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Donald Trump is reportedly losing sleep, battling anxiety, and obsessing over his polling numbers as the GOP nominee hopes to hang his hat on any sign that he will return to the White House.

A campaign official told Axios that Trump is asking more questions and pushing his staff to work even more to ensure that he will come out ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris come Election Day.

"Trump's anxiety is evident in his late-night and early morning calls to aides in which he peppers them with questions on how things are going---and whether they think he'll win," Axios reported.

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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 290 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I've been losing sleep and having anxiety attacks over the possibility that he might worm his way back into office again, so no sympathy

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago

I've slept maybe 6 hours since Tuesday.

Just gonna white knuckle it till Tuesday.

Yeah same tbh. But also I don’t expect this shit to really wrap up one way or another in anything less than a week, and then who knows what Johnson will try to pull at the electoral vote count in December…

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

This thing needs to be a blow out to keep it out of the SC.

Kamala needs to end Tuesday dominantly. 5/7 swing states +Iowa. Its gotta be such that they can't get one case alone to the SC that changes the results.

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[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 18 points 3 weeks ago

One thing that I've found with anxiety that can help is volunteering and other things that help dem turnout. It moves the needle a little and if nothing else it makes you feel productive and some more degree of agency besides just voting yourself

Can find some phone banks, canvasing, and text banks near you

Also another small thing that can also help is reminding and encourage any dem leaning friends, family, etc. to go out and vote. Helps more than you'd think

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[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 95 points 3 weeks ago

Him losing sleep could actually kill him, I wish him many a sleepless night.

Honestly though I hope he just strokes out from the high blood pressure

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago

I want his death to be so nonchalant that nobody even realizes he's actually dead.

like, he goes to take a shit and dies on the toilet and nobody notices for like a day.

and when they find him hes all riggered up and covered in shit and piss.

and the person to find him is a secretary he's treated like shit for years. she takes pics of him, sells them for a huge amount of money, and everyone mocks him for the next two generations.

and in every history book, the last line will be about how he died covered in his own urine and feces.

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 24 points 3 weeks ago

He was a piece of shit. In his final moments, he was comforted by his kin.

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

My feeling is that he'll never face any real tangible consequences for all the shit he's put the world through. He'll have his final Big Mac Attack and dodge justice for good. Permanent delay tactic.

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[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

As much as I'd love it for him to stop being a threat to all that is good on this planet in the most final of ways; We're still in some deep shit even if he were to drop stone dead right this minute between his mob of dickhead supporters, and his running mate.

...Actually I have to go look up what happens if the president elect dies right before he's elected.

[-] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

Vice pres takes over and then selects a new vice pres.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 82 points 3 weeks ago

People need to go out and fucking vote, nothing is in the bag for Harris, especially since republicans want to legally contest every single fucking fair and free election. Traitorous losers

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Kamala needs to go fire and brimgstone with her presidency so we don't have to spend the next several decades years with every election being "maintain the status quo or become the fourth reich"

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[-] BugKilla@lemmy.world 80 points 3 weeks ago

He not anxious about the election, it's the fact he goes to jail for all of his evil shitfuckery if he loses. No amount of microphone fellatio will alay his worry about atoning for his disgusting existence.

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[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

If he loses, he’s going to prison.

[-] st3ph3n@midwest.social 47 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago

I hope he loses a lot fucking more than sleep. Tired of these god damned traitors.

[-] yrmp@lemmy.world 66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Good. You orange fuck. You rapist. Racist fucking shit stain asshole. I hope the rest of your sleeps are troubled. May the tightness in your neck grip ever harder in your final days. I hope you’re too much of a coward to commit suicide and you have to live with your actions and see your narcissistic collapse bring the house of cards down.

You’ve forced me to move my family to Germany because of the fascist movement you’ve brought to the US. You’ve had me doomscrolling since at least 2015. You’ve had me changing my travel plans checking flights out of Toronto in order to avoid flying from the US after your inauguration date so that my latino family will have no in-person interaction with any government agent from your regime despite their being citizens. You’ve fucking disrupted an entire world order due to your complicity with Duginism because of your insatiable greed and character flaws leading to Russian kompromat on you, or you’re just a piece of shit because you need the Russian money to keep coming.

You should be in jail at best, and facing a similar fate to Mussolini at worst. So fuck off with your sleepless nights you fucking weak minded piss poor excuse for a person.

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[-] daikiki@lemmy.world 61 points 3 weeks ago

New poll just dropped showing him down by 3 in Iowa(!) I hope he never gets another good night's sleep as long as he lives.

[-] socsa@piefed.social 17 points 3 weeks ago

Woah that's that benchmark tracking poll everyone was hoping to see him "only" up 5

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[-] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 weeks ago

Polls are meaningless, GO OUT AND VOTE

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago

I hope the Orange neo-Nazi bag of shit is stressing out.

[-] SanctimoniousApe 18 points 3 weeks ago

It's about effing time he gets to experience what he's been doing to all of us.

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[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 3 weeks ago

Anything that weakens him before his second coup attempt is good in my book.

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[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 43 points 3 weeks ago

It’s be really cool if he lost his freedom for all the crimes we know he’s committed…

[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 3 weeks ago

Shit... I'd settle for the ones he's been convicted of.

[-] tipicaldik@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

Florida voter here... I stood in line for about 45 minutes today for early voting. Women outnumbered men by at least 8 to 1 while I was there, which I found a bit encouraging. I enjoyed being able to vote against Matt Gaetz, and I only wish DeStains was on the ballot too so I coulda voted against his dumb-ass as well...

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[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 weeks ago

At least he gets to catch up on his sleep during court appearances eh?

[-] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 31 points 3 weeks ago

He's stressing about having to face jail if he loses. So anyways...

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

I just want to know he's not going to be president again. We can't know that for sure until Tuesday evening at the earliest. I'll never forgive Republicans for putting us through this.

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[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

But not too tired to spend 5 minutes pretending to be a fast food worker or garbage truck driver.

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

He may be getting close to that point though. Did you see how hard is was for him to get up into that truck?

[-] suction@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Lack of sleep and obesity at that age can trigger heart attacks. God willing.

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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Low energy. SAD!

[-] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 24 points 3 weeks ago

I find I can bear his discomfort with extreme fortitude.

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Anything that precipitates his inevitable natural death is welcome. Even if he loses the election this asshole will divide and weaken the West as long as he draws breath.

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[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Someone put him to sleep already.

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

He'll have plenty of time to catch up on some Z's in a prison cell.

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