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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Trump Campaign Learned It Was Losing: "If you have another week like the last one-you won’t win"
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The campaign is feeling comfortable with the state of the race, Manafort told a TV interviewer But in private, the top brass of the Trump campaign was growing increasingly alarmed at the dire numbers they were seeing and aides knew they had to confront their boss with the truth. On Aug. 9, Tony Fabrizio, Trumps chief pollster and a longtime party strategist, sat down with the nominee. The previous week had been a disaster, punctuated by Trumps damaging confrontation with a Gold Star family. Fabrizio, who was joined by Manafort deputy Rick Gates, had just completed a fresh batch of polling and had an urgent message for the candidate: If you have another week like the last one, you wont win.
According to interviews with over a dozen aides involved at various levels of the campaign, Trumps team had already come to recognize the peril they faced.
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How Trump Campaign Learned It Was Losing: "If you have another week like the last one-you won’t win" (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2016
OP
OK, I hate to do this, but I can't help thinking of the German general staff being aftraid...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2016
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. OK, I hate to do this, but I can't help thinking of the German general staff being aftraid...
to give Adolph the bad news.
underpants
(182,279 posts)2. Hold it, Trump has over a dozen staff?
Who knew?
tanyev
(42,360 posts)3. Prepare for more unhappiness, Donald.