Trump's House Of Cards Is Teetering Toward Collapse

Look a little deeper at what has happened since VP Harris became the presumptive Democratic nominee, and you will see that Trump's campaign has some real problems.

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Trump’s House Of Cards

To hear the corporate media tell the story, Donald Trump has never been more popular. They acknowledge that Kamala Harris has completely wiped out Trump’s lead, but they point to Trump’s approval and suggest that he is more popular than ever. They put in the small print below their claims of popularity that Donald Trump still has a negative net approval rating.

Donald Trump got shot at two weeks ago, and even an assassination attempt could not give him a positive approval rating. Trump picked his running mate, who has quickly turned into the least popular running mate choice in history. Trump held a convention, and viewership was down.

Yet, some in the corporate media have pushed the idea that Donald Trump is popular.

The truth is that Donald Trump remains very unpopular.

Trump is the same person who 57% of voters said that they wanted to drop out of the race.

Kamala Harris has been able to erase Donald Trump’s polling lead in less than a week for one reason. A majority of voters don’t like the ex-president or want him back in the White House.

Trump’s current candidacy was always a house of cards built on the theory that the 2024 election would be just like the 2016 election. As a non-incumbent, Trump thought that he could run as an angry outsider against an aging incumbent president.

In 2016 the Trump campaign successfully, with the media’s help, turned Hillary Clinton into the incumbent and made the election about Clinton. After Biden’s debate performance, the media was helping Trump do the same thing in 2024, but the reality has always been that this was Trump’s only certain path back to the White House.

The Trump candidacy has always been a house of cards, and we’ll talk below about why it is now teetering toward collapse.