Trump Has Never Been Weaker Than He Is Right Now

The lesson from the early months of 2024 is that Republicans are running a deteriorated poor copy of what used to be Donald Trump.

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Trump Is Weakness Disguised As Strength

Donald Trump wanted to blow out Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary in her home state of South Carolina. He predicted a 30-point win. Trump won by twenty points as roughly 40% of Republican voters in very conservative South Carolina voted against him.

Trump is running for the Republican nomination like he is an incumbent president, and the message from all of the states where he didn’t rig the process like in Nevada, has been that there are a substantial number of Republicans who will not support him in November.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) was asked on NBC’s Meet The Press if Democrats are underestimating Trump, and he answered:

Well, I think he's weakness masquerading as strength. I – I think he's more unhinged. He's more – he’s less interesting than he was even a few years ago. I mean, you've h…