Trump should listen to Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley, former ambassador to the United Nations and ex-presidential candidate, has some very sensible advice for Donald Trump which he would be wise to take on board if he wants to win the White House in November. She has said in an interview with Fox News that Trump should stop all this talk about Kamala Harris's crowd sizes and other peripheral topics which the former president appears to be obsessed withm and focus on the subjects which the American poeple are more concerned about such as buying a house and getting a job and facing a more hopeful future without wars always on the horizon. She's right. Ever since Joe Biden stepped down - forced out by Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney et al - and replaced by Kamala Harris, Trump and his campaign team have been floundering around, not knowing which way to turn. Trump began with a bunch of insults trying to do down Kamala, mispronouncing her name and querying whether she was Indian or black, and others started to attack her running mate, Tim Walz, denigrating his service as a National Guardsman. All predictable stuff but all petty schoolboyish and unnecessary. So Haley says, come on, if you want to win in November, you've got to show you have what it takes to keep this country flourishing, safe and economically prosperous. Trump of course won't like being preached at by his former rival for the Republican nomination but he should listen to her advice. The trouble for Trump is that the removal of Biden from the Democratic ticket was a blow which, mysteriously, he hadn't really anticipated. So he was caught on the hop and he has yet to recover. The way things are going right now he is going to lose big time. Who'd have thought it just a few weeks ago.