CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman why ex-President Donald Trump is still ranting about Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Joe Biden as the nominee after so many months.
Trump has broken into bitter rants ever since the Biden-to-Harris switch in July, but exploded into an especially wild social media meltdown Thursday, demanding an investigation and the restoration of Biden as the nominee.
On Thursday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room, Blitzer asked Haberman — whom he noted “knows Trump well” — “why is he still so obsessed with Biden?”:
BLITZER: Maggie, you know Trump well, you’re probably one of the best reporters who knows Trump and what he’s thinking. Why is he escalating his threats to his political opponents that he deems, quote, the enemy within? Why is this his closing message, what, less than three weeks until the election?
MAGGIE HABERMAN: Because it’s what …