During a discussion on Donald Trump's rambling Mar-a-Lago press conference on Thursday, Jonathan Lemire, host of MSNBC's "Way Too Early," revealed the former president decided to put himself in front of the press at the last minute after he learned his top aides were going to be speaking to reporters.
During the "Morning Joe" panel, Lemire told host Joe Scarborough, "I'm told by Trump insiders that there was a campaign briefing scheduled the day before for some reporters to come down there, and that Trump aides would talk about the state of the race. Trump said, 'Well, if they're here, I'll have a news conference.'"
"They're trying to draw a contrast because Vice President [Kamala] Harris hasn't taken that many questions since being the nominee. She should, but that's not an issue that's going to move voters," he continued. "Really what this was about was Trump trying to say, I am angry at my staff, they're failing me, I'm going to go out there and try to fix things. Yet, if the goal here is to win over some new voters, it's hard to see that happened."
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"More than anything, the vibe from Mar-a-Lago yesterday was panic, " MSNBC regular John Arthur Heilemann contributed. "It's now been three weeks since Harris became the Democratic, you know, presumptive nominee, and they haven't been able to land a finger on her, they haven't figured this out at all."
He then continued, "And we know the one thing that gets under Trump's skin more than anything is crowd size, and she is outdrawing him. He can't handle that. They're trying to change the dynamics of the race."
"One truism is the candidate who wants to have more and more debates is the candidate who is losing, and that's what we got from Donald Trump yesterday," he added.
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