After Democrats did their job of burying Weekend at Bernie’s and the media did its job of memory-holing Trump’s heroic response to the assassination attempt against him, one would have been completely reasonable to have expected clear sailing ahead for the system’s newly chosen candidate, Kamala Harris. What was then largely considered a great GOP convention had effectively been rendered moot, not just ancient history, but totally irrelevant ancient history and Republicans still had to face the barrage of Harris’ honeymoon period, a running mate selection, and the bad guys batting at the bottom of the inning with a Democratic convention and the inevitable fawning media coverage taking place a mere two months before the election.

To their credit, Donald Trump and his team knew they would take some incoming fire and that there wasn’t much they could do then about the Harris polling bounce that would inevitably occur because of it. That’s just the nature of politics. The party in power gets to have their convention last, and replacing a walking corpse with someone with a pulse is obviously going to have its merits. To their detriment, Trump and his team........

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