Trump campaign roiled by 'tumult and knife-fighting' as election clock ticks down

Donald Trump's third presidential campaign, once lauded as a well-oiled machine under the leadership of top advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, is falling apart with 45 days left before voters go to the polls.

According to a report from the Washington Post's Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey and Marianne LeVine, the Trump train wheels are coming off as Vice President Kamala Harris surges in the polls and "the most disciplined campaign" Trump has even been a part of has spiraled into infighting and finger-pointing at the worst possible time.

As the report notes, recent forays into immigrant bashing led by the former president and his running mate J.D. Vance has driven what was a well-orchestrated pitch to voters into a ditch and the two nominees won't back down to the dismay of some of their advisers.

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"Just 45 days left until the election, the past three weeks reveal that whatever control and self-restraint that helped launch Trump’s third presidential campaign has largely disappeared in the crucial final stretch," The Post is reporting before adding that an insider complained a great deal of the dischord falls on the nominee himself, telling the Post. It’s not even ‘Let Trump be Trump.' It’s ‘Let Trump be unsupervised at all times.’ They just feel like, ‘We can’t control him, so let’s hope he wins anyways.’”

Adding to that was the hiring of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski who, it now appears, has already worn out his welcome with the former president.

With the Post reporting, "Trump has also begun to privately criticize Lewandowski, downplaying his role on the campaign and their relationship, three people familiar with his comments said," the report adds, "Privately, Wiles has told allies that it has been difficult to see the close-knit, disciplined operation that she helped build face such tumult and infighting in the final months — and that the past few weeks have been among her least favorite since joining the operation in 2021."

"Campaign advisers also have been battling for weeks over sending out mailings to voters, according to multiple advisers. Trump is skeptical of the strategy entirely and would prefer to spend the money on television ads, the people said, while there have been disagreements over how much to spend on mail and what the messaging should be," the report notes before adding, "Allies have grown concerned that Trump and the Republicans are being outspent in almost every state — some by large margins — and that Democrats are far outraising Republicans."

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