Trump’s latest move could be the death knell for his own campaign

In so many fables and nursery rhymes, we’re warned about the dangers of hubris. It’s not clear if Trump was never told the story of the Tortoise and the Hare as a child or if he simply failed to heed its warning, but the result is plain. A recent gaffe on the campaign trail could be the final nail in the Trump campaign’s coffin, and hubris is completely to blame.

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Last week, at Univision’s town hall event in Florida, one former Republican gave Trump the opportunity to win back his vote. It seemed like an easy task: all Ramiro González wanted was for Trump to tell him that the events of January 6th were not something the former president stood behind or advocated for. He was instead faced with Trump’s typical blathering, ending in Trump calling January 6th a “day of love.”

Suffice it to say, he didn’t win back González’s vote. And now people are wondering just how big a part of Trump’s original base voters like González truly are.

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“It’s astonishing to me just how bad that answer was,” TikToker Isaiah Martin explains in a recent post. “This guy is a Republican. He literally just asked him,…’I’m not cool with you on these particular issues, I want to give you an opportunity to earn my vote.’ And Trump just doubled down.”

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“That’s why people in his own party are leaving him in record numbers. [Trump] is not capable of speaking outside of Republican spaces,” Martin continues. “If it’s not some crazy Fox News host…he can’t communicate.”

Period! We don’t know if it will be enough to lose him this election, but if common sense prevails, it will play a large role in his defeat.

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