One month ago, former President Donald Trump seemed poised to retake the White House from an ailing President Joe Biden. Now that he’s falling behind Vice President Kamala Harris, people close to Trump’s campaign are complaining to Vanity Fair that the GOP nominee is only making matters worse. “It’s like he’s choosing to lose,” one of them vented.
After months and months of Trump being the favorite, and every news article making me more depressed, it’s really nice to see articles about him swirling the drain. You’re right, it’s not going to change anything for me, but actually having more than tiny crumbs of hope makes consuming stuff like this more desirable.
Harris had some mediocre polling today while Trump gained a little bit of ground. I hope she pulls ahead further after the DNC but the election is still on a razor’s edge.
It’s fun to read about Trump’s massive failures like NABJ and the Elon interview, but I just don’t want Harris supporters to get complacent. Trump may never have won in the first place if the NYT wasn’t giving everyone a false sense of security with their 90%+ projection of a Clinton win. I hope everyone remembers right up until election day that this is a close race that could go either way and it’s going to take everyone’s vote to make sure it happens.
My point exactly. Complacency is the death of progress and all that.
So, my reasoning is that I understand your point completely. You are not wrong for taking pleasure in his downfall.
My problem is that I know I can allow myself to be complacent. I am absolutely suceptible to thoughts like “It’s Saturday. Do I really need to work on my garden today?” I can easily see news like this turning into a little thought like “Nah, I don’t need to vote. Harris is surely going to win, I’ll just stay in and relax.”
Just my two cents. I want to feel like things are going to end if I don’t act for a few more months, then I’ll dig in to what I’ve missed.
I get you. One thing for me though is that I desperately want this to be a landslide. Another nail-biter election won’t be nearly as good for the country as a massive Harris win, so even if it’s a lock I’d be voting.