lost in 2020 and they brought him back, where most candidates would, you know, exit the stage," Wehner said. "So there are two groups. Think about one is the base of his party, which is still with him, but it's beginning to shake a little. But the swing voters who are going to decide this election, who voted for him in 2016 left him in 2020, that's the group that he has to get, and when you become not only the Fat Elvis version, boring, but also psychotic, that is just pushing them away, and we're seeing that in in the polls."
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