“Advisers are telling him Harris will grow her lead coming out of the Democratic convention, which begins a week from tomorrow — especially if they don’t define her better, faster. Then just a week after the convention, it’s already Labor Day,” Axios reports.
“Republican sources close to Trump tell us he realizes he needs to bring new focus to a message that can be meandering and self-indulgent. But it’s Trump. So a new script is often fictional wishfulness.”
“Trump ‘is struggling to get past his anger,’ a top Republican source tells us.”
“Trump’s aides know he won’t change. So they’re focusing ‘not on the need for him to change but on the need to adapt his message to win,’ the source said. ‘But he has to convince himself to leave the other garbage behind.’”
