Subject: Re: What is Trump Doing?
First off, one thing to understand:
1. Nobody pays attention to the Presidential campaign until after Labor Day. It seems maddening now, but Trump is keeping his powder dry.

The risk with this is that early voting in Pennsylvania starts in September(!) and he runs the risk of voters having made up their minds already.

2. It's clear the campaign strategy for Harris is to keep her away from any situation where she has to speak extemporaneously. The reason is simple: she's horrible at it. For anyone reading this who wants to doubt that, you're deluding yourself. There is ample film of her rattling on about electric buses or Venn diagrams or cackling. The media is fully colluding with the democrats in this endeavor.

So what can Trump do? The media steadfastly refuses to ask Harris tough questions or to do any vetting. They've been bad with this for decades now - going all the way back to Obama - but this is the ultimate level of Praetorian Guard kind of stuff.

Trump and Vance are employing a 2-pronged strategy:
-Vance is traveling and holding rallies
-Trump is courting influencers and going to places Republicans don't go

Trump knows he's going to lose the black vote, for example. But he also knows that if is able to pick off 20% of the black vote he's the winner. So he's doing things like going to the journalism conference and other things. Vance, meanwhile is attacking the press for not doing its job.

This new level of media covering for a candidate is something we've never seen before. Even when Obama was a candidate they at least would ask him question, albeit softball ones. With Harris they won't even do that.

They're giving Harris all this empty runway and open skies to do whatever she wants leading up into the convention, when they should be doing everything they can to define her while her campaign is still being built.

Harris is more defined than you think she is. And even with zero major media hitting this, Walz is getting fried for a number of things. What a horrible pick he is.