The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: Wingnut on August 17, 2016, 05:58:10 pm
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There goes the neighborhood Boy. Trump is back with 80 days to kill.
Donald Trump's decision to depose campaign chief Paul Manafort in favor of two loyalists signals one thing: The Republican presidential nominee's brief flirtation with being a more packaged and conventional candidate is over. Trump wants to win or, more likely, lose on his own terms — by being exactly who he has been throughout his life.
In April, Manafort was brought into a campaign that was flailing as it tried to transition from gritty outsider to presumptive nominee. He replaced Corey Lewandowski, an outspoken advocate of the "let Trump be Trump" strategy. The move was seen at the time as Trump's acknowledgment that the sort of say-anything-at-any-time strategy that had carried him to a shocking primary victory was insufficient for the general election challenge he now faced. It was also regarded as a bow to the power of the Trump children, who had long agitated for Lewandowski to be removed, and an attempt by Trump to reach out to a party establishment he had lambasted during his rapid rise to the Republican nomination.
The pivot that many expected would come with Manafort's hire never really happened. Trump would occasionally pay lip service to the need to unite the party and, yes, would read a speech off a teleprompter from time to time. But, his heart was never in it — and he was terrible about hiding that fact. As the months passed following Manafort's hire and Trump watched his once-beloved poll numbers falter, it became increasingly clear that he was fed up with all of the talk about the need to turn over a new leaf or do anything fundamentally different than he had done while winning the Republican nomination.
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"I am who I am," Trump said. "I've gotten here in a landslide and we'll see what happens."
What that quote — and the subsequent staff moves — should tell you is that Trump thinks he made a mistake in bowing to establishment pressure and bringing in a veteran hand like Manafort to oversee things. Trump sees his current problems in the race as deriving not from being too much of himself but from not being enough of himself.
More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/17/donald-trump-is-going-back-to-being-donald-trump-thats-a-big-problem-for-republicans/
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Giving sanity a try for longer than a couple days might be more wise. But Trump and wisdom are at sharp cross-purposes. The carnival-barking buffoon still thinks he's in the New Hampshire primary.
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landslide?
he won by plurality, not even a majority in the primaries divided by many candidates, that is not even close to being a landslide
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Trump lives in his own little world. Amazing that he has survived this long.
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Giving sanity a try for longer than a couple days might be more wise. But Trump and wisdom are at sharp cross-purposes. The carnival-barking buffoon still thinks he's in the New Hampshire primary.
He tried sanity and did not like it
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He tried sanity and did not like it
Well, at least we know is immune system is working since his body rejected a substance so foreign from his own make-up.
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Well, at least we know is immune system is working since his body rejected a substance so foreign from his own make-up.
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Trump tried it and this was his reaction.
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Trump tried it and this was his reaction.
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Jay Cost @JayCostTWS 1h1 hour ago
Trump has no interest in appealing to the median voter, so he should spend his time prepping the Hannity viewers for his new network.
Jay Cost
@JayCostTWS
He's basically going to run the Sarah Palin grift—only a much, much, much bigger level.
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He tried sanity and did not like it
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Sanity is not for everyone.