Body Language

By Hubie and Bertie

The consensus is that Vice President Harris handled her interview with Bret Baier on Fox "News" brilliantly yesterday. Actually, Wednesday was a pretty super-terrific all-around day for us Democrats. Not only did Harris do well on Fox (we knew she would), but Benedict Donald had two, um, very unsuccessful events, both of which sowed more doubt about his mental state.

The first was a Fox "News" town hall with women, all hand-picked, all Trump supporters (which Fox neglected to come clean about up front). But even with that uber-friendly audience, Donald managed to the master of goofs and gaffes. "I'm the father of IVF." WHUT?

The second was a town hall hosted by the Spanish-language station Univision, which went so badly for Trump that it's hard to believe his team ever allowed it in the first place. The attendees asked him better questions than journalists do (shame on you, Fourth Estate), and to each one, Trump responded with an unintelligible word salad.

The star of the show may have been a Cuban-American construction worker from Tampa (above), who challenged Trump to "win back my vote" and asked about January 6. "That was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions, it's like hundreds of thousands, it could have been the largest group I've ever spoken before," Donald said after rambling unintelligibly for a few minutes. "They asked me to speak, I went, and I spoke. And I used the term peacefully and patriotically."

This Tampa dude has gone viral, as you'd expect. His "WTF" expression as Trump replied reminded us of the looks Harris gave Donald many times at the September 10 debate (also above).

Team Trump cannot be happy about his Univision performance or the audience's reaction — or, for that matter, his equally incoherent interview at the Economic Club of Chicago this week. Because news came today that they're canceling two of Benedict Donald's planned appearances with NBC and, incredibly, the NRA. Could you find a more Trump-supportive audience than a bunch of cat-torturing gun nuts?

Something is very wrong in Trump World. Perhaps it's time for us to run against JD Vance instead — because if the Heritage Foundation picks a second Trump Cabinet in the same way it masterminded Project 2025, implementing the 25th Amendment would be a very real possibility. "President Vance"? The nation would not survive. We cats HISS.