THE STENCH OF POLITICAL DEATH IS GROWING AROUND TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN

[Tom of Temecula]

The candidate spends most of his time ranting about his criminal trials. The campaign is struggling to raise money from voters, and there is no swing state operation, as the Trump campaign reeks of political death. The Washington Post reported on the alarm bells being rung by swing state Republicans:

“In order to win close elections in Georgia, you have to have a ground game that emphasizes turning out early votes and absentee votes,” said Cody Hall, a senior adviser to Gov. Brian Kemp (R). “I have seen no evidence of them having any of that. The Trump campaign has a consultant in Georgia, but there is nothing else that I can see. … Everyone is generally concerned. “There is no sign of life,” said Kim Owens, a Republican operative and public relations professional in Arizona. “Especially in a state that Trump lost so closely last time, you’d expect to have more of a presence. I would think, ‘Let’s step it up.’ I think it’s a terrible mistake.” In Michigan, some of the state’s operatives and Republican lawmakers have grown concerned about a lack of an operation there, according to four people familiar with the matter, even as they feel generally bullish about the state.

Trump’s big problem is that much of the money that he is raising is going to pay legal bills. The Trump campaign has tried to spin the situation as the ex-president running a leaner and meaner operation, but since he wasted $1 billion in campaign funds in 2020, Donald Trump has struggled to raise cash.

Trump is increasingly trying to cut deals with potentially wealthy donors like Big Oil, but this is a very different operation from 2016. There is no campaign arm mobilizing potential voters, and since took over the RNC and turned it into his personal operation, there is no party-wide effort in the swing states. It sounds like swing state Republican parties are out there on their own while Biden and the Democrats are building a massive get-out-the-vote operation.

Campaigns that have money troubles and no get-out-the-vote operation tend to underperform the polling and lose. Trump’s campaign reeks of electoral death, and if the situation continues for much longer, the GOP could be looking at another Trump-led loss in 2024.

https://www.politicususa.com/2024/05/10/the-stench-of-political-death-is-growing-around-trumps-candidate.html

[Cha]

1. I like the sound of that. TY

Isn't it time for TSF to to make a Publc Cry Out to Putin to Pour some More Money into his Puppet fund?

[erronis]

46. Russia - if you can hear me. Send dollars - not rubles.

Vlad: Anybody hear anything?

[Attilatheblond]

55. I DON'T like the sound of it. He is taking in $$ but not spending on campaign. Took over RNC, paws on their $$?

Either his puppet masters know they have the means to steal the election already in place, or he's just gonna take the money and run. I fear it is the former rather than the latter.

[sarchasm]

58. This.

My fears are justified.

How does one comfortably solicit, bribe, extort, cash from a special interest, offering a clear quid pro quo, out loud, with no expectation of reprisal?

He knows his chances of prosecution, that the wheels of justice turn slowly enough to get past November, and has no qualms.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Thank You Tom

And none of that post is trumps fault. He only creates good. His campaign is going the way of students eating trump steaks at trump U.

OTH, the Biden campaign is wearing my old ass out with emails. I give them regular hefty donations the old fashioned snail mail way. I chuckle when the emails ask me whether I’m ready to give my first donation. Awesome problem for Dems to have relative to the brilliance of the don.

[MyOwnPeace]

14. Good point regarding the Dem pleas..........

When the news tells you that Biden & Dems are ahead by about 10 to 1 in donations it is hard to 'handle' an e-mail plea that the Dems are facing disaster in fund raising.
Yes, we NEED to support the Dems - but be honest in your requests!

[SweetT]

52. Really?

Wow. Asking for continuing support to prevent the end of American Democracy and the Republic annoys you? Wow. 10 to 1 in funding is not a guarantee when you have the anti-America party, has packed the courts and do not respect the opposition. The party trying to install a dictator and then engage in a pogrom against other Americans means I will keep giving until it hurts.GOTV.

[MyOwnPeace]

59. I wasn't 'annoyed' by asking for continuing support.......

I'm asking for TRUTH! Every report that shows mow much has been taken in shows the Dems ahead by great margins - so do not 'cry' about 'last chance' - 'we're falling behind' - when it is not true!
I DO continue to support - and make donations.
Just tell me the truth..........

[AZ8theist]

67. I understood your point....

My phone is clogged with those emails. Some from candidates I've never heard of. But realize most of those emails are boilerplate stuff sent out on huge mailing lists tugging at your sympathy to "act now".

Don't let it bother you. It's just typical political campaigning.

[thucythucy]

60. I agree.

I've contributed and will contribute again, but I also get several emails a day.

It doesn't bother me at all, not when I consider what the stakes are.

Also, if no one else has said it yet: welcome to DU!

[COL Mustard]

76. I've donated, and may donate again

But it's small dollars. My big thing is that I'll vote for Biden/Harris (again) and the other Democrats on the ticket. That's the most I can do. (The Hatch Act prohibits me from fundraising and my day job keeps me pretty busy.)

[msongs]

3. he expects the locals and state level to pay for everything and do all the work. nt

[whopis01]

10. And for down ballot candidates to pay him.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-demands-cut-donations-down-ballot-republicans-1235006262/amp/

[MyOwnPeace]

16. Yeah, that sounds like 'Mob Boss' talk........

"Hey! You wanna' hang wit me - pay up!"

[mopinko]

4. it is just not possible for him to win.

we know the polls r off by at least 10pts. he shouldnt b getting 10 votes. but there’s no way he gets more than his hard core, complete lunatic base. that’s about 30%.

[MyOwnPeace]

18. Thank you for stating that!

With ALL of the ugly stuff that's come out about tRump since 2020 AND the great things that Joe has done while fighting a difficult congress, there is NO WAY that I can figure how Joe has LOST votes from 2020 and IQ45 has GAINED votes.
AIN'T NO F**KING WAY!!!!!

[mopinko]

34. of all the bogus polling, the "he's losing xyz voters"

r the most bogus. chimeras. if there is 1 actual black joe voter that’s switching, it’s cuz they had a bad head injury in the last 3 yrs.

[erronis]

47. Careful. That's almost the line that tfg used in 2020

"There's no way Joe can lose in 2024. It would have to be stolen."

[DiverDave]

62. 💯

For trump to win, they will HAVE to steal it.
I'm looking forward to a blue sweep.
But then, of course, the rethugs will screech that it was stolen.

[ret5hd]

5. his entire strategy is violence.

he knows he is very unlikely (hey, let’s not let our guard down) he will win. he’s betting everything on chaos and violence.

[returnee]

40. Agreed.

It occurs to me this is why he and Tim Scott keep responding negatively to questions about accepting the vote—the vote doesn’t matter. What matters is declaring the election rigged and also repub-controlled State govt controlling how the elections are run. It’s the “It’s unfair because I say it is” ruse. This has always been my fear. I can’t see TSF getting more votes than Biden, but voter suppression, intimidation, state election laws, repub governors and atty generals, etc, can cause chaos. It’s going to rough. Bank on it.

[erronis]

48. Or like putin's hero said - it's not who votes, it's who gets to count the votes.

Hard to imagine that a US presidential candidate is following the lead of the USSR.

[niyad]

6. If only it were more than merely metaphoric. . .

[Mr.Bill]

7. And if things go like they have in past campaigns,

The news networks will give him a billion dollars of free air time while saying Biden is too old for the job.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. Exactly

I remember when we had to listen to his CACA every single night for an hour. Supposedly about Covid.....He would talk to two minutes about Covid and then the net works would let him roll on for the rest of the hour with his self aggrandizing bull shit......
That went on for seemingly months........

[NJCher]

27. But the context is so bad

Nobody wants to see their candidate standing on the courthouse steps, a few short weeks from a prison sentence.

They do those man on the street interviews and what I see are ignorant guys saying the trial is a sham, but the women say they are changing their vote. Quantitative research supports this.

[Mr.Bill]

29. I won't argue with you on that.

We all hope you're right.

[NJCher]

30. Hey, it's just a fact

Trump thinks he’s being smart but he’s really just showing the world he’s Loserman.

[oasis]

8. Down, down, down, in a circular

motion goes the orange turd.
Didn't someone predict this would be the outcome?

[NJCher]

28. Yeah,

Me.

[0rganism]

9. I'd wait to see its lifeless unbreathing body before popping the champagne and blowing the party horns...

The GOP may have a widespread governance credibility issue, but that doesn't hurt TSF as credible governing isn't what he offers anyway.

[Aussie105]

11. Standard procedure.

When any crime gang boss gets hauled into court to answer for his crimes, and starts to bleat like TSF is doing . . .

. . . his followers tend to lose interest. Look the other way, close their wallets, disavow any previous connection.

But TSF obviously isn't a student of history.

[mopinko]

35. he'a a loser now.

his whole appeal was what a winner he was. now anyone who isnt brain dead knows that was never true. and that none of these cases r, in fact, hoaxes.

[aggiesal]

12. It's so bad that Pendejo45 is asking for a cut from candidates ...

Trump demands 5% cut from GOP candidates who use his 'name, image and likeness' in ads

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/17/donald-trump-demands-5-from-gop-candidates-who-use-his-nil-in-ads/73362200007/

So it's even less money at the local level.

[NBachers]

13. Cue the intro to AC/DC's Hells Bells

[calimary]

15. Oh I hope so!!!

Still, it's a long way til November, and anything (bad) could happen.

We're still gonna have to work our tails off, but I'm ready and eager to do just that.

[peggysue2]

17. The stench of electoral death, you say?

Make it so, friend. Make it so.

There has been a shift in the wind. The MAGA crew have become far more shrill and crazy, as in completely nuts. There’s a desperation to it. For all the chest pounding, the trend lines are bending towards Biden & the democracy coalition. We still have months to go but the political winds are different now.

Make it so! 😊

[ITAL]

19. I feel like I read similar stories in 2016

Not 2020 - Trump seemed to have a decent staff in various swing states at the time. But in 2016, I swear there was all sorts of talk/chatter about next to no Trump investment in getting out the vote.

[Traurigkeit]

22. didn't have to, the MainStream Media was doing it for free

[ITAL]

36. Well

The angle at the time was that it was his online presence, not MSM.

[Traurigkeit]

51. it was all MSM. news, radio, TV, magazines.. all done for free in 2015 and 2016....

[ITAL]

53. I'm saying

People stated it was his online ads, etc. that got him the votes given that many/most of his supporters don't follow MSM anyway.

[erronis]

63. Don't you think that a lot of external entities were pumping (dis/mis)information into the stream?

When the USSR started to realize they may have a horse in the race (dopey and doped), and the Kochs/Mercers/Thiels thought they could invest a few millions for a fantastic ROI, then the dump's world changed. He was out of control of the flow of this information and probably out of the flow of directing the millions to pockets.

[FakeNoose]

64. In retrospect, we can absolutely see that

But at the time, when Chump's first campaign was still fresh ... it seemed like he had captured people's hearts and minds. Now we know better, it was all cynical manipulation and some of it was Russian influencing. (They weren't very good at it either, but few noticed at the time.)

[kcr]

89. Not to mention the non-stop bashing of Clinton from both sides

[Demsrule86]

43. No one did that...because. We have no primary this year. And there was no organized opposition who favored another

candidate. Also, Hillary had been accused criminally...although she was innocent. And just weeks before the election the Justice Department violated their own rules by publicly announcing more investigation. In addition, Trump sweet-talked the Mid West into believing he would restore manufacturing...something Biden is actually doing, and of course, Trump did no such thing.

It didn't help that NAFTA became an issue and even though Hillary had nothing to do with it, she was blamed. It also didn't help that she was forced to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a member of President Obama's candidate. I was against the PPP but it would never affect my vote. It should never have been brought up during an election year or ever if you ask me. And Roe hadn't fallen. This is an election like no other, and I believe Trump will lose badly.

[ITAL]

45. I'm talking about stories regarding Trump's lack of investment in GOTV efforts

A quick search I did found this one from 2016 talking about it and how it worried GOP insiders.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/12/yes-mr-trump-you-do-need-a-get-out-the-vote-effort/

[Demsrule86]

86. I wouldn't worry about it...this is a way different election...Biden won't get scewed like Hillary did a couple of weeks

before the election...and Roe Roe your vote. I honestly think his fascist bullshit will scare voters too...and Roe Roe your vote.

[ZonkerHarris]

20. His plan is for GOP State legislatures to steal it for him.

[Haggard Celine]

68. It looks like that.

It's going to get very nasty this year. I thought it was going to be that way last time, but this time chances are that there will be a big mess. And I think it'll probably begin in Chicago, if we're not careful.

[Traurigkeit]

21. TSF doesn't believe in Mailed Votes or Early Voting, so why should it spend its money on a ground game?

[dchill]

24. No worries - they're planning on strong...

...arming it. All the MAGAs will be on board with that.

[DemocraticPatriot]

25. Part of that Washington Post article you quoted from, details that Trump plans to

depend upon third-party groups supported by 'dark money' who plan to use paid canvassers for GOTV efforts...

As such, I don't think we can totally depend upon the pro-trumpers being a total "no-show" in the ground game---
but I'm hopeful that our efforts will prove better than theirs...

Still, it is not good for him that his own campaign is basically doing nothing at this point,
but there's a lot of pro-fascist billionaires out there who could fund such paid GOTV efforts...

Clearly, the Re-Elect President Biden campaign is far superior to any pro-Trump efforts that we can SEE, at this point...

[RandySF]

26. No

Assume it's very much alive.

[Hekate]

32. GOTV, after all

[Hekate]

31. This is incredibly heartening news. Keep it up, TSF!

[meadowlander]

33. Winning at the polls is so 2012.

Trump doesn't see the point of spending money to try to win votes when he knows he can corrupt the courts and threaten political violence.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

37. The main purpose of the Biden-Harris campaign....KICK A MAN WHEN HE"S DOWN!

As they are setting up campaign offices in states that Biden won and then some.

Having presence in those states is money well spent to get the voting electorate involved. Democrats have winning issues popular with the voters....Abortion and Reproductive Rights, growing Democracy, Student Loan forgiveness, Jobs, Higher Wages, etc. Kitchen table issues that hit home with voters. Democrats running for office are getting the message out.

What do the Republicans have going for them? TAKING AWAY everything we hold dear as a Nation, a people. NOT a winning strategy.

[TBF]

38. The downside, Tom, is that we still have 6 months.

That's enough time to rehab him (assuming he's not at Rikers!) and/or replace him.

The real crime this week was the documents case being pushed off indefinitely.

[Kid Berwyn]

39. So that's why they're calling Manafort.

“Russia if you’re listening…”

[Traurigkeit]

57. Putin dumped Manafort once he got caught

[Kid Berwyn]

79. The traitor stepped down from his recent RNC gig today.

How Paul Manafort Tried to Make Money With a Project Supposedly Tied to the Chinese Regime

Read the confidential memo he wrote about the deal.

by David Corn
Mother Jones, May 10, 2024

In March, the politerati were atwitter over what appeared major news: Longtime political operator, lobbyist, wheeler-dealer, and (pardoned) felon Paul Manafort was in talks to join Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. This seemed an odd move, given all of Manafort’s schemings over the years. A more recent Manafort business venture—unknown to the public—raises further questions about him and his attempt to return to the Trump fold. According to documents obtained by Mother Jones—including a memo written by Manafort—two years ago, Manafort was trying to orchestrate a $250 million deal to create a streaming service in China in a project that he asserted was blessed by the Chinese government and that was partnering with a Chinese telecommunications firm sanctioned by the US government.

On Friday morning, the Washington Post, which obtained the same documents, broke the news of Manafort’s involvement in this endeavor.

Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager for part of 2016—until Trump dumped him after allegations emerged that Manafort had pocketed $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments a few years earlier from a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. (His lawyer denied he had received this money.) Two years later, as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal, Manafort was found guilty of and pleaded guilty to assorted financial crimes related to his consulting work in Ukraine, including bank fraud and conspiring to defraud the United States. He was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and sent off to the hoosegow. (He was released to home confinement during the Covid pandemic.) In 2020, a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee declared Manafort a “grave counterintelligence threat,” revealing that during the 2016 race he had repeatedly passed Trump campaign inside information to a former business associate who was a “Russian intelligence officer” and a “Kremlin agent.” In his final weeks in the White House, Trump pardoned Manafort.

In the years since Trump cleaned his slate, Manafort has mostly maintained a low public profile. During part of that stretch, he privately endeavored to facilitate a huge deal in China. Emails and memos show that in May 2022 Manafort was working with a privately-held Hong Kong-based company called Standard Huaxia Limited to set up a new streaming company in China dubbed Doorways. Manafort and his colleagues were looking to raise an initial $25 million for the project that Manafort noted was seeking $250 million.

Snip…

This memo stated the “Chinese Govt has agreed to endorse and support the development of Doorways in a variety of ways with the plan to take the company public within 18 months from launch,” and it maintained, “Doorways will be the first [joint venture] Chinese-American company to be involved in ownership and operation of a major internet vehicle in China.”

Continues…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/paul-manafort-china-trump-doorways/

Still weaseling to make money for the vilest, Manafort will find a way to crawl back into his pardoner’s pocket.

[ismnotwasm]

41. What a beautiful scent

“Trumps political Death” would be an amazing candle scent

[dalton99a]

42. It's all good. Stay the course. Let Trump be Trump.

[WiVoter]

44. I Wonder If The Cult Just Thinks

the orange one will steal it, so they don’t need to worry too much about actually voting?

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

88. Like some Ds in 2016. Staying home or protest voting got us screwed, so turnabout? n/t

[republianmushroom]

49. The death toll can not come quick enough and then a wooden stake needs to be drive.

[Initech]

50. Gee, who would have thought that only speaking to your bubble is not how you win?

[FalloutShelter]

54. The parasite is killing the host.

SHOCKER!

Ps: RNC...WTF? What did you think would happen when you let Trump stick a hose in the gas tank?

[Traurigkeit]

56. Nice to know The Republican Party will join the dust bin of history

[Ping Tung]

61. The same stench is apparent around the repug party.

They're already blaming each other as traitors, rhinos, Democrats in disguise, cowards, Russian, Ukrainian, Iranian, Palestinian, and Chinese plants.

Not to mention how their Ultra, RW, Evangelicals, are swearing to never vote for anyone who demand the death penalty for abortionists or people who use the services of abortionists, or people who assist women to have abortions.

It's downright inspiring to watch the True Believers turn their once slightly respectable party over to the likes of Trump, MTG, Kristi Noem,, Matt Gaetz, and other obvious misfits, criminals, and blockheads.

After this year, they'll be spending more yeas trying to decide who's the new star by continuing to stab each other with dogma and threats.

[FakeNoose]

65. This is happening because they know Chump is going to lose

... and they also know he's a terrible candidate. But still they're unwilling to consider anyone else.
The entire Party is in a downward spiral. Fuck 'em, I don't care. They absolutely deserve this.

[bucolic_frolic]

66. Time is their biggest but dwindling asset

Takes more than a few weeks to scale up. Resources, key people, advertising are not always available. Maybe Trump thinks it's 2016? I mean here comes Manafort.

[Martin68]

69. I'm not sure Big Oil is stupid enough to public to take Trump's bait after it was state in such an openly

public (and illegal) way. I'd say it was a petty stupid move on Trump's part.

[SWBTATTReg]

70. A loser. Everyone runs away from a loser. I love it, everyone is starting to see (tRUMP's lackeys) tRUMP's failings

right in the open, and easy to see by everyone. Moron doesn't know how to run anything, other than his fat mouth.

[Torchlight]

71. It does seem man yof his flock are losing enthusiasm for the guy

and those sticking around are having a harder and harder time pretending this isn't all that bad for him. I'm guessing a few emotional crackups over this long, hot summer will push him firmly into the marginalized store-brand shelves of the collective nation by the end of the year.

[et tu]

72. and d45 hasn't even selected

a vp- who d45 chooses will also be a factor~
love that coriolis effect, down the drain.

[GenThePerservering]

73. Complacency is death

no matter what, we work like we're 15 points down in the middle of the 4th quarter.

[COL Mustard]

74. Don't underestimate the threat.

Sure, x45 is wounded politically, and he's severely damaged by the ongoing criminal trial. But even if he's convicted, he's still a danger. People get bitten by dead snakes.

[bucolic_frolic]

77. He has no intention of winning it fair and square? Who could guess.

The purpose after all is not to win, it's to destroy elections once and for all. So you plan to lose, then you riot, litigate, rebel, revolt. I think the trajectory is clear from past events.

[OldBoss]

75. Part of me thinks ...

He doesn’t care if he wins or loses. Maybe he thinks there’s no chance of losing so he doesn’t even consider it. Or if he loses he’s still got his microphone and millions of dupes to continue to shake down. Or if he loses he’s gonna stoke riots and violence and somehow that gets him back in ?? And I doubt he believes he’ll ever spend a nano-second in jail. All friggin’ crazy ideas but he’s friggin’ batshit crazy. Maybe he has stage 4 metastatic pancreatic cancer and knows he has limited time (a boy can dream).

[Traildogbob]

78. The billion dollar bribe

He asked from oil expects last week will go far.
And those execs will make back every dime when they start price gauging pre election to help trump and give him another lie to rant about.

[Evolve Dammit]

80. let us hope he fades away, one way or another. He is a true sociopath and I will revel in no longer hearing the name.

[Chainfire]

81. The big money people who fear Democracy and Democrats will come to his rescue.

By October, gasoline will be $6.00 a gallon, unemployment will be up, the market will be down , and the TV will be full of "Look at what Biden has done to us; we told you! " Don't underestimate the power of big money to manipulate the economy for their own purposes.

The Republican god will probably call down fires, hurricanes, famine and locust on us too, and of course it will be all Joe's fault.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

82. The words from 'Starway To Heaven ''Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings" sure apply here!

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[Blue Idaho]

83. TSFs funds not going to legal bills

Are going into his back pocket. Donald is a greedy bastard.

[lindysalsagal]

84. Glad to hear GA and Michigan have no ground game

[Conjuay]

85. You can say that

But the crowd at Wild Wood NJ seems not to notice the stench.
That was a big crowd...

[TeamProg]

87. Best Stench ever! People always say he has the best stench ever! That's what they're

saying. Like nothing you’ve ever heard before. It’s amazing really when you think about it. Bing bing Boing! zxbbhhzzzx urh urh It’s horrible what they’re doing by the way.