Oh, Kellyanne! How we've missed you. (Not)
He ain't listening.
from Washington Post:
Republicans practically beg Trump to change it up. He’s not listening.
Calls for more policy, less crowd-size talk and fewer insults have gone unheeded. Trump has signaled he won’t change — or can’t.
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway offered a recipe this week for Trump’s struggling 2024 campaign: “The winning formula for President Trump is very plain to see: It’s fewer insults, more insights and [a] policy contrast.”
Fellow former Trump adviser Peter Navarro echoed that. “When Trump attacks [Vice President Kamala] Harris personally rather than on policy, Harris’s support among swing voters rises — particularly among women,” Navarro said.
Trump is not listening.
At a rally Wednesday in Asheville, N.C., Trump called Harris “crazy,” “stupid” and a “lunatic,” adding that “she’s not smart, she’s not intelligent.” He repeatedly derided her laugh, including saying that it’s “career-threatening. That’s a laugh of a person with some big problems.”
And while the event was billed as a speech on economic policy, Trump made clear that wasn’t really his preferred topic.
“They wanted to do a speech on the economy,” Trump said, suggesting this wasn’t his idea and adding: “Today we’re going to talk about one subject. And then we’ll start going back to the other, because we sort of love that.”