Donald Trump's 27-day spiral: From convention bounce to campaign overhaul

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/17/politics/donald-trump-post-convention-controversy-polls-shakeup/

Donald Trump's 27-day spiral: From convention bounce to campaign overhaul

By Gregory Krieg, CNN

Updated 5:53 AM ET, Thu August 18, 2016


Twenty-seven days after his coronation in Cleveland and post-convention bounce, Donald Trump's prospects appear to be dwindling -- a precipitous decline he sought to reverse on Wednesday with a major shakeup of top campaign staff.

Weighed down by a dizzying string of successive and overlapping controversies, verbal spats, and political missteps, Trump saw his brief advantage evaporate in a haze of conflicts with everyone from the parents of a slain Muslim-American war hero and the most powerful elected official in Republican politics to a crying baby.

And that was just the beginning.

Divergent storylines have become so muddled together it is now hard to tell where one ends and the next begins. The lone certainty, it often seems, is that there is another quarrel on the horizon.

Last week, the nominee set off alarm bells across the political spectrum with comments suggesting "Second Amendment people" could step up as a last line of defense against Clinton and her potential judicial appointees. That mess was hardly settled by the time Trump launched a new attack on President Barack Obama, repeatedly calling him the "founder" of ISIS -- curious phrasing he clung to for days before seeking to defuse critics with an attack on reporters he said "don't get sarcasm."

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We still may a ways to go until November and nothing can be taken for granted.

But I am taking more joy from Donald Trump's failures in his campaign over the past month than I think I've ever taken since I've followed politics.

I want him to lose, and I want him to lose spectacularly. There's absolutely no sympathy for him. Not at all. Not even the slight sense of pathetic pity I occasionally felt for Sarah Palin when it was clear she was way over her head.

There's nothing good about Donald Trump at all and his failure as a candidate warms my heart.