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kpete

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Thu Aug 18, 2016, 07:36 AM Aug 2016

How 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, Trump’s chief pollster and a longtime party strategist, sat down with the nominee. The previous week had been a disaster, punctuated by Trump’s 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 won’t win.”

“According to interviews with over a dozen aides involved at various levels of the campaign, Trump’s 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 #1
Hold it, Trump has over a dozen staff? underpants Aug 2016 #2
Prepare for more unhappiness, Donald. tanyev Aug 2016 #3

TreasonousBastard

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1. OK, I hate to do this, but I can't help thinking of the German general staff being aftraid...
Thu Aug 18, 2016, 07:53 AM
Aug 2016

to give Adolph the bad news.

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