Maggie Haberman Says ‘No Question’ Trump Is ‘More Incoherent’ Now — ‘Struck By’ His Angrier Revenge-Focused Closing
CNN commentator and New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman said there’s “no question” former President Donald Trump is “more incoherent, more rambling” than he was even 6 months ago, and that she’s “struck by” the darkness of his closing message.
With less than two weeks to go, Trump is fighting new bombshells about his admiration for Nazis and alleged racist contempt for a slain soldier, while his campaign speeches continue to draw criticism despite his “The Weave” explanation for what has widely been described as rambling.
On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Haberman observed that Trump has slid in the past six months, citing misfortunes like his assassination attempt and President Joe Biden’s exit from the race:
COOPER: As who has studied Donald Trump or written about him in your book, how does he seem to you now compared to six months ago in this campaign?
HABERMAN: Well, six months ago was before the assassination attempt in Butler, and it was before President Biden dropped out of the race. And I think that those were two seminal moments for Donald Trump. He has you know, there’s a lot of discussion, there’s no question that he is more incoherent, more rambling and he’s older and so, I do think that’s a part of and the speech lengths are very, very long. They’ve been timed. I don’t personally think that there is some market huge difference in
who he was eight years ago as a person as to who he is now. I think people actually had a pretty good sense of who he was and he said many of the same things then. The language is darker now. He seemed angrier and he seems a little more focused on talking openly about revenge than he was earlier this year, more than a little earlier this year. And that, I am struck by, especially as a closing message.
COOPER: Do you get the sense that people around him in the campaign are concerned about at all?
HABERMAN: There are people in the campaign who would likely have been trying for a while to get the rally speeches down to something closer of what it was in 2016 which was under an hour now, I think on average 82 minutes and sometimes much longer.
They’re concerned about some of the rhetoric and whether it will turn people off. They have been this whole time. I mean, there are a lot of — I shouldn’t say a lot. There is a segment of voters who clearly have made up their minds about Donald Trump. And so, what the campaign needs is for them not to say, you know what, I have to go vote for Harris because I just can’t sit on the sidelines. They need them to just not vote.
Watch above via Anderson Cooper 360.
