A journalist who was given an insider’s view of Donald Trump’s campaign said that while the former president believes he will win a second term Tuesday, those closest to him “fear that the bottom has started to fall out” and aren’t too sure anymore. “He does believe that he’s going to win,” Tim Alberta, a staff writer at The Atlantic, told CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday. He added that Trump , “of course, has a pretty distorted view of political reality, I think that’s been the case for quite some time.
” Alberta spoke with nearly a dozen former Trump aides, advisers and friends for his Nov. 2 article , “Inside the Ruthless, restless final days of Trump’s campaign,” in which he gained insight into the final stretch of the Republican nominee's campaign. He told Burnett that one of the things he took away was, “This has been a total train wreck of a fall campaign for the Trump folks.
” ALSO READ: Dems freaking out over ‘grossly incompetent’ Harris operation in Pennsylvania “I think as of a few weeks ago, people close to him were still pretty bullish on his prospects. I’m not sure that’s the case anymore, I think that there is a real fear that the bottom has started to fall out here at the worst possible moment and that they are closing in about as weak a fashion as you possibly could,” Alberta said. He added that a lot of those inside Trump’s campaign feel like they’re “crawling or limping through the tape.
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