Trump can’t help himself. Will that help him win?

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Trump can’t help himself. Will that help him win?

By Jess Bidgood

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President Biden is maintaining his public defiance as more Democratic lawmakers call for him to exit the presidential race.

A call with Vice President Kamala Harris struggled to reassure major donors that there was little to worry about.

More than 25 million people watched former President Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention.

It was all going so well.

The delegates in front of former President Trump were euphoric. The fake White House gleamed behind him. Everyone there, from the show runners to Hulk Hogan to Melania Trump, had nailed their role in a glitzy production aimed at returning Trump to the real Oval Office.

Well, almost everyone.

“I’d better finish strong,” Trump said, nearly 45 minutes into his acceptance speech. “Otherwise, we’ll blow it, and we can’t let that happen.”

More than forty-six minutes later, when he finally finished a winding speech that grew heavy with grievance, it was clear that the person most likely to stop him from becoming the 47th president, the person most likely to blow it, was Trump himself. He couldn’t help it.

Until then, the four-day spectacle that unfolded in Milwaukee had been a smooth celebration of the rise and astonishingly good luck of a former president who has consolidated the support of his party. But now, with the balloons popped and the T-R-U-M-P lights turned off, Trump has shown Republicans that he might be unable to seize fully the opportunity that has been laid out in front of him.

The New York Times

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