Even with campaign aides and fellow Republicans advising him to stick to issues and focus his campaign instead of insulting groups of American voters, Donald Trump is unable to do so. Donald Trump can't not be Donald Trump. Angela Rye, CEO of Impact Strategies, and Charlie Sykes, co-founder of The Bulwark discuss with Alex Wagner.
This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 15 episode of 'Alex Wagner Tonight.' On Thursday, Donald Trump held a news conference at his New Jersey golf club. The event was somewhat of a do-over for Trump's 90-minute rambling speech in North Carolina on Wednesday, where he was supposed to tout his economic proposals. The campaign did its best to set the scene — laying out a spread of groceries and posters claiming to show the “Price Increases since Kamala Harris took office.
It wasn’t as much a news conference as it was a rambling stream of grievances, insults, fabrications and gibberish. And that’s pretty much all we’ve gotten from Trump over the last few weeks. I don’t see any indication that’s going to change. The campaign is trying desperately to make him talk about the economy but Trump just can’t bring himself to do it.
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