“Fresh off a week of daily counterprogramming events and an effort to steal the spotlight from his new opponent, Donald Trump and his campaign are seeking to harness that pace in the lead-up to November — with plans to aggressively ramp up the former president’s schedule, hone his debate skills and cultivate a new ground-game strategy tied to the early voting states,“ CNN reports.
“The new approach is itself an acknowledgment that Trump’s campaign has struggled to adapt to the fast-changing political landscape after President Joe Biden ended his campaign less than four months before Election Day.”
Playbook: “The accelerated clip comes after Trump spent the summer engaged in a fraction of the number of rallies he headlined in 2016, spending most of his time trolling Biden from Mar-a-Lago. Even when he hit the trail, he prioritized stops in the Republican stronghold of Montana and deep blue New Jersey — puzzling plenty of Republicans fretting about more vital battleground states.”
