A shake up for the Democrats has led to an attention deficit for Trump - an unusual position for the ex-president, writes the BBC's Katty Kay.
On Thursday, Donald Trump walked into a room of journalists gathered at his Mar-a-Lago estate for a news conference. He didn’t look particularly happy.
His remarks came after a week in which Kamala Harris and her new running mate Tim Walz have dominated media attention, raked in millions of dollars and enjoyed a bump in polling. Trump’s media event seemed more an attempt to win back the spotlight than announce anything new.
At this point he's failing to fight out of a wet paper bag in the rain.
He has the power to do so, but, being Trump, he inserts his head so far into his ass he could get his head back on his shoulders from the inside out.
When I say he has the power, it would require introspection; what he could do, but refuses even when he knows, experiences, and sees the deck stacked against him for all the right reasons.