Let Trump be Trump: Harris’s recent Momentum and Trump’s necessary Hiring of Lewandowski
We are less than three months out from the 2024 presidential election, and the Trump campaign is in need of a massive shakeup.
Over the past few weeks, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has undergone a large bump in presidential polling. According to the Real Clear Politics (RCP) aggregate polls, VP Harris has managed to take a slight lead ahead of President Trump in national polls.
On July 23rd, the RCP average showed Harris down by 1.6% against Donald Trump. Just one month later, Harris now holds a 1.4% lead in the RCP average.
Photo courtesy of the Real Clear Polling website
Before Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential election, President Trump held roughly a 3% lead over Biden in the RCP national polling average. This roughly 4.5% swing in national polls in just one month is a massive development for the state of the 2024 US presidential election.
What’s worse is that Donald Trump’s polling lead in the key battleground states has essentially evaporated. As of today (August 19th), the RCP average shows Harris leading Trump in Wisconsin and Michigan. Additionally, Trump only holds a 0.1% lead in Pennsylvania and a 0.2% lead in Arizona—according to the RCP poll average. These four states will likely decide the overall outcome of the 2024 presidential election, and President Trump needs a combination of at least one or two of these states in order to win this November’s election.
Obviously, political momentum is shifting toward the Harris campaign over the last month, and the Trump campaign certainly understands this reality.
President Trump’s two main advisors for the 2024 campaign have been Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. For those who don’t know, LaCivita and Wiles are establishment, RINO Republicans who are responsible for ruining Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Remarkably, neither LaCivita or Wiles believe that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Even worse, LaCivita’s political consulting firm FP1 strategies is owned by Omnicom–a publicly traded company partially owned by Blackrock.
LaCivita, in particular, has publicly attacked President Trump as recently as 2021. The tweets below provide evidence of his disloyalty to the MAGA movement and Donald Trump:
Last week, several media outlets recently reported that President Trump has seriously considered firing LaCivita and Wiles over their poor performance—which is completely understandable. LaCivita and Wiles have done a terrible job running Trump’s campaign over the past month. They wasted all the positive political coverage that President Trump received after the assassination attempt on his life and the RNC last month. Instead, they allowed Kamala Harris to take the political spotlight away from Trump and make the news cycle all about her candidacy.
A perfect example of LaCivita and Wiles’s incompetence was last month’s PR nightmare during the National Association of Black Journalists. For some unknown reason, LaCivita and Wiles decided to send Trump into a highly hostile event that featured nasty questions from reporters and a rude crowd. One has to wonder if LaCivita and Wiles are either highly incompetent or if they intentionally trying to make Trump lose in November,
Fortunately, President Trump decided to hire several loyalists from his original 2016 presidential campaign last week. Most notably, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski was the most notable addition to his 2024 campaign.
Lewandowski made the following post on Twitter/X after his hiring and used his famous catchphrase from the 2016 campaign “Let Trump be Trump”:
President Trump must stop Kamala Harris’s recent momentum in the 2024 election cycle, and the hiring of Corey Lewandowski is likely going to be a solid move in the right direction.
However, President Trump must take more drastic steps to fix his 2024 presidential campaign. The best place to start would be for President Trump to fire advisors Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles. In the 2016 campaign, Trump fired multiple campaign managers and advisors whenever the campaign needed a shakeup. So, now it’s high time to course correct the 2024 campaign.
We’ll probably dive deeper into the idea of firing LaCivita and Wiles in another article here on RVIVR this week. So, stay tuned for more content.
