7/1/2023 0 Comments Trump speech central time![]() Trump smartly picked up on the public’s latent-and then not-so-latent-discontent with the border criss, the economic disparities incumbent with globalization, the rampant drug addiction crisis in this country. If you strip away his crude mannerism and crash rhetoric, his agenda as President actually gave conservatives a whole lot of the wishlist that’s been incomplete since the Reagan era. Trump has a rich reservoir of material to mine, to be sure. His boasts about being called “your excellency” now just seem sad. But mentions of Hunter Biden’s errant laptop seemed to land with a thud, and members of the audience seemed to go numb when “Crooked Hillary” Clinton came up in remarks that seemed like a time capsule from six years ago. Sure, Trump can still butcher political red meat with the best of them he can slag his foes without a flinch, call the modern Democratic Party a tribe of socialists, Marxists, and communists, and disparage Black Lives Matter demonstrators as criminals. Trump may want to campaign as a traditional candidate with the universal support befitting a former President, but that isn’t his core competency, and he seems to lack the requisite skills to keep his ship afloat as some two dozen would-be pirates are on the docks and considering their own next steps.įor potential Trump challengers, Saturday’s showing should not have spooked anyone from the race. ![]() A meager 5% of Americans said they don’t have an opinion about the only President who was impeached twice and whose actions in the wake of the 2020 election led to a deadly attack on the Capitol, according to the latest CNN poll. ![]() The image of Trump is pretty well baked at this point. Yet Trump isn’t starting as a blank-slate national candidate. “Together we will complete the unfinished business of making America great again,” Trump said in Columbia, S.C. As political events go, they were fairly routine and expected steps for presidential hopefuls. He then jetted to South Carolina, where he unfurled a pack of high-wattage supporters at the state capitol. Trump on Saturday dropped into New Hampshire to speak to the state party’s annual meeting, where he picked up the backing of the party chair who ended his term on Saturday. Maybe, but words-even hyper-exaggerated and errant ones-aren’t deeds.
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