Republicans worry Trump is having a ‘public nervous breakdown’ - Lemmy.World

‘Donald Trump is losing his marbles,’ former Congressman and Republican Adam Kinzinger said Republicans are concerned that party leader Donald Trump [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/adin-ross-trump-stream-cybertruck-b2591605.html] is having a “public nervous breakdown” after he made a series of offensive outbursts about Vice President Kamala Harris [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-vp-pick-tim-walz-election-b2591978.html] as he slips behind her in the polls. The former president has made a number of  insulting personal attacks [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kamala-harris-biden-republicans-attacks-b2579307.html] against his Democratic rival since she moved to the top of the ticket. Last week, Trump [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-barron-adin-ross-b2591980.html] questioned Harris’s racial identity  [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-convention-harris-ethnicity-race-nabj-b2589136.html] at the National Association of Black Journalists conference. Over the weekend, he accused Harris of having a “low IQ.”  New polls indicate Trump [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-adin-ross-cybertruck-assassination-b2591627.html] is slipping [https://www.realclearpolling.com/] behind the vice president in the popular vote and races are tightening in battleground states.  “This is what you would call a public nervous breakdown,” Matthew Bartlett, a Republican strategist and former Trump state department appointee, told Politico [https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/05/republicans-cringe-trump-harris-attacks-00172724].