In less than a week, former President Donald Trump will find himself back on the debate stage, this time facing Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump is certain to project his trademark swagger. But there’s no mistaking that next week’s ABC News debate takes place in a political landscape that has shifted dramatically since Trump’s last head-to-head, with President Biden on June 28.

Trump’s political headaches extend beyond a string of brutal polls that show Harris leading the race both nationally and in key swing states, including Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. For months leading up to the first presidential debate, Trump projected a sense of political inevitability that had Democratic insiders ready to concede defeat. Now that doom and gloom has lifted. In the light of day, Trump’s bravado strikes most Americans as tone deaf.

as the designated old guy in the race, Trump will now be forced to prove his own vitality and mental sharpness against an opponent who made her political career by dominating televised debates. Those 90 minutes will be a minefield for an already distracted and irritable Trump.

It doesn’t help........

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