is Trump trying to lose?

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October 27th, 2016 at 4:25:07 PM permalink
reno
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Trump is no longer pretending to care.

Quote: The Resurgent
The Washington Post reported that Trump has stopped holding fundraisers for Trump Victory, the joint fundraising committee between the Republican Party and the Trump campaign. Steven Mnuchin, the Trump campaign’s finance chairman, said that the last formal fundraiser was held on October 19, the day of the last presidential debate, and that no more events were scheduled. In contrast, the Clinton campaign had 41 events scheduled between publication of the article on October 25 and Election Day.

“We’ve kind of wound down,” Mnuchin said, two full weeks before the election.


The biggest victims of this decision are the GOP Congressmen who need revenue from the Trump Victory Fund.

Quote: The Resurgent
The downside to Trump’s decision to end fundraising events may be the effect on down ballot races. With the probability of a Hillary presidency looming, maintaining a Republican Congress is the key to stopping Hillary’s liberal agenda. Without Trump Victory as a source of funds, many vulnerable Republican incumbents in close races may be ousted by Democrats.

If he isn’t fundraising, what is Trump doing with his time? With the countdown to the election marked in days and Trump trailing in the swing states, Politico reports that he’s getting back to the business of building his brand. On Monday, Trump kicked off a nightly internet newscast that many feel may be a precursor to a Trump network. On Tuesday, Trump held a press event at the Trump National Doral Miami where he bragged that his property was “one of the great places on earth.” On Wednesday, he took time out from the campaign to attend a ribbon-cutting at the new Trump hotel located in the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C.


Wow, he has totally screwed the GOP! I wouldn't label him a "traitor," though, ("saboteur" is a more accurate description) because from the get-go Trump was never a genuine Republican... he just played one on TV. How is it that so many Trump apologists (Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter) continue to be fooled by this fraud? Are they in on the scam?
October 27th, 2016 at 5:47:46 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: reno
How is it that so many Trump apologists (Newt Gingrich, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter) continue to be fooled by this fraud? Are they in on the scam?


I think most of the die-hard Trump supporters haven't been duped as much as they have been revealed. This goes as well for many of his regular supporters (but not all). Remove the fig-leaf of refusal to behave or speak "PC," and it's clear the man is a bigot, and contemptuous of the handicapped and women. And it's not as though he has advocated any brilliant policies, or really much of any policies at all, to overcome any personal failings.

Assuming the first two years of Clinton's term goes well, we'll see many Republicans in the mid-term elections having to defend themselves against attack ads showing them close to Trump.
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
October 27th, 2016 at 5:51:05 PM permalink
Nareed
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BTW, yesterday I saw some pics on FB of one of Trump's sons at a campaign event, posing with a young Hispanic woman wearing a T-shirt saying "Latina Contra Trump."

That's about the level of intelligence of the Trump campaign.
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October 28th, 2016 at 4:59:10 AM permalink
Pacomartin
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Even if you don't speak Spanish and you have a passing familiarity with English, you should know what "contra" means.

contrary (adj.) from Anglo-French contrarie, from Latin contrarius "opposite, opposed," from contra "against" (mid-1300's.)
contradict (v.) "speak against," (1570s)
contraception (n) "against" conception. (1886)

contra- definition: word-forming element meaning "against, in opposition," from Latin adverb and preposition contra
October 28th, 2016 at 9:46:12 AM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: Pacomartin
Even if you don't speak Spanish and you have a passing familiarity with English, you should know what "contra" means.


"It's hard to tell with Trumps." Paraphrasing The Brain.

I wonder whose idea the satanic hand sign was. It's not quite right, as the middle and ring fingers ought to be folded with the thumb across them.
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
October 28th, 2016 at 12:04:18 PM permalink
reno
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It seems far to banal that it required a presidential campaign.


But consider the free publicity that a major party Presidential nominee can get: he's on the front page of almost every newspaper in America almost every day for almost a year. How many billions of dollars in free advertising is that? Even if his vile racist politics only appeal to 10% or 20% of Americans, thats millions of people being reminded daily of how awesome Donald J. Trump is.

The question for Trump is how to parlay that free advertising into revenue for Trump?

Quote: Bloomberg Businessweek
Beginning last November, then ramping up in earnest when Trump became the Republican nominee, Kushner quietly built a sprawling digital fundraising database and social media campaign that’s become the locus of his father-in-law’s presidential bid. Trump’s top advisers won’t concede the possibility of defeat, but they’re candid about the value of what they’ve built even after the returns come in—and about Trump’s desire for influence regardless of outcome.
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Trump won’t come away from the presidential election empty-handed. Although his operation lags previous campaigns in many areas (its ground game, television ad buys, money raised from large donors), it’s excelled at one thing: building an audience. Powered by Project Alamo and data supplied by the RNC and Cambridge Analytica, his team is spending $70 million a month, much of it to cultivate a universe of millions of fervent Trump supporters, many of them reached through Facebook. By Election Day, the campaign expects to have captured 12 million to 14 million e-mail addresses and contact information (including credit card numbers) for 2.5 million small-dollar donors, who together will have ponied up almost $275 million.
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Since Trump paid to build this audience with his own campaign funds, he alone will own it after Nov. 8 and can deploy it to whatever purpose he chooses. He can sell access to other campaigns or use it as the basis for a 2020 presidential run. It could become the audience for a Trump TV network. As Bannon puts it: “Trump is an entrepreneur.”


To clarify: he isn't spending $70 million per month to win the election. No, he's spending $70 million per month to build a database of Facebook fans to sell crap to after the election. (I'm not sure why that would cost $70 million per month, but it must be a fancy database. The best.)

And most importantly Donald will own it, not those gullible fools over at the RNC.
October 28th, 2016 at 12:22:42 PM permalink
TheCesspit
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And he'll probably claim it's worth a billion dollars when boasting about his wealth.
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October 28th, 2016 at 3:31:34 PM permalink
Nareed
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Quote: reno
To clarify: he isn't spending $70 million per month to win the election. No, he's spending $70 million per month to build a database of Facebook fans to sell crap to after the election. (I'm not sure why that would cost $70 million per month, but it must be a fancy database. The best.)


If that's what he's doing, then $70 million per month is how he bankrupts his companies.

He reminds me of Gregor MacGregor, a Scotsman who scammed lots of people. First to get them to help out in Bolivar's wars of independence, then to sell non-existent lands in the Americas. The latter scam actually killed people, but the bastard died of old age and a free man.
Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER
November 3rd, 2016 at 9:54:49 AM permalink
reno
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Quote: Pacomartin
Rupert Murdoch is much wealthier than DJT, and that may be his goal.


Apparently someone is working on a conservative media start-up in Manhattan and employees at Fox News have been contacted for auditions.

Is this mysterious project in any way associated with Donald Trump? Total coincidence?

Quote: Fox News
What's being billed as an "up-and-coming conservative media network currently in development" is now scouring for hosts, reporters and right-leaning, well-spoken panelists, according to a brand new casting notice obtained Wednesday evening by Fox News.

The notice goes on to say the on-air talent the network wants "must be knowledgeable about conservative viewpoints, current events and the presidential election," adding applicants must also "look upscale and intelligent," and should be "outspoken and energetic."

Auditions are being held at an undisclosed New York City studio on Nov. 7...


November 7 is the day before the election.
November 3rd, 2016 at 4:34:35 PM permalink
reno
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The amazing thing is that the White House is actually within reach for Trump. If Trump was focused, disciplined, and genuinely motivated, he could pull it off!

These swing-state numbers change constantly but as I write this, Nate Silver projects that:
Trump has a 51% chance of winning Florida
Trump has a 68% chance of winning Ohio
Trump has a 50% chance of winning North Carolina

Not bad!

At this moment Nate Silver projects Trump is still 26 electoral college votes short of winning. But the point is that Romney lost by 64 electoral college votes, and McCain lost by 97. If Trump wasn't distracted with this media side project, he could beat Hillary. But his priorities are all messed up.

If I was a Republican, I'd be furious he's handing it to Hillary.
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