Kamala Harris may have had a good August and September, but Donald Trump is absolutely crushing it in October. And Democrats are getting desperate. If there was anything I was worried about regarding Trump in this election, it was his ability to stay disciplined and on message. Surprisingly, he's managed to do just that, and it's working. But he has to keep it up for the next ten days, because these will be the ugliest of the campaign.
The signs are already there. A number of bogus negative October surprise stories have dropped in the past few days from the usual suspects. The Atlantic's hit piece on Trump was promptly debunked, which hasn't stopped the media from pretending it's true. The New York Times tried their own hit piece with John Kelly leading the charge to rehash an old, debunked story. The latest hit piece from The Guardian about a former supermodel who claims Trump groped her in 1993 while Jeffrey Epstein watched was debunked right here at PJ Media.
And more are coming.
"A senior advisor to Donald Trump's campaign has said other negative stories about the former president are likely to come out in the coming days after a former swimsuit model alleged Trump groped her more than than 30 years ago," reports Newsweek.
Trump advisor Bryan Lanza, appearing on CNN’s "The Situation Room" Thursday night, warned that additional negative stories about Trump were expected to emerge soon, and that the Democratic Party is behind them.
"We're two weeks within the election," Lanza told host Wolf Blitzer. "You get a lot of these fake things coming out. You know, we've addressed this. You're going to have something come out in the next couple of days, I suspect, and then something coming out next week."
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He added, "This is a long playbook that the Democratic Party has done and they try to come up somebody at the last minute to try to distract from the fact that they have yet to make their case of why Kamala Harris would have to actually be president."
Lanza also said that Trump won't publicly address whatever bogus allegations come in the next week.
"He doesn't need to," he said. "We're going to move on. We're going to talk about the issues that matter to the American people, which is immigration and the economy."
Lanza said the "dangerous culture is anytime we get close to the election, the Democratic Party is going to find an activist, the super activist we found out to come out with an allegation."
When Blitzer pointed out Trump's history of allegations, Lanza said there was also "a history of women making these things up."
"We saw this in 2016 that a lot of women came forward and none of the evidence came forward," he said.
On the upside, the recent wave of negative stories against Trump doesn’t seem to be sticking with the public. Compare that to 2020, when The Atlantic ran a now-debunked story claiming Trump refused to visit the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery near Paris in 2018 because he thought the soldiers buried there were “losers” and “suckers.” Although this claim was quickly discredited, the media latched onto it, giving it relentless coverage as though it were fact.
The recent hit pieces, however, aren’t generating the same traction. It’s as if the public has grown tired of these recycled accusations that tend to pop up only in the 11th hour of an election season. Even those inclined to believe them seem increasingly skeptical. But Trump still needs to run a flawless campaign in these final days, because just when you think the Democrats can't get any worse, they sink to a new low.
