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Why Trump Can’t Win.

Mike Weisser
3 min readAug 7, 2024

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Yesterday my eagle-eyed lawyer sister sent me the ActBlue hourly revenue feed which showed that in the exact hour when Kamala and Tim were holding their first joint appearance in Philadelphia, the donation was somewhere around $4.5 million.

She also sent me the pic which I have posted above, which is actually two pics, the one on the right being the Harris-Walz rally in Philly, the pic on the left being Trump’s rally in the same location two weeks ago.

Notice how many seats in the upper level at the Trump rally were filled? Try none.

What’s going on right now as we head into the last 90 days of the 2024 campaign, is a combination of two factors which didn’t exist when Joe was still a candidate for re-election this time around.

One factor is that the Democrats have not one but two new faces, both of whom are brining something different to the party because one is a woman who is also black, the other has a rhetorical style which is a perfect response to Donald Trump. I’m referring here to Walz’s comment about how Trump and Vance are ‘weird,’ which not only matches any of the insulting nicknames that Trump uses against all his political foes but may become the attack-line of the year.

What makes the freshness of Kamala and Walz so apparent however, is the degree to which Donald Trump is starting to become…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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