The Real “Fake Election”
The Republican vision of a Trump “landslide.”
Remember the “red wave” of the 2022 election?
Here we go again.
As the gavel calls to order the assembled delegates to the Republican National Convention this week in Milwaukee, the Trump campaign organizers are touting a “landslide” in November. According to Atlantic reporter Tim Alberta, Susie Wiles, Trump Campaign Communications Director and co-chair of the 2024 Re-elect Donald Trump campaign and her cohort, Chris LaCivita, have a compelling campaign story to share. (1)
The story begins with the Republican “age echo chamber positioning” of their opponent — not he who looks older or stumbles more (their client’s stumbling/gaffe numbers are approximately the same) but he who looks weaker:
One of the two principals tasked with returning Trump to the White House, LaCivita had long conceived of the 2024 race as a contest that would be “extraordinarily visual” — namely, a contrast of strength versus weakness. Trump, whatever his countless liabilities as a candidate, would be cast as the dauntless and forceful alpha, while Biden would be painted as the pitiable old heel, less a bad guy than the butt of a very bad joke, America’s lovable but lethargic uncle who needed, at long last, to be put to bed.
