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brooklynite

(94,745 posts)
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 05:41 PM Dec 2015

‘I Trolled Trump at a Frank Luntz Focus Group’

The Daily Beast:

How do you troll America’s biggest troll?

For Michael Wille, a former Mitt Romney campaign staffer, the opportunity came when he saw an ad on Facebook to get involved with a Donald Trump focus group led by Republican pollster Frank Luntz. Wille lied and listed his first choice for the Republican nomination as Trump, out of a morbid curiosity and a desire to be mischievous.

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“I was there supporting Trump, but trolling everyone at the same time,” Wille said. “I needed to see for sure exactly what the people of our party were thinking about Trump. Now I’m totally convinced there is no way we’re going to win the presidential race… [Trump supporters] are delusional… they’re so pissed off at the establishment they want to send a message no matter what.”

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“I want him to get the nomination to get completely destroyed in the general. The older generation in my party needs to understand we can’t have this pro-war, anti-immigrant nonsense anymore… we need to lose this [election] in order to ever win again,” Wille said. “He needs to get destroyed in order for us to understand the path forward. Hillary is probably going to be the next president, and I don’t like that at all.”
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‘I Trolled Trump at a Frank Luntz Focus Group’ (Original Post) brooklynite Dec 2015 OP
"we can’t have this pro-war, anti-immigrant nonsense anymore" fleur-de-lisa Dec 2015 #1
He seems to be more of a Libertarian than anything else. Xyzse Dec 2015 #2

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
1. "we can’t have this pro-war, anti-immigrant nonsense anymore"
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 05:56 PM
Dec 2015

Makes you wonder why he doesn't switch parties . . .

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)
2. He seems to be more of a Libertarian than anything else.
Mon Dec 14, 2015, 06:04 PM
Dec 2015

While Trump is pure Fascist.

He was also a Romney staffer, I don't see him changing his stripes any time soon.

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