The reason Trump's holding blue state rallies should terrify you

Watching Donald Trump shamble into the election’s final stretch, it’s difficult to believe he’s serious about this campaign. His pitch to voters has boiled down to nothing but racism and random tax breaks. And now he’s taken to campaigning in blue states he has no hopes of winning.

It’s the behavior of someone who believes he can’t lose, despite that he’s in the middle of what polls say is a toss-up race.

Take his chaotic campaign stop in Coachella, California, over the weekend. He dragged his supporters out to the desert in 100-degree heat in a state where Biden pulled roughly 64% of the vote in 2020, just to ramble at them for 80 minutes. Besides literally overheating his fan base to the point where several needed medical attention, Trump also stranded many of those same fans in the desert for hours. 

Yes, after busing the faithful roughly 5 miles from their cars to the event, the campaign didn’t do enough to get them back when things were done. Posts on X showed hundreds of people still waiting around, vainly hoping for more buses, hours after the event ended. Trump fans speculated that the lack of buses was due to some nefarious influence from Democrats rather than the far simpler explanation: The candidate who marooned his supporters multiple times in 2020 is doing it again.