‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said

Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris as he slips behind her in the polls.

The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump questioned Harris’s racial identity  at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”

New polls indicate Trump is slipping behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.

“This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico.

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      Well, they probably also realize that if it happens after he wins, and he can’t continue in office, then no couch in the country is safe.

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        he can’t continue in office

        Based on Reagan’s second term, nothing short of actually being dead would meet that criteria.

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    Headlines like this have existed for the entire time Trump has been in the political spotlight.

    Do not trust conservatives will see this and agree. Do not get complacent. Vote. Encourage friends and family to vote.

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      My concern with Harris running is all the positivity will get people complacent due to the polls.

      Polls don’t mean shit. Get out and vote. Tell everyone to go vote.

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    If he wins, his legal troubles go away. If he loses they come back with a vengeance.

    Looks like this weird old man is starting to get nervous and lash out.

    Please continue.

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    It’s rich that he is claiming she has a low IQ when he got gentlemen Cs while at Penn. One of his professors called him his worst student ever.

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      Also his obsession with those two cognitive tests he didn’t fail isn’t a great sign for his IQ either.

      Maybe I’m the dumb one, but a “cognition test” sounds to me like something they do after someone has received some head trauma to make sure it didn’t break their brain or for an old person to see if they are going senile. Like a test where “tell me your name” is part of the test rather than part of the supporting paperwork.

      Though maybe his handlers told him it was a genius test or something like that and no one has had the heart/guts to break it to him since.

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        You are correct. A cognition tests look to see if you are having severe mental cognitive issues. The questions are extremely basic like doing connect the dots or identifying a lion.

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    … But they will vote for him anyway, because doing otherwise is basically admitting you were wrong all along, and they would never do that.

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    So, based on this- he’s been having a nervous breakdown for the past four years following four year of…. [Checks notes] a four year nervous breakdown.

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    “Donald Trump is losing his marbles”

    Yeah, that’s been obvious for a while.

    I wonder if the republicans want to do a copycat switcheroo of the Dems replacing Biden and replace Trump with someone younger and more quietly fascist. But oh well, this is the monster they created. They’re stuck with him.

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    Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’

    No, Trump is just preparing his insanity defense for when he loses.

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    Could just be his old man dementia finally surfacing. He’s fucking old, the oldest presidential candidate for sure. He’s done, he should just drop out, it’s pathetic. #donewithdementiadon

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    Mad (wannabe) king, with his subjects all in diapers, fixated and all chanting along in unison as he deteriorates “the nurses are all stealing the desert off my food tray!!! The nurses are all stealing the dessert off my food tray!!! The horses are all feeling the dress shirts on my good day!!! The morsels are healing my farts and the dogs gay!!!”

    All the grifters surrounding their grifter in chief are going to “Weekend at Bernie’s” his old, weird deteriorating body and mind so hard.