Former Donald Trump Aide Stunned by His 'Lack of Sharpness' at Rally

A former aide to Donald Trump has said there is "a lack of sharpness" in what the Republican says during his rallies.

Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Alyssa Farah Griffin, a Republican who was Trump's director of strategic communications when he was in the White House, reacted to a clip of the former president speaking in Iowa on the weekend.

Trump held a rally in Cedar Rapids on Saturday afternoon, after speaking to supporters at another rally in Ankeny.

"Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy. Joe Biden is the destroyer of American democracy," he said. "So if Joe Biden wants to make this race a question of which candidate will defend our democracy and protect our freedoms, then I say to crooked Joe, and he is crooked, the most corrupt president we've ever had, we will win that fight and we're going to win it very big."

Trump is the frontrunner in the GOP primaries with 60 percent of the vote to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' 12.6 percent. Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor is on 9.5 percent.

In response to his speech, Griffin told host Dana Bash: "It's kind of remarkable, I've been watching the clips from Trump's visit to Iowa and I'm stunned having spent a lot of time with him in 2020 and years before—he is slowing down."

"There's a lack of sharpness in what he's saying and a lack of kind of clarity," she continued. "There's another clip where he basically says he's going to overturn Obamacare, but also says that he'll fix it, just complete inconsistencies and for Republicans our strongest case against Joe Biden is the age and the decline that some of us have seen. And if I'm being honest, head-to-head, I'm not sure which is struggling more."

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During his Iowa rallies, Trump also attacked his rival DeSantis, saying he sems to be dropping "like a very, very sick bird."

He urged supporters to vote in the Iowa caucus on January 15, saying: "If you would, work really hard, make sure you are working that night, bring as many people as you can to vote and do the caucus like nobody has ever done the caucus before," he said. "We have to win."

Last month, Griffin, who has become a frequent critic of the the former president, called the prospect of Trump serving another term in the White House "scary."

"I implore [Republican primary candidates] Tim Scott and Mike Pence, my friends that I think highly of, you need to endorse somebody other than Donald Trump, because the window is closing," she added in an episode of ABC's The View.