Former White House President Anthony Scaramucci on Thursday weighed in on the changing electoral landscape in the wake of Vice President Kamala Harris entering the fray.
Media Backing: The cycle is moving quickly and the chess pieces are changed now, said Scaramucci in the latest episode of the Rest Is Politics US podcast he co-hosts with British journalist Katty Kay. The Democratic Party now has a candidate who is backed by most media outlets, barring some rightwing-leaning websites, he said. “They are building up the candidate and they’re building a persona and a profile of the candidate as a savior of not democracy alone….the new buzzword is freedom and future,” he said.
Scaramucci, the founder of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, noted that Harris was an improbable candidate as she got one percent of votes in the primaries and was selected during the George Floyd crisis in the U.S. She is an accidental candidate and accidental nominee, he said.
Trump’s Nightmarish Week: Referring to the National Association of Black Journalists national convention which Trump attended this week and received a lot of backlash for, Scaramucci said it was not a win for the former president and he lost something there.
The ex-White House aide referred to a Pennsylvania event where Trump appeared alongside David McCormick, who is running for the Senate. “He [Trump] was so flustered and he had teleprompters in front of him. He said ‘you’re great strong, great courageous leader who’s running for governor. Do you want to come up on the stage,'” Scaramucci said.
Trump made five or six major gaffes like that and they are not typical Trump gaffes, where he mispronounces a word, he added.
On the flight to Pennsylvania, Trump was off the hook upset about how it went for him at the NABJ, Scaramucci said, adding that the former president went to the convention with the intent of blowing up Harris’ spot about she being Black. Also, he wanted to leave there, scarring the Democrats, as he thought the African-American Community loved him and that they were going to embrace him.
Scaramucci said Trump was forgetting about the 20.2 million baby boomers who have died and about 33 million racially mixed people who are entering the voting age.
The ex-Trump official also noted that when the Republican nominee realized that Project 2025 was not polling well and that people thought of it as a “fascist, racist movement,” he disowned the 85 people he had put into the project.
Will Trump Drop Out: Scaramucci discussed the possibility of Trump quitting the race. Citing party insiders, including senators whom he is in touch with, he said they signaled that they tolerated Trump because they wanted to stay in power. They apparently feel Trump is not their cup of tea because of the way he handles himself.
“Some of these people have suggested to me, particularly political insiders, he does not want to go to jail,” Scaramucci said, adding that the number one reason for him to run is to get the Supreme Court to give him broader immunity against his court cases.
if he drops in the poll number, he could figure out a way to cut a deal, said Scaramucci. The businessman doesn’t think his former boss will receive a pardon but thinks he could go to the governors of New York and Georgia and ask that his sentence be commuted.
Scaramucci said Trump could cite health issues as the reason and designate someone like Nikki Haley or Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
“There’s a pass for him if he drops in the polls and the predictive markets shoot up and he starts to panic. There’s a pass for him to get out of the race, blame it on a health issue, cut a deal and avoid jail,” he said.
“I know how this man thinks,” he said, adding that this deduction was not sourced. This is based on an analysis of Trump’s personality, having known him, he added.
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