Trump's remixed rallies try to change the tune from 'Crooked Joe' to 'Comrade Kamala'

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign speeches have plenty of phrases that get repeated so much they get stuck in your head, like an earworm.

Those catchphrases include the vows for the “largest deportation effort” in history, boasts about his poll numbers and attacks on “Crooked Joe Biden.”

But since Biden dropped out of the presidential race a month ago and Vice President Harris became his new opponent, Trump hasn’t really remixed his message to keep up with an audience clamoring for new material.

“I think, frankly, I'd rather be running against somebody else,” Trump said at an August press conference at his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. “But that was their choice. They decided to do that, because Kamala's record is horrible. She's a radical left person at a level that nobody's seen.”

In rallies and social media posts, Trump has settled on "Comrade Kamala" as a moniker for his new opponent, trying to tie the Democrat and the policies of the current administration to communism.

But even then, the presidential putdowns have lost their edge since his first run for office in the 2016 election and are increasingly buried by Trump's nonsensical asides.

One example came during his rally last week in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., just before the Democratic National Convention.

Trump still commands capacity crowds, and shows why Republican voters have him in their hall of fame, but lately he’s sounded more like an aging rock star stuck in the past, and whose new riffs aren’t always in tune with the moment.

“But soon we’re going to fix every single problem Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, ‘Crooked Joe,' have cre–what happened to Biden?,” he said, breaking from his speech. “I was running against Biden, all of a sudden, I’m running against