Is The Trump Campaign in Free-Fall?

This week’s cover of The New Yorker Magazine (picture above) may go down as the magazine’s most iconic covers if only because it perfectly captures what’s going on right now in the 2024 Presidential campaign.

Not only is the Harris-Walz ticket beginning to widen its lead in the polls, but every day it seems like another GOP operative or public figure is abandoning the Trump campaign. And Trump is making things worse by shifting his focus away from his usual complaints about the opposition, to making public statement about the inadequacy of his own campaign staff.

Until last night, when Ophrah showed up at the Chicago shindig and was greeted by an ovation which can only be described as virtually earth-shaking, I thought that the 2024 race might still be too close to call.

Okay, so the polls which had Trump slightly ahead a month ago, now have Harris in the lead, but it’s still only a gap of a couple of points. And even though Trump is now beginning to go after the Jewish vote (and campaign money) by making statements which come close to being overtly and consciously anti-Semitic (viz., last night’s rant about Pennsylvania Governor Shapiro,) his statement at his Wilkes-Barre campaign rally about the poll which chowed him with a likability score of 93 percent takes the cake.