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BlueWavePsych

(2,640 posts)
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 11:12 AM Sep 2020

So long as this campaign is all about Drumpf, he's going to lose.

Trump tax revelations come at precarious moment in his reelection campaign

Indeed, in a Gallup poll from February 2016, Republicans who wanted to see Trump win their party’s nomination cited his experience as a businessman as the second-most important reason they backed him, surpassed only by his status as a nonpolitician and an outsider.

Even today, when asked to explain their support for Trump, voters often point to his success in business as evidence of his acumen. And they often repeat his talking point that he gave up a great deal to serve as president, citing his sacrifice as evidence that he ran for the job not out of self-interest, but because he cares about improving the lives of people like them.

But the image of a man flying around in private jets from one luxury property to another and paying less in taxes than millions of Americans with far more modest lifestyles could prompt a backlash similar to the one 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney faced after he was secretly recorded at a closed-door fundraiser saying that the 47% of Americans who don’t pay income taxes were “dependent upon government” and would never vote for him.

“So long as this campaign is all about Trump,” Conant said, “he’s going to lose.”


https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2020/09/28/trump-tax-revelations-come-at-precarious-moment-in-his-reelection-campaign/

Drumpf is not only broke but is leeching of American taxpayers to fund his luxurious lifestyle. Good job
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So long as this campaign is all about Drumpf, he's going to lose. (Original Post) BlueWavePsych Sep 2020 OP
He thinks of the US treasury as his own personal slush fund. Walleye Sep 2020 #1
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