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After largely disappearing to make way for Democratic infighting, Donald Trump held a rally that was at times boastful and ruthlessly cruel.
By Shawn McCreesh
A mini procession of golf carts traveled down the palm tree-lined path. Front, Donald J. Trump, riding shotgun as his second son, Eric, took them directly to the green of his golf course in Doral, Florida, where crowds of sweating supporters stood across the barricades in the sandboxes, waiting , while the mercury was around 100 degrees.
Trump had not been seen in days, and now he was there Tuesday night, on a level erected near the tenth hole of the golf course. Squinting, he looked outside.
Oh, how the landscape had changed, and in such a short time.
The word “crushing” is now credibly discussed in relation to Trump for the first time in his political career. Earlier Tuesday, nonpartisan election forecaster Cook Political Report had six states slipping in its direction.
The “Democratic Party,” he began, “is divided in chaos. And have a large-scale breakdown.
No lies were detected there.
In the first moments after President Biden collapsed in the debate thirteen days ago, Trump also seemed strangely angry. He held a rally in Virginia the next day to boast of his victory, but there was also an underlying concern: a genuine concern that Democrats might unite to update Biden with a more formidable candidate.
Trump has shamelessly discussed this uncertainty in Virginia. But then, in a show of discipline, he hid his identity and listened to his superego, largely disappearing from view to let Democratic infighting play out.
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