How Bad? So Bad...

Competition is stiff.

But will be hard to top this as worst headline of the year. pic.twitter.com/5lykl3hBQX

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) August 30, 2024

How bad? So bad, Politico scrubbed it.

What? What?? Trump launched a racist attack on Harris, Harris decided not to respond or amplify it, and Politico summarized that as ‘Harris evades questions about her identify’????

What? Our media is broken. https://t.co/20UUcW0EJi https://t.co/zjYBh157pT

— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) August 30, 2024

I think a more accurate headline would be “Harris declines to answer tendentious question reframing Donald Trump’s vile racist attack.” https://t.co/KLcIN2iwnh

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 31, 2024

FML https://t.co/KLcIN2hYxJ

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) August 31, 2024

Not that the CNN interview wasn't terrible. The question about Harris' race was a high school lunch table question: "Donald said you weren't black! Did you hear that?" It was gossip, pure and undistilled. Harris handled it with such aplomb the issue disappeared, same way it would at the high school lunch table. But will the press gossip report on this?

Trump: Then around the 13th, the 12th season, they put me into a poll with a real stiff named Mitt Romney. Total stiff. This guy is bad news. He's worse than a rhino. pic.twitter.com/7pcfOcNPXP

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

Or this?

Trump: We don't need another defective person as President of the United States. We just had that. pic.twitter.com/XdgIi5lgKW

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

I'm sure they want to ask Kamala about this:

Trump: I have a debate coming up with this one. She didn't want to debate. They were not happy about it. pic.twitter.com/vg64ySfa4l

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

This will pass unnoticed:

Justice: Let's talk about some of the things that you might be able to do as president.

Trump: You can do everything. The President has such power. It does. Such power. pic.twitter.com/tzpcLgIi3D

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

As well as this:

Trump: Our country is being poisoned. Your schools and children are suffering greatly because they are going into classrooms and they don't even speak English pic.twitter.com/2scELyQz9T

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

Or even this:

Excuse me? https://t.co/AVUellQt1l

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) August 31, 2024

Somebody needs to ask Biden about this, I'm sure:

Trump: Now Biden goes around using it. He didn't even know the name of the resolute desk. Now he goes, I sit behind the resolute desk. He doesn't even know what the hell it is. It's a beauty. pic.twitter.com/FMgl2oNdCf

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 31, 2024

The press won't report on it, because they'll fixate on this:

JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man at Donald Trump’s rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, stormed into the press area as the former president spoke Friday but was surrounded by police and sheriff’s deputies and was eventually subdued with a Taser. https://t.co/oRhInrVaoa

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) August 31, 2024

It's about the press, after all. Trump has weevils in his brain. It's the only explanation. But that's not the Big Story today.