THE DAILY BEAST
Donald Trump is out of time.
By Goldie Taylor
With less than 100 days left in the run-up to the general election this fall, almost any other candidate in any other year could still turn it all around. Smart campaign advisors hunched around a conference room table could fashion a winning strategy to grow the base, entice donors into to the fold and prepare an effective line of attack that focused on his opponent’s most profound vulnerabilities.
But Trump isn’t just any candidate.
Over and over again, he has proven himself an undisciplined, narcissistic bombast-blaster who is more interested in hurling bricks than laying them. If he is to recover at all from what has been the worst week of active campaigning since he entered the race last summer, Trump has just over three months to build a state-by-state campaign organization staffed by experienced true believers. That will take money and seasoned talent.
He can do neither.
To win, Trump will need to build coalitions fueled by much more than white male resentment. He will need full throated endorsements from national and local Republican leaders— including the center and center-right. Instead, even Newt Gingrich is calling into question whether he can handle the job. For Trump to have a prayer at turning the White House gold, independents, who are now breaking in favor of Hillary Clinton, must change course and link arms with the far right wing that he has already cemented. His campaign must begin luring the very voters he has mocked and derided: women and college educated whites, as well as racial and religious minorities.
The problem for Trump is three-fold. He has lost racial and religious minorities. As for women and college educated whites, Mitt Romney posted better numbers at this same point in 2012. And, even now, as Trump trades verbal fisticuffs with top elected Republicans—including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Arizona Senator John McCain—he has placed once deeply red states in the toss up column.
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People can deny this all they want, but the writing is on the wall. The final electoral victory for Trump occurred in the primaries. Americans simply aren't going to take a chance on a maniacal, narcissistic blowhard with limited policy understanding and no concept of governance. Voter anger -- while it may be present in Trump's voter base -- just isn't there for the majority of the electorate.
Do what you must to adjust for a Hillary Clinton presidency, because this much is certain: Barring divine intervention, Trump will lose in November, and badly. The saddest part of all this is... this was at one time a winnable election.
