Donald Trump's problem is himself

Since Election Night 2020, Donald Trump has insisted that he won re-election. I think he believes that. The problem is that the ballots tell a different story. In battleground state after battleground state, Trump ran behind the rest of the GOP ticket. That's on top of new battleground polling, which I wrote about in this post.

In that polling, Biden defeats Trump in Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania by 2 points, 3 points and 3 points respectively. By contrast, DeSantis defeats Biden by 6 points in Arizona, 3 points in Georgia and 3 points in Pennsylvania.

For all of Trump's talk about being a winner, the truth is that he's a loser. He's won 1 race, in 2016. After that, he's lost. In 2018, Trump lost the suburbs. For instance, a "USA TODAY analysis of midterm election returns across the nation found more than 80 suburban counties and cities, with high incomes and a large number of college-educated voters, voted more Democratic compared to 2016." That's bad enough. This is far worse:

The majority of the areas showed single-digit-percentage-point increases for Democrats, but more than 20 witnessed a double-digit swing, sometimes turning red counties blue. Cobb County outside Atlanta, for instance, saw 53 percent of their voters go for Democrats, up from 39 percent in 2016.
Trump's problem is that he hasn't adjusted to what's happening in 2024. While the economy is still important, it isn't more important to parents than their children's declining math and reading scores. On the issue of education, Trump gets blasted by DeSantis and Democrats while DeSantis blows Democrats away.

Further, I don't want to read another column about Trump's inevitability for the nomination. The nomination means nothing if the GOP doesn't defeat Biden.

The other thing that will hurt Trump in the suburbs is how quickly he's willing to turn on former members of his administration. How will people react when Trump blasts someone as professional as Kayleigh McEnany? S.E. Cupp is a libertarian who worked briefly with McEnany at CNN. Here's what she said about Kayleigh:

Look what happened to Trump when Bret Baier interviewed him:

Is that the best candidate on the GOP side? God help us if it is. Compare Trump's stupidity with Bret Baier with Gov. DeSantis ripping Trump on COVID:

I can't trust the things that Trump says because, with him, everything's the best. There's no humility with him, just humiliation.

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