After a controversial week which saw him abruptly canceling one
public appearance after another, raising questions as to whether he’s
giving up as his campaign enters total freefall, has now canceled yet
another event. This time Trump is blowing off his scheduled rally in
Arizona, a traditionally red-leaning state where he’s in danger of
losing. This latest cancelation means that not only is Trump retreating
from the public campaign trail almost entirely, he’s doing so in such a
confusion fashion that his even his own campaign appears to be
confounded as to what’s going on.
The Donald Trump campaign
informed the media
this afternoon that his planned event on Wednesday in Phoenix had been
scuttled entirely. But this took place at the same time Trump himself
was tweeting
that he will indeed be in Phoenix on Wednesday, and that he’s moving
his event to a larger venue within the city. However this appears to be
mere bravado or delusion on his part, as the official schedule on his
website confirms that there is no longer any event in Arizona on
Wednesday. In fact his schedule reveals that he has basically no events
left at all.
Now that Trump has canceled his upcoming public events in Arizona,
Colorado, Oregon, and Nevada, his public schedule is so barren that he
literally has nothing left on it aside from one rally in Everett,
Washington this Tuesday. Even that event makes no strategic sense, as
Washington is a blue state where Trump has no chance of winning any
electoral votes, meaning he’s wasting his time and resources by visiting
there.
What makes the Washington rally stand out is that it’s the one left
on his schedule. In contrast, his running mate Mike Pence has half a
dozen upcoming public rallies listed on the same schedule. Notably,
three of Pence’s upcoming events are in Georgia, a red state where a
Republican should be winning easily, but the polls are tied – revealing
just how thoroughly the Trump campaign is having to play defense.
But the larger question is why Donald Trump is now vanishing from the
public campaign trail almost entirely. Is he sick? Is he merely sick of
losing? Perhaps he’s lost interest in holding public rallies in swing
states, where his crowd size has
been dwindling. Theo only places he can reliably still draw a crowd are in the reddest of states.
As Donald Trump continues to retreat from the public eye
without explanation in chaotic fashion, scheduling events and then
canceling them at the last minute and then in some instances claiming he
didn’t actually cancel them, it begs the question of whether he’s given
up or lost interest entirely. Maybe there really is something secretly
wrong with him. Or maybe he’s simply realized he’s going to lose, and
he’s using the remainder of the election to set up his upcoming
media venture.
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