Trumpworld rages behind the scenes

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

Senior White House and Trump campaign officials are complaining bitterly about poor internal communication, blaming colleagues, pondering what jobs they might try to get next year, and lashing out at their new enemy: Fox News.

The state of play: Aides told Axios they're dreading the prospect of Fox calling Pennsylvania for Joe Biden, which could make the conservative network the first to give Biden 270 electoral votes.

A Trump campaign official said the internal view was that it's essential to keep the race "optically" alive, and that if Fox were to call it, it would severely harm their efforts to support President Trump's (false) claims that he'd already won.

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Trump's advisers remain furious at Fox’s decision desk for its early call of Arizona for Biden, which was seconded by AP. Trump advisers have been unsuccessfully lobbying their contacts at the network to retract the call.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/trump-officials-messaging-voting-2020-election-538dfb80-e9f8-4b8d-8ea7-64262d1b94b1.html

[yardwork]

1. This makes me smile.

[Warpy]

11. Not me, it's going to be a mess out there in some places

because you know how toddlers act when their binkies get taken away from them.

A lot of people who had their whole lives wrapped up in how Dumdum made the libtards cry are going to be acting out and I'm afraid it will last for a while.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. How concerning.

They should write a letter to the Fox ombudsman’s office.

[niyad]

3. Lovely way to start my day!

[Journeyman]

4. Rage, rage, amidst the dying of the blight . . .

[pfitz59]

5. A permanent "red flag" on every staffer resume

Worked for Donald Trump. "I see here that you have extremely poor judgement."

[JohnnyRingo]

6. It's reported that Kush has been calling Murdock for help.

...asking for a retraction on the Fox News report that Biden was pulling ahead.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. It's been reported Murdoch told Donald Trump to just shut up, man

“According to a source, Trump phoned Fox owner Rupert Murdoch to scream about the call and demand a retraction,” said Vanity Fair. “Murdoch refused, and the call stood. Trump and Murdoch have been at odds for months over election coverage. In September, I reported that Trump complained to Murdoch about Fox’s polling. Murdoch has been telling associates for months that Trump would lose the election.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214446958

[True Blue American]

10. Rupert had already said

That Trump would lose.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/22/business/coronavirus-fox-news-lachlan-murdoch.html

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/31/897929181/james-murdoch-quits-family-media-empire-after-disagreements

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. If Kush got his way, what difference would it make?

Fos can say anything it wants. It's not a "news" organization anyway; it's an opinion mill. If it turns out they're wrong, they'll have Hannity mumble something about double-secret reverse psychology tactics.

But, when it turns out they're right, that Biden is President-Eleeeee, President Eeeeee, nope they can't say it.

On the bright side, they'll have Biden to gripe about for the next four years. There's gold in them thar mountains of BS.

[Roy Rolling]

7. Checking Fox News

I wanna see when they call Pennsylvania for Biden.😁

This post will expire as soon as the race is called for Biden. As pleasurable as it was for them, I don’t wanna see them cry on-air as their boy bites the dust. They have a bigger problem now, convincing their viewers that Joe Biden was born in Kenya.

[benld74]

9. Below is the truly scary part to me,,,

A Trump campaign official said the internal view was that it's essential to keep the race "optically" alive, and that if Fox were to call it, it would severely harm their efforts to support President Trump's (false) claims that he'd already won.

They are STILL trying to placate him, even at this point. They are either truly afraid of him, OR truly afraid of what he is capable of doing.
Thanks to the GOP for doing SHIT on holding him back, giving him the false sense of power he thought he has. Thanks to ALL his prior enablers who ran from the sinking mess of the ship, writing books afterwards, instead of speaking out immediately.

Jeez I cannot stand these people. JUST BECAUSE he was POTUS, they felt they needed to do this idiots bidding? THis is what I could never wrap my mind around for the last 4 years.
NO government worker can be HELD to a NDA. NONE.

[LiberalLovinLug]

13. I think they were cheating and stealing votes through hacking machines

Or downright working with the Republican owners of the machines.

And Biden will win because it wasn't quite enough. They couldn't realistically alter that many votes. I think they are having a KKKarl Rove moment where they cannot believe the results. They were assured by Putin and others working for them that it was all taken care of.

No way that Trump came that close with being behind Joe for almost a year in polls now. Never below 5 points. And with Trump's terrible handling of the virus should have put the nail in the coffin.

If it was fair, Joe would have been a runaway winner announced on election night. And we'd have kept the Senate too.

I refuse to believe that so many Americans are that racist or that stupid, no matter how much we may joke about it.