The Big Lie failure
Vaughn Hillyard was on the trail with Kari Lake for over a year and saw more of her than any human should be required to see. He had this to say and I think it’s smart:
“When you look at the slate of election deniers she was the latest one to fall making it a clean sweep of those candidates and secretary of state candidates and now Donald Trump will try to run on the message that they lost on.”
If Trump seemed down last night it wasn’t about losing the election. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself. But it can’t have escaped him that his bedrock belief that the Big Lie was a super winning message failed miserably. In fact, it dragged down candidates all over the country,
Trump didn’t dwell on it last night, which suggests that he knows he has to pivot back to the issues and rhetoric that won him the election in 2016. But it hurts him to have to do that since his loss in 2020 was obviously psychically unbearable and he needs for people to believe it was stolen from him. He knows that repetition is the best way to ensure that happens and now he is restrained. I wonder if he can keep it up?