'Scared s-tless': Republicans brace for Trump's primetime speech

[Dulcinea]

(Politico) -snip- The president's speech, expected to be delivered in prime time Thursday from the White House, comes amid renewed hostilities with Iran, which are once again driving up fuel prices ahead of an election that most strategists still expect to turn on cost-of-living issues.

But instead of touting the recent good news on declining inflation or hyping the new housing law, Trump plans to talk about 2020 and "free and fair elections," alarming some in the GOP who worry he will continue to make baseless claims or repeat debunked conspiracies.

"The people I talk to are scared shitless," said a former Trump administration official, granted anonymity to speak candidly. "It's not scared shitless about the text of what he's going to say, it's, what does he add to the text?"

Republican operatives, including those in Trump's inner circle, have pleaded for months for an unrelenting focus on the economy. And while the president has talked up his tax cuts and Trump Accounts during campaign stops, his decision to use a rare prime time address to focus on election integrity is a missed opportunity, the former official said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/scared-tless-republicans-brace-trump-084500683.html

[LymphocyteLover]

1. what declining inflation??? Also, if Repubs are scared, good. but we should all be scared what this mental patient

is going to say.

[Jilly_in_VA]

4. Or what he is going to do

because it seems the Repugs are scared to oppose him.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on display. Dems need to make bank on this raging lunatic. /nt

[Chasstev365]

3. It's not just going to be lies; it's going to be the incoherent ranting of his dementia infected brain

Those of us who remember stereo turn tables know what happened when there was a skip in the record.

Trump: "Rigged", SKIP..."Rigged"... SKIP " Illegals voting" SKIP... "Illegals voting" SKIP... "I won the 2020 election!" SKIP..."I won the 2020 election!" SKIP...

[NCDem47]

5. It will all be China and Venezuela helping Dems.

Nary a WORD about Russia.