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Now Trump’s Considering Backing Out of the Debate Again.

It feels like his campaign is not recovering.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readAug 26, 2024
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Well, suffice it to say that things for Donald Trump aren’t going well. Frankly, they haven’t been going well since the end of the Republican convention, when shortly afterwards President Joe Biden announced he would no longer be campaigning and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris instead.

You can almost envision Trump when the news breaks, absolutely fuming and venting his frustrations to his campaign staff about the fact that they didn’t announce it during the convention where he would have been able to address it on arguably the largest stage he would have for the rest of the campaign.

But here we are, with Trump spending the past few weeks in desperate attempts to throw something at the wall that might have some chance of sticking. So far, nothing is, and it feels as though that daunting reality has sucked the life out of his campaign.

I suppose with all that being said, Trump is now once again considering if he should drop out of the debate again.

Marianne LeVine with The Washington Post writes:

“Former president Donald Trump suggested Sunday evening that he might skip a Sept. 10 ABC News debate with Vice President Kamala Harris (D), after…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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