How worried are Donald Trump’s Republican Party allies that his multiweek meltdown over Kamala Harris’s rise and bizarre attacks on her (looks, race, intelligence) could cost him a second term in the White House? So worried that one of his biggest allies—a man whose head maintains residency in the president’s ass—is sounding the alarm.

Appearing on Meet the Press on Sunday, Republican senator Lindsey Graham told host Kristen Welker that while he believes “President Trump can win this election” if he focuses on policy, ”Donald Trump the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election.”

Graham’s comments follow similar remarks by former UN ambassador (and onetime GOP presidential contender) Nikki Haley, who said on Fox News last week that the Trump campaign “is not gonna win talking about crowd sizes. It’s not gonna win talking about what race Kamala Harris is. It’s not gonna win talking about whether she’s dumb. You can’t win on those things.”

Unfortunately for Trump, and the people who want to see him return to the White House, crowd sizes, Harris’s race and intelligence, and other attacks not based on policy are all the ex-president wants to talk about these days. In addition to bizarrely claiming the VP only recently decided to be Black, Trump has also falsely and insanely accused her of faking her crowd sizes—a made-up offense for which he said she should be disqualified from the election. Then on Sunday, he told supporters that he is “much better looking than her. Much better. Much better. I’m a better looking person than Kamala.”

In related news, recent polls give Harris a 3% to 4% edge over Trump nationally.

Sure sounds like he’s saying they would abolish the minimum wage if they could!

If you have to say it…

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