Im calling it at 10 oclock at night.
How does that sound to everybody?
I think its looking super good, he toldRolling Stone.
A delegate dances with a Trump mask at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on July 16, 2024.Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images
I mean, we got all the momentum right now.
There are still 3.5 months before Election Day, an eternity in American politics.
Are we gonna blow this?
Hes riskingactual prison sentences, a reality he iskeenlyawareof and hopes to use another presidential termto forestall.
But elections are not sprints.
They are long races, and the dynamics can shift.
Some of the Republican overconfidence in this moment can be attributed to faith.
South Carolina Sen. Tim Scotts convention speech epitomized this line of religious reasoning.
On Saturday the devil came to Pennsylvania with a rifle, Scott said.
But an American lion got back on his feet.
As Lara Trump put it at the convention afterparty: God is not finished with Donald J. Trump.
Zeldin exhorted GOP activists against getting outworked by Democrats.
Around him were former senior Trump administration officials and other MAGA stalwarts, partying late into the night.