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Democratic officials also cringed, with Gov. Josh Shapiro, D-Penn., saying on CNN that he "would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans even if they chose to support a candidate that I didn’t support" while also noting that when similar or worse comments are made by his own allies, Trump has an "inability to simply say comments like that are wrong, to simply stand up for his fellow Americans."

Meanwhile, his city only cringed and thought, yeah, we’ve seen these sorts of great bursts from him before, but he wears down without help.

Others too have cringed as Trump has attacked Ms Harris over her racial identity or made bizarre claims that she was engaged in deep-fake fraud over the size of the crowds at her rallies.

I know I’m not the only one who cringed.

He played in another Bay Area World Series after the ’73 season, his last, but baseball followers everywhere, purists and casual fans alike, cringed as the former style master stumbled around the Mets’ outfield against the Oakland Athletics, who repeated as champions in seven games.