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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumNeedy. Whining. Sleepless. Inside the Trump Campaign's final hours!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0....Mr. Trumps campaign is no longer making headlines with embarrassing staff shake-ups. But that has left him with a band of squabbling and unfireable advisers, with confusing roles and an inability to sign off on basic tasks. A plan to encourage early voting in Florida went unapproved for weeks.
The result is chaotic. Advisers cut loose from the campaign months ago, like Corey Lewandowski, still talk to the candidate frequently, offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. Mr. Trump, who does not use a computer, rails against the campaigns expenditure of tens of millions on digital ads, skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect....
Many Republicans decided that Mr. Trumps already shaky campaign was over. Some despondent young staff members at the Republican National Committee on Capitol Hill, who usually work late into the night in the final stretches of a campaign, took to leaving their desks early, in time for happy hour at bars. They complained that Mr. Trump had not just lost the election but was dragging down House and Senate candidates, dooming the entire party.
....As the aides agonized over which words to feed into the teleprompter, they become so engrossed that a hot light set up next to the machine caused Mr. Bannons Kuhl hiking pants to begin smoldering....And they know that his chances of winning the election are iffy: Perhaps their best hope, the F.B.I. inquiry into Mrs. Clintons email server, fizzled on Sunday with no charges or revelations. ....
The result is chaotic. Advisers cut loose from the campaign months ago, like Corey Lewandowski, still talk to the candidate frequently, offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. Mr. Trump, who does not use a computer, rails against the campaigns expenditure of tens of millions on digital ads, skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect....
Many Republicans decided that Mr. Trumps already shaky campaign was over. Some despondent young staff members at the Republican National Committee on Capitol Hill, who usually work late into the night in the final stretches of a campaign, took to leaving their desks early, in time for happy hour at bars. They complained that Mr. Trump had not just lost the election but was dragging down House and Senate candidates, dooming the entire party.
....As the aides agonized over which words to feed into the teleprompter, they become so engrossed that a hot light set up next to the machine caused Mr. Bannons Kuhl hiking pants to begin smoldering....And they know that his chances of winning the election are iffy: Perhaps their best hope, the F.B.I. inquiry into Mrs. Clintons email server, fizzled on Sunday with no charges or revelations. ....
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Needy. Whining. Sleepless. Inside the Trump Campaign's final hours!!! (Original Post)
MADem
Nov 2016
OP
He's about to transition from the campaign trail to the Kübler-Ross curve
BeyondGeography
Nov 2016
#6
Great catch- you should absolutely make this an OP and maybe get it in Twitter
bettyellen
Nov 2016
#15
central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)1. Kelly Ann's horrible end
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|MADem
(135,425 posts)5. Her horrible end will come when she realizes Trump stiffs her on her
paycheck for the work AND polling she has done.
Cha
(297,655 posts)2. Just like the gd admin would be if his fans had their way.
Mahalo, MADem!
This is delicious.
The result is chaotic. Advisers cut loose from the campaign months ago, like Corey Lewandowski, still talk to the candidate frequently, offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. Mr. Trump, who does not use a computer, rails against the campaigns expenditure of tens of millions on digital ads, skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect....
And, that asshole works for cnn pushing the propaganda
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)3. Incompetence in running a campaign
Is the harbinger of a Trump presidency.
Let's deliver the following headline on Wednesday morning:
"MR. TRUMP - YOU'RE FIRED"
CanisCrocinus
(109 posts)4. hot light
a hot light set up next to the machine caused Mr. Bannons Kuhl hiking pants to begin smoldering....
Liar liar pants on fire!
MADem
(135,425 posts)12. LOL!!!!!!! nt
BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)6. He's about to transition from the campaign trail to the Kübler-Ross curve
Won't be pretty for anyone.
MADem
(135,425 posts)16. I wonder what will happen when he gets his twitter back!!!!!! :P nt
Hekate
(90,793 posts)7. Trump sounds insane. Title of post-election book: The Madness of King Donald.
WTH do his handlers think they are actually going to do with him in the White House?
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)8. Revenge! One of his hobbies!
The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully and often counterproductively savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a super PAC with vengeance as its core mission.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Not a wise person at all!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)17. huh? he won't fund it...may get other peoples money
sheshe2
(83,898 posts)9. Interesting choice of editing by the NY times.
We get a crotch shot of the Donald. I tell ya it ain't pretty.
regnaD kciN
(26,045 posts)10. One interesting detail no one has noticed…
On Oct. 23, he learned that an ABC News poll showed him trailing Mrs. Clinton by 12 points. He lashed out, becoming so agitated that his aides planned to confront the network about its calculations and accuse ABC of bias, according to internal emails.
Do they think Republicans and Trump supporters are not going to vote? one of Mr. Trumps pollsters, John McLaughlin, wrote to the group. Or is this an intentional effort to suppress Trump turnout?
They pressed the network on its methods, but other polls delivered similarly grim news.
Do they think Republicans and Trump supporters are not going to vote? one of Mr. Trumps pollsters, John McLaughlin, wrote to the group. Or is this an intentional effort to suppress Trump turnout?
They pressed the network on its methods, but other polls delivered similarly grim news.
"Pressed the network on its methods" and, over the course of the next week, ABC changed its demographic formula so that older white males were to make up a greater percentage of the electorate than they had been in a dozen years. Using the new formula, the next run of the poll gave Trump a 1% lead -- thus fueling the narrative that the FBI revelation had resulted in a "Trump surge," a narrative which dominated the campaign's final ten days.
MADem
(135,425 posts)13. You know who else needs to be put on trial?
All those tool-time talking heads....
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)15. Great catch- you should absolutely make this an OP and maybe get it in Twitter