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Commentators and academics have been weighing in on why Donald Trump won the US election. The images of him bleeding after a failed assassination attempt became the symbol of what supporters saw as a campaign of destinyHow Mr. Trump won is also the story of how Ms. Harris lost. Laurel Duggan, UnHerdWhy white women stuck with TrumpAdvertisementThe abortion issue had seemingly little impact on Republicans's performance with white women in this cycle. Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight and author of the Silver Bulletin newsletterSilver republished a lengthy blog post from late October with the new title "24 reasons that Trump won." Nate Silver offered up 24 reasons why Trump won.
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The beverage has had a starring role in the 2024 campaign because, it turns out, both vice-presidential candidates are fans of it. That suggests some artificially sweetened version of horseshoe theory, with left and right arriving at a similar destination, a carbonated détente. It’s also zero calories per serving, and neither man seems to be a metabolic marvel liberated from any worry about weight. President Theodore Roosevelt, so appreciative of nature, plucked mint from the White House garden for juleps. President Donald Trump, so given to excess, drank as many as 12 Diet Cokes a day.
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Frank Bruni: Beth, Jim, thanks for joining me to discuss the hottest topic in American politics: To whom will Kamala Harris propose? It’s like “The Bachelor,” only with nuclear codes instead of a red rose. But there have been periods recently when everybody around me was betting on either Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Gov. Each of you has steered a presidential campaign: What, based on that experience, would you guess is Vice President Harris’s and her advisers’ primary consideration as they make this decision? Beth Myers: Choosing a vice president is one of the very few choices that the nominee has under her control, and it’s very particular for every candidate.
Persons: Frank Bruni, Beth Myers, Mitt Romney’s, Jim Jordan, John Kerry’s, Kamala Harris, Beth, Jim, Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly of, Andy Beshear, Tim Walz, Harris’s, Organizations: Pennsylvania, Gov, Minnesota Locations: Philadelphia, Mark Kelly of Arizona, Kentucky
With Vice President Kamala Harris’s announcement of her running mate only days away, I should probably be placing odds on who will get the nod. They belie all the complaints until recently about the barren Democratic Party bench, constituting a whole gleaming bleachers section of their own. You allow yourself the bounty of Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, Andy Beshear and Tim Walz, all of whom reportedly reached the finals of consideration to join Harris on the Democratic ticket. You deny yourself the splendor of Gretchen Whitmer, Gina Raimondo and Pete Buttigieg, all of whom have been deemed long shots or nonstarters for reasons apart from their political talents. With the stakes as high as they are in this election, risks that big are arguably unaffordable.
Persons: Kamala Harris’s, Josh Shapiro, Mark Kelly, Andy Beshear, Tim Walz, Harris, Gretchen Whitmer, Gina Raimondo, Pete Buttigieg, Whitmer, isn’t Organizations: Democratic Party, Democratic Locations: Michigan
Opinion | Strong Women Are Driving Donald Trump Crazy
  + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
It’s always a good idea to pay attention to Nancy Pelosi and to judge where things are going by which direction she’s nudging them in, but that was especially true over the past few weeks. And I realized that Vice President Kamala Harris wouldn’t face any competition for the Democratic nomination when Pelosi endorsed her. In other words, Pelosi, a woman who so ably foiled Donald Trump when he was president and she was House speaker, helped make it possible — and then confirmed — that another woman, Harris, would lead the charge to foil him from becoming president again. It’s a veritable Hollywood movie. Women are scripting what will happen to Trump, who has treated women with such cruelty and contempt.
Persons: It’s, Nancy Pelosi, Biden, he’d, Kamala Harris wouldn’t, Pelosi, Donald Trump, Harris, Trump Organizations: Democratic
I’m still waiting to wake up and realize that it was all a dream: the debate, the attempted assassination, President Biden’s Rehoboth reckoning, the quicksilver ascent of Vice President Kamala Harris. I have teachers texting and calling me from out of state who have never donated to a political candidate asking how to do it the right way to ensure it gets to the Harris campaign. It feels very “hopey changey.” I tuned in (along with hundreds of thousands of others) to watch Harris speak to the staff at campaign headquarters and walked away inspired. The transition from Biden to Harris has been remarkably seamless and successful. Her initial remarks on Monday were strong, powerful and clearly her own words, not things cribbed from the previous campaign.
Persons: Frank Bruni, Mallory McMorrow, Simon Rosenberg, , I’m, Biden’s Rehoboth, Kamala Harris, Donald Trump, God, Harris, Biden Organizations: Democratic Locations: Michigan
Opinion | Trump vs. ‘America’s Border Czar’
  + stars: | 2024-07-22 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Border czar.”If Donald Trump and his campaign staff could tattoo that epithet onto Kamala Harris’s forehead or dress her in a sandwich board bearing only that phrase, they would. So it’s not surprising to encounter it at the start of the first major ad that the Trump campaign has released since Harris became the de facto Democratic nominee. “This is America’s border czar,” says an unseen narrator, in an ominous voice, as the words “Border Czar Kamala Harris” appear onscreen, just to hammer home the designation. And like him, it doesn’t play fair — in tying illegal border crossings to terrorism and in assigning her ultimate responsibility for those crossings. But the ad is smart, and it’s a clear signal of what will be a main theme, possibly the main theme, in Republicans’ attacks against Harris in particular and Democrats in general.
Persons: Donald Trump, Kamala, it’s, Trump, Harris, , Kamala Harris ”, She’s Organizations: Democratic, Central
And he was staggering toward an increasingly ugly revolt within it or a potentially harrowing defeat by Donald Trump. It misses the bigness of what Biden just did — its historical rarity, its emotional agony, its fundamental humility. (“I’m getting so frustrated by the elites.” “Look at the crowds.”) But that doesn’t erase the enormous impact and extraordinary example of relinquishing his candidacy. Maybe his endorsement of Kamala Harris and the vice president’s traditional status as heir apparent will amount to her speedy anointment. She has doubters aplenty, and many prominent Democrats crave a real competition, not a segue from obligatory indulgence of Biden to forced allegiance to Harris.
Persons: Biden, He’d, Donald Trump, that’s, I’m, Kamala Harris, Democrats crave, Harris Organizations: Democratic Party, Democrats
Patrick Healy: Frank, Michelle, David, the Republican convention is opening on Monday night just 48 hours after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. How do you think the shooting will shape or change the convention, and Trump? The key player here will be Trump, of course, and his nomination speech may well be the most-watched address in a generation. Patrick: How far do you think Republicans will take it, Frank? I’m watching to see how much further Republican politicians themselves push that kind of thinking and accusation.
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Opinion | This Is How You Know Trump Smells Victory
  + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I’m used to Donald Trump being painfully loud, proudly obnoxious and, well, sort of bonkers. I’m used to alligators-on-the-border Trump, sharks-in-the-water Trump, Hannibal Lecter Trump. And this loosely hinged version of Trump scares me much, much more than the utterly unhinged one. He smells victory in November in a way he’s never really smelled it before, and his nose isn’t off. What they did with the platform, just before next week’s Republican National Convention, was soften its anti-abortion stance and tone down the homophobia.
Persons: I’m, Donald Trump, Trump, Hannibal Lecter Trump, pummel Biden, Yoo Organizations: Republican Party, Trump, Democratic Party, Republican National Convention Locations: America
We tell children — or at least we used to — that actions have consequences. Donald Trump is the living, lying contradiction of that. You thought that changed with a Manhattan jury’s verdict five weeks ago? Only amplified the theatrical ardor with which Republican politicians pledged their devotion. Oh, and his sentencing has now been delayed and the conviction itself thrown into doubt, thanks to a supremely reckless Supreme Court.
Persons: Donald Trump Organizations: Republican Locations: Manhattan
Opinion | Biden Cannot Go on Like This
  + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
I’m not sure I’d ever watched Donald Trump lie so incessantly, extravagantly and unabashedly, and that’s saying something. He lied about his relationship with the military, about his concern for the environment — about pretty much any and every subject that came up. But President Biden failed to take advantage of it. Biden, 81, came into his face-off with Trump knowing that many voters were concerned about his age and had doubts about his sharpness. And he and they spent much of the past week devoted to preparation, preparation, preparation, pausing occasionally to assure nervous Democrats that Biden had this thing under control.
Persons: I’m, I’d, Donald Trump, Biden, He’d Organizations: Capitol, Trump Locations: Charlottesville, Va
Frank Bruni: Olivia, Matt, I thank you for joining me and I wonder if you’re as disoriented as I am. A general-election presidential debate in June? Matthew Continetti: The dizziness you feel is the result of a truly strange presidential election. Biden and Trump are the oldest presidential candidates in history, and among the least liked. Olivia Nuzzi: I am usually disoriented when I look at our political landscape.
Persons: Frank Bruni, Matthew Continetti, , Olivia Nuzzi, Biden, Donald Trump, Olivia, Matt, Trump, Robert F, Kennedy Jr Organizations: Washington, New York, Commission, Biden Locations: America
Opinion | Donald Trump Is You! And You! And You!
  + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Donald Trump contains multitudes. When federal agents came for those classified documents scattered like pocket change around Mar-a-Lago, they were really coming for you. They used Trump to teach you a lesson and flexed their contempt for you through their indictment of him. In a fund-raising email sent by his campaign last week, Trump said, “If we fail to have a MASSIVE outpouring of patriotic support — right here, right now — they’ll TAKE ME OUT and move on to their real target: YOU! !”And all the Jesus Christ allusions of late by Trump and his disciples?
Persons: Donald Trump, , Trump Organizations: Trump Locations: Manhattan, Coast
Opinion | The Governor’s Race You Cannot Ignore
  + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
That’s how Mark Robinson’s aides characterize any attention to his diatribes against Jewish people, gay people, women. They want voters in North Carolina, where he is the Republican nominee for governor, to see him as just another conservative whose straight talk and religiousness come under predictable fire from the ambassadors of wokeness. And Robinson’s fate will be an especially revealing referendum on just how much, in the America of 2024, tribalism trumps common sense and common decency and voters tune out the truth. The governor’s race pits Robinson, who’d be North Carolina’s first Black governor, against Josh Stein, the Democrat, who’d be its first Jewish one. And they’re the very foundation of his improbable political career: He was elected lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020 almost solely on the basis of a single speech in opposition to sensible restrictions on firearms.
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I’m routinely gobsmacked by how many people — including influential Democrats — tell me that they can’t imagine a victory by Donald Trump in November. Most of them don’t parse the economy and augur an end to the “vibecession” that’s distorting assessments of the country’s welfare under Joe Biden. They say some version of this:Americans won’t be that reckless with the country’s future and won’t stoop that crudely and cruelly low. They’ll recognize, however grudgingly, that Trump is an unserious person, unfit for a serious country. It’s a dangerous reprise of the (greater) confidence that Democrats felt about Hillary Clinton back in 2016.
Persons: I’m, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, it’s, Trump, Hillary Clinton
Opinion | How Will Trump’s Conviction Affect the Election?
  + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
To the Editor:Re “‘Guilty’ May Not Matter,” by Frank Bruni (Opinion, June 2):Mr. Bruni fears that Donald Trump’s newfound status as a convicted felon may not be enough for him to lose the election. Although Mr. Bruni may be right, he and the rest of us who desperately want to keep this despicable demagogue from returning to the White House should consider why so many millions would vote for a candidate with a criminal record. Mr. Trump’s appeals to grievance and nostalgia for a bygone era have found fertile ground among the non-college-educated working class whose economic advancement has stalled over the past several decades. In many cases Mr. Trump simply exploits racism and xenophobia, but legitimate injury is there as well. With his declarations of a system rigged against both him and his supporters, Mr. Trump has cynically channeled anger at elites who have successfully ridden out or even engineered capitalism’s latest jolts.
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Frank Bruni: Josh, Olivia, great to be with you. I want to start not with Donald Trump but with Joe Biden. What’s the optimal balance between running against a “convicted felon” and focusing on the day-to-day concerns of less partisan, less engaged voters? I for one think Biden needs to be very careful about overdoing the felon part — voters are well aware of Trump’s status, transgressions and, er, character. So Biden’s big challenge is that he really needs to reach people who aren’t interested in politics and aren’t likely to hear any given message he sends out.
Persons: Frank Bruni, Josh Barro, Olivia Nuzzi, Trump, Josh, Olivia, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Biden, , Nate Cohn, aren’t Organizations: Washington, New York, The Times
Opinion | For Trump, ‘Guilty’ May Not Matter
  + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The first former American president to be put on trial is now the first former American president to be convicted of a felony. I could see him skipping out of the cemetery, all the way back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I could see “guilty” being a mere bump in the road. I long ago lost count of the times that “witch hunt” tumbled from his lips or his keyboard. Trump came to understand that commanding people’s attention could get him only so far, while commanding their realities might enable him to get away with anything.
Persons: Donald Trump, , , Trump Locations: American
Opinion | How to Buy Yourself a Longer Life
  + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The fitness chain Equinox recently announced a new peak of pampering, a higher altitude of indulgence. It’s a deluxe membership called Optimize by Equinox, it costs about $40,000 a year and it comes with a sleep coach. I know what tennis coaches do. I know what football coaches do. But a sleep coach?
Opinion | When Donald Trump Met Hannibal Lecter
  + stars: | 2024-05-16 | by ( Frank Bruni | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
How many of your acquaintances have been eaten by an immigrant who crossed the U.S. border illegally? I’m going to go out on a limb — the botanical kind, not the sort that a cannibal might call dinner — and guess zero. I’m also going to guess that a few of you are wondering if I’ve lost my mind. Donald Trump is the one who should be drawing your concern. Hannibal the Cannibal.
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Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailWhy are Americans so angry? New York Times writer Frank Bruni on the airing of grievancesFrank Bruni, New York Times writer, Duke professor and ‘The Age of Grievance’ author, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the airing of grievances in America, why Americans are so angry, the monetization of outrage culture, and more.
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He’s jumping, along with all the other Republicans in moral free fall. “Supporting a man McConnell has clearly deemed unfit for the office may make McConnell craven, cynical or absurd, but he’s not alone in his decision.” Far from it. Christie at least isn’t supporting Trump. And it’s a reason that he can hold his head higher than Sununu, Barr or McConnell can. I’m asking Christie to remember that less than six months ago, he called Trump “a dictator.” And seemed to believe that.
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The music swells. I never expected the music to swell and the credits to roll with Mike Johnson’s face in the center of the frame. But before we move on to the next congressional melodrama, let’s make sure we’ve given Johnson his due. In an era this intensely and corrosively partisan, it’s especially important that we give warranted praise and appropriate thanks to people with whom we usually disagree. Tribalism discourages that, but a healthy democracy demands it.
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“He reserves fear for one person, Melania Trump.” That’s what Kellyanne Conway said about Donald Trump in her testimony before a congressional committee in 2022. But then we don’t get to look at them all that much — not the two of them together. It’s a mystery, like so much about their marriage and about the former first lady herself. Journalists wanted to know what Melania Trump was thinking. And Donald Trump fumed to reporters that the trial might prevent him from joining Melania at the high school graduation of their son, Barron, on May 17.
Persons: Melania Trump, Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump, Melania, , Stephanie Grisham, Donald Trump’s, Katie Rogers, Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump fumed, Barron Organizations: , The, Journalists, Melania Locations: Manhattan
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