Susan Glasser: “There is no one, with the possible exception of the President himself, who has mourned the end of Joe Biden’s re-election campaign more than Donald Trump.”
“For eighteen days, Trump has refused to let go of his grief, alternating between anger and denial at the loss of his favorite target. On Tuesday, apparently freaked out by Kamala Harris’s rise in the polls and her decision that morning to name Tim Walz, a popular Midwestern governor, as her running mate, Trump, ensconced in his Mar-a-Lago resort, all but demanded that Biden return to the race.”
“In a bizarre social-media post, the ex-President advanced the theory that Biden was so upset about his ‘historically tragic mistake’ to step aside that he might crash the Democratic National Convention later this month and try to take back the nomination. Talk about wish-casting.”
“Apparently no one mentioned to Trump that Harris had, as of Monday night, already locked up the Democratic nod in a virtual roll-call vote of Party delegates. Of course, the point was not plausibility; Trump’s post was better read as a cry for help. He liked the 2024 election a lot more when he was sure he was going to win it.”
