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DetlefK

(16,423 posts) Fri Apr 5, 2019, 11:47 AM Apr 2019

Vanity Fair: GOP is getting nervous about 2020.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/04/trump-is-waking-up-to-a-world-of-pain?mbid=social_facebook&utm_brand=vf&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR13E68WxwTv3qxXIeqIDwvYsKjpivLHRncy3Qr4qkQ8ohF_ULEmTqOa0y0

The prospect of damaging Mueller revelations is particularly alarming to advisers who worry the president’s 2020 re-election campaign is in “disarray,” according to three Republicans close to the White House. “There’s no brain trust,” a former West Wing official said. Campaign manager Brad Parscale, a social-media consultant with no political experience prior to Trump’s 2016 campaign, is struggling to exert control over the operation and reverse Trump’s upside-down poll numbers with women voters, sources said.

This is not that new. The big republican donors have been complaining for a while now behind closed doors about the empty bluster, lack of discipline and lack of preparation of the reelection-campaign. They are getting nervous.

“The polling is very bad. They’re going to have a big problem with female voters,” a Republican who’s been briefed on the internal numbers said. According to a source, Parscale told Trump over the weekend of March 16 that he could improve his standing with women if he dialed back the tweeting. Trump responded with a tweetstorm the following day that included an attack on the late Senator John McCain and a retweet of a user who had promoted the QAnon conspiracy. “Brad went to him and Trump’s response was like 40 tweets,” the source said.

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Vanity Fair: GOP is getting nervous about 2020. (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2019 OP

Good. Let's crush them like bugs. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2019 #1

"brad went to him and trump's response was like 40 tweets" unblock Apr 2019 #2

That part about Pascale brought a relexive grin to my face as I read it. salin Apr 2019 #11

Of course there is no "brain trust" The Genealogist Apr 2019 #3

I'll bet. Having two one-term Presidents in the last forty years should put to bed forever Aristus Apr 2019 #4

And Carter was one term only because of ronnie's usual GOP treason PSPS Apr 2019 #8

They will rely on Parscale to repeat his social media blitz of 2016 Fiendish Thingy Apr 2019 #5

Fun dayn moyl zu Got's oyem. maxsolomon Apr 2019 #6

I honestly don't think he wants to be re-elected, he wants out and he would love to be the victim in monmouth4 Apr 2019 #7

So what most have Wellstone ruled Apr 2019 #9

Karl Rove is working with Parscale, I have read elsewhere Grasswire2 Apr 2019 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,732 posts)

1. Good. Let's crush them like bugs.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 11:48 AM

Apr 2019

unblock

(52,253 posts)

2. "brad went to him and trump's response was like 40 tweets"

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 11:51 AM

Apr 2019

we joke about how donnie fraud is a lawyer's nightmare client, but we forget that he's also a p.r. person's worst client as well

salin

(48,955 posts)

11. That part about Pascale brought a relexive grin to my face as I read it.

Reply to unblock (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 01:15 PM

Apr 2019

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)

3. Of course there is no "brain trust"

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 11:59 AM

Apr 2019

Because there are no brains.

Aristus

(66,386 posts)

4. I'll bet. Having two one-term Presidents in the last forty years should put to bed forever

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:03 PM

Apr 2019

repuke snarking over the one-term Jimmy Carter.

PSPS

(13,601 posts)

8. And Carter was one term only because of ronnie's usual GOP treason

Reply to Aristus (Reply #4)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:32 PM

Apr 2019

Fiendish Thingy

(15,623 posts)

5. They will rely on Parscale to repeat his social media blitz of 2016

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:05 PM

Apr 2019

Only this time on steroids, and probably lots of assistance from Russia and Saudi Arabia.

maxsolomon

(33,345 posts)

6. Fun dayn moyl zu Got's oyem.

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:11 PM

Apr 2019

I'm not holding any celebrations yet. They have the White House, the Senate, the SCOTUS, AM Radio, Fox, any number of scumbag media consultants, any number of "think tanks", any number of fake non-profits, deep-pocket billionaire assholes, and, finally, Rusher to help them con and bamboozle the empathy-deficient, weak-minded, lazy thinkers among us.

We're busy having a purity contest.

monmouth4

(9,708 posts)

7. I honestly don't think he wants to be re-elected, he wants out and he would love to be the victim in

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:15 PM

Apr 2019

the sick scenario he will cook up as being democratically maligned, etc. This will work in his sick mind.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

9. So what most have

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 12:56 PM

Apr 2019

suspected is now in print. Polling Numbers have been juiced to the up side for Trump.

Noticed this,every single Dem Candidate's crowd size for a Meet and Great has been larger than any during the early 2016 campaign season.

Corporate Media is still connected at the hip with Trump.

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)

10. Karl Rove is working with Parscale, I have read elsewhere

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Apr 5, 2019, 01:00 PM

Apr 2019

Working on the mechanics of the election itself.

Never forget Rove on election night.

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