Why Trump’s Campaign Is a Total Disaster

[applegrove]

Why Trump’s Campaign Is a Total Disaster

https://politicalwire.com/2016/06/09/trumps-campaign-is-a-total-disaster/

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Jonathan Chait: “If Donald Trump were an otherwise normal candidate — with a reasonable knowledge of public policy and no pronounced affection for authoritarian rulers or habit of blurting out overtly misogynistic and racist comments — the Republican Party Establishment would still be in complete meltdown right now over his campaign’s political incompetence.”

“Recent reports have uncovered a slew of hair-raising details about the campaign’s amateur/quasi-nonexistent status. Trump is raising nowhere close to the level of money required to run a modern presidential campaign. His campaign staff is skeletal and lacks the ability to coordinate a message, leading to chaotic setpieces where the entire Democratic Party message apparatus is being countered only by Trump’s personal Twitter account. (Sad!) Trump is wedded to bizarre strategic notions like competing in heavily blue states. He is devoting what few resources he does have to hopeless projects like hiring a pollster to help him win New York, where Republican presidential candidates have failed to reach even 40 percent of the vote in decades.”



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[MFM008]

1. He wants it free

Everything..........as usual..

[maryellen99]

2. Is it true that he has no ground game organization at the state level at all? Nt

[C_U_L8R]

3. Trump's a loser.

If you think about it, he's always been a loser.
He games the system well for his own advantage
but nearly every one of his ventures is a disaster.
Trump's a loser and he will continue to lose bigly
simply because that's who he is. A great great loser.

[winstars]

4. Talk about a person WHO WANTS FREE STUFF!!! He is the biggest grifter yet...

[calguy]

5. Don't spread the word about this until after the convention

We don't want the GOP to dump him before he's the official nominee.
The Trump campaign is very good for Democrats all the way down the ballot.
Another nominee, other than Cruzifer, not so much.

[FighttheFuture]

6. Excellent!!! Let's hope it continues just enough not to have him removed for the R ticket!

[gratuitous]

7. Trump is intoxicated by his own expertise

He is convinced that he can run his campaign on the cheap without any of that state-by-state messiness and bother. I will grant that Trump has been quite successful in securing the party nomination for the GOP by using unorthodox methods, but I don't think this will work in the general election.

If Democrats work to get out the vote, state by state, county by county, precinct by precinct, I think 2016 could be a wave year.

[applegrove]

8. I hope you are right. If everyone does their part it can happen.

[Doctor Jack]

9. Here is the best part of the story

Trump’s ally and state campaign co-chair Carl Paladino reveals his two-prong plan to overcome their massive party registration deficit:

They will also rely on conventional get-out-the-vote efforts and blanketing the upstate region with signs and bumper stickers.
"Upstate will give us a wave in this election, and my instruction from HQ is really simple. It's one word: Win," he said. "And that's what we intend to do."

So, prong one: bumper stickers and signs — thousands of them, maybe even millions, so many you cannot walk anywhere in upstate New York without having a Trump sticker get stuck to the bottom of your shoe. The sheer psychological force of this effort will apparently overwhelm the people. And then, prong two: “win.” Previous Republican candidates, Paladino included, have failed badly in statewide elections, a result Paladino apparently attributes to their failures to implement his strategy of trying to win.

Remember Carl Paladino? The crazy tea party candidate for new york governor in 2010 that lost by about 40 points and threatened reporters with baseball bats. If the democratic nominees campaign was in this kind of shape, I would likely be a raging alcoholic right now. The republicans have to be shitting themselves right now. This is going to be bad