'Rattled' Trump allies now 'doubting themselves' after series of brutal missteps: analyst

The previously disciplined Donald Trump campaign is showing increasingly public signs of unraveling as questions are raised about attack lines on Vice President Kamala Harris, Sen. J.D. Vance's stumbling introduction to the public and Project 2025 getting tossed under the bus by the former president himself.

That is the opinion of MSNBC analyst Zeeshan Aleem who noted that disagreements within Trump's tightly-knit inner circle rarely are scrutinized in real-time but now are bubbling up in reports about campaign chaos.

Aleem noted the Democratic Party appeared to be "sleepwalking" to disaster up until the moment when President Joe Biden stepped aside for Harris, who has since turned Trumpworld upside down.

"Former President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are backpedaling and publicly doubting themselves. For a movement that thrives off controversy and a never-apologize ethos, it’s unusual to see its members so visibly on their back foot," the analyst wrote, before adding there appears to be evidence they know they need to alter their approach since the electoral ground shifted beneath them.

Beyond the problem brought about by the highly criticized Project 2025 blueprint for a new Trump administration has been Ohio Republican Vance's selection as VP, which has made "weird" a central talking point for critics alarmed by his past opinions, including an interview in which he said "childless cat ladies" had too much influence in the Democratic Party.

"Many on the right also have been thoroughly rattled by Democrats’ new favorite label for them: 'weird,'" Aleem pointed out before suggesting, "Instead of ignoring the issue, Republicans have responded to 'weird' with the kind of annoyance that one exhibits when sensing an accuser has tapped into something with a kernel of truth."

Adding that Trump's racist attacks on Harris, which have many senior Republicans cringing, are not playing well with independent voters, Aleem stated a campaign reset may be in order.

"This rare moment of GOP defensiveness may not last long. But for the time being, it suggests a hint of anxiety about how the party presents itself just a few months until Election Day," he wrote."Yet there’s less than 100 days to go. For Republicans hoping to find the right attacks against Harris, time is running out."

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