Veteran GOP operative explains why Trump’s attacks aren’t landing anymore in brutal takedown

22 August 2024

Although Donald Trump has been relentless in his attacks on 2024 Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, countless national and battleground state polls are showing a very close race. Harris, according to many polls, is quite competitive in key swing states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona.

In a scathing August 22 post on X, formerly Twitter, Never Trump conservative David Frum lays out some reasons why Trump's attacks aren't having a greater impact.

The journalist and former George W. Bush speechwriter tweets, "Why don't Republican negative points vs Harris-Walz - some of them even approximately true! - do more damage? The problem Republicans have is that every election is a compare and contrast."

Frum laments that Republicans "overwhelmingly renominated a candidate who.... entered politics by propagandizing a defamatory 'birther' conspiracy theory that was not only steeped in racism but also obviously crazy and stupid." And the Never Trumper goes on to list other reasons he believes the GOP made a huge mistake by giving Trump their presidential nomination for the third time in a row.

Trump, Frum notes, "accepted the help of Russian spy agencies to win the presidency in 2016" and "directed tens of millions of taxpayer and foreign government $ to his own businesses."

On top of those things, the former Bush speechwriter adds, Trump "ordered a religious test on immigrants and visitors to the United States" and "tried (and failed) to overturn healthcare coverage for Americans with no alternative to offer - but succeeded in overturning abortion rights for Americans."

Frum points out that Trump "tried to win the 2020 election by an elaborate scheme to deny ballots to Democratic voters" and "encouraged supporters to intimidate election workers who wouldn't comply with his schemes" before he "turned to outright violence on January 6, 2021."

"Politics aside," Frum comments, "the nominee is also a draft-dodger…. In that environment, it's tough to get a hearing for negatives about a nominee's opponents."

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