The Many Ways Trump Likely Lost The Election With His MSG Rally
Trump did a rally in Madison Square Garden seemingly for his own ego, but the result likely cost him the election.
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The Total Stupidity Of Holding A Rally In Madison Square Garden
A basic fact. New York is not a swing state. New York will not be hotly contested. Many of the House races that flipped to Republicans are expected to flip back to Democrats, because Democrats in the state aren’t distracted by a redistricting fight in 2024.
There was no good reason for Donald Trump to waste a day of campaigning holding a rally in New York City. It was a bad idea politically and a waste of precious campaign time. If you have ever run for office, or worked on a campaign, you already know that the most precious resource that a campaign has is time.
The idea of holding a rally in New York City seems to come from Trump’s delusion that he can win the popular vote along with wanting to prove his hometown wrong. There is a sense that the idea for this rally first came along when Trump was running against Joe Biden and thought that he had the election won.
It was the ultimate victory lap move.
If a candidate is going to hold a rally in the media epicenter of the country, they better hold the right kind of rally.
Donald Trump has ripped off every piece of imagery from Ronald Reagan’s campaigns that wasn’t nailed down.
The on thing he doesn’t have is patriotism, so instead of holding a red, white, and blue rally, no matter how hypocritical it would seem for a guy who just called the country a garbage can to be doing so, it would have been the smart and safe thing to do.
Trump is not smart, so he filled his rally with the worst of MAGA, from the racists, to the sexists, to the wannabe oligarchs, the ex-president put every ugly bit of MAGA in the corporate media’s backyard, and they noticed.
If this rally would have been in Chicago or Los Angeles, the racism of MAGA that everyone who follows Trump already knows about might not have gotten so much attention.
To hold such a rally when the corporate media was paying attention, was an intentional act of complete stupidity.
It also likely cost Trump votes.
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