Trump Struggles To Regain His MAGA Mojo Amid Anemic Polls And ... - New York Daily News

Trump Struggles To Regain His MAGA Mojo Amid Anemic Polls And … – New York Daily News

Donald Trump is fending off new questions about his political potency after a miserable week of poor polling and his controversial release of digital trading cards.

The former president finds himself heading into the end-of-the-year holidays on a low note as his 2024 comeback presidential campaign shows few signs of gaining traction and he seems to have lost at least some of his once-vaunted political touch.

He’s also facing the possibility on Monday the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump loyalists will recommend criminal charges against him for inciting the riot.

Trump, who announced the launch of his campaign last month, had already failed to respond forcefully to widespread criticism of his role in the underwhelming Republican performance in the midterm elections.

Donald Trump hawked a line of NFT trading cards this week.

Donald Trump hawked a line of NFT trading cards this week. (AP; Truth Social)

He was hit last week by a one-two punch of poor poll results.

Both surveys say Trump has fallen far behind Republican rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the battle for Republican primary voters in the race that will likely take off later next year. One showed him losing badly to President Biden in a hypothetical rematch.

But the worst blow of the week was a surprise self-inflicted one.

Trump on Wednesday told supporters to expect a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!” the next day. “American needs a superhero!” he added.

Speculation ran wild that he might be planning to announce a big move to jump-start his sputtering White House campaign or perhaps even an attention-grabbing run for speaker of the House in the new Congress.

Instead, Trump announced the release of a set of $99-a-pop digital trading cards showing cartoon images of himself in various heroic poses.

The Trump cards are known as nonfungible tokens, or NFT’s, which are stored on internet platforms and have unique identifiers that supposedly prevent them from being copied, forged or sto