Is Trump Losing?

WSJ Opinion: Free Expression

Gerard Baker, Editor at Large, The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

With days to go before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the spotlight is shining brightly on Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, as they continue to enjoy a largely substance-free campaign honeymoon, with the sizable help of the media. Meanwhile, cracks in the once-confident campaign of Donald Trump are beginning to show. The former president has spent much of the last few weeks in the fever swamps of conspiracy theory and grievance and Harris seems to have edged ahead in the polls. But with her history of espousing left wing causes and the Biden administration’s uninspiring record, there is no shortage of targets for the GOP to take aim at. Can Trump exercise the self-discipline to take advantage? On this episode of the Free Expression podcast, RNC co-chair Lara Trump tells Gerry Baker about how the former president can seize back the initiative from the Democrats, how he can sometimes be “authentic to a fault” with voters and why JD Vance represents the future of the movement Donald Trump started. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.
0:24.4	Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the opinion page of the Wall Street Journal.
0:28.0	I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large, the journal.
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0:35.7	This week is Trump in trouble. We're now three
0:38.4	weeks into the frenzy of excitement generated by Democrats and their friends in the media about
0:42.9	Kamala Harris. And it shows no sign of stopping. Last week, she announced Governor Tim Walz
0:47.8	of Minnesota as her vice presidential pick and next week she'll be fated at the Democratic
0:52.6	Convention in Chicago. All this and a collective
0:56.0	rewriting of Harris's personal history, as a very left-wing progressive, along with an imposed
1:01.2	amnesia about the fact that she's been serving in President Joe Biden's administration for
1:05.7	the last four years. All this has had a predictable effect on the polling numbers. Harris now leads
1:10.6	Donald Trump by a narrow margin in most of the polling averages and is outperforming
1:15.4	Joe Biden strongly in the key swing states.
1:18.3	Meanwhile, Trump himself doesn't seem to be helping matters.
1:21.4	He spent much of the last few weeks pursuing what can best be described as some of his
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