What to Do If You’re the Republican Nominee in a Tied Race and You Are Suddenly Having Trouble Getting Traction? Attack Brian Kemp, of Course

It was the worst week of the campaign for Donald Trump, and he capped it off with an attack at a Georgia rally last night on one of the most popular and successful Republican governors in the country, Brian Kemp. Trump still nurses a grudge against Kemp, who did not go along with his stolen-election claims last time around, and Trump may be preparing the ground for a repeat if he loses Georgia again this year (which seemed very unlikely as of two weeks ago but now is possible again). It also may be that Trump had a strongly anti-Kemp, local MAGA leader in his ear. Who knows? But the Democrats have to be loving it.

I’m a big believer in the baseball cliché that you are never as good as you seem when you are winning and never as bad as you seem when you are losing. The race will look different at some point, but Trump has, no doubt, been on a losing streak.