“He’s finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him,” an anonymous source close to the Republican Party told Politico. “He’d go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people’s votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn’t work. It’s offensive to people.”
Or, he’s trying to distance himself by using the media. Like how he usually will make false statements to gain attention to Doge Coin or the boring company and all the other companies he tries to get attention for.