Donald Trump spent Monday morning labeling the turmoil in the global financial markets the “Kamala Crash," giving Republicans hope that he might turn his focus to an economic message.
It didn’t last. By midday, the former president was already back to re-litigating his controversial appearance in Chicago last week, where he questioned Kamala Harris’ Black identity and suggested a major network journalist should be fired — “I didn’t know who she was, she was nasty,” he told a livestreamer.
And if Trump had an opening to hit Harris on the economy, it was unclear even to leaders of his own party if he could sustain it.
Republicans on Monday reeled from Trump's undisciplined approach to the opening stages of his new general election matchup with Harris — following a weekend that saw him praise Russian leader Vladimir Putin while smearing Harris as “low IQ,” and “dumb” and attacking a popular swing-state GOP governor whose turnout operation he may need in November.
