Trump’s public reaction was to claim I’d be easier to defeat than Biden because I was even further to the left—a “dangerous San Francisco radical.” But reports from inside his campaign revealed dismay. Later that day, Trump whined on Truth Social: “They also mislead [sic] the Republican Party, causing it to waste a great deal of time and money” on political advertising targeting a candidate who was no longer his opponent. After the debate, after the assassination attempt, the Republicans had believed they were on a glide path. Now a boulder had rolled onto the runway, and they had to
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