There Is No Trump Campaign

[Zorro]

As Donald Trump’s various fantasy goals go, winning New York in November doesn’t even top the list—it lags behind building an enormous, Mexico-paid wall on the border, deporting more than 11 million people, and winning California in the general. Still, the idea of an Empire State win is outlandish.

New York hasn’t voted for a Republican presidential contender since 1984, but then again every state save one went GOP that year. Democrats have a more than 3-million-person lead in voter registration, 5.8 million to 2.7 million. President Obama won more than 63 percent of the vote in 2012, besting his 2008 total. Hillary Clinton leads Trump by around 20 points in polling, although it’s very early.

But not only has Trump set his sights on winning his home state, he’s also hired a pollster to assist him. Not just any pollster: He’s reportedly hired John McLaughlin, infamous for working on Eric Cantor’s primary campaign in 2014, when the then-House majority leader lost to upstart Dave Brat. McLaughlin’s internal polling heading into the race showed Cantor leading by 34 points. National Republicans warned other candidates away from using McLaughlin.

Even better, Trump was introduced to McLaughlin by Dick Morris, the one-time Clinton consigliere-turned-professional crank. (Morris recently became chief political correspondent for the Trump-aligned tabloid National Enquirer, leading The Hill to finally drop his column. New York reports that the Trump campaign is in talks to hire Morris, which would fit with its focus on ’90s Clinton scandals, though the Trump team denies it.) Trump’s New York co-chair is baseball-bat-brandishing Buffalo businessman Carl Paladino, who tells CNN, “Upstate will give us a wave in this election, and my instruction from HQ is really simple. It's one word: Win.” If anyone knows about winning statewide elections in New York, it’s Paladino, who lost the 2010 gubernatorial race to Andrew Cuomo by 29.5 points.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/there-is-no-trump-campaign/486380/

Go Donald Go!

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. He has the wife On the right and the daughter

On the left. That's all he thinks he needs.

He isn't going to waste any of his money on this.

[PJMcK]

2. Fantastic article

Thanks for posting the link, Zorro. It demonstrates, once again, the complete fraud known as Donald Trump.

[Sinistrous]

3. Carl Paladino is a slug that slimes everything he touches.

He's a perfect partner for trump.

[Logical]

4. My worry is tgat they will replace him. Nt

[WhaTHellsgoingonhere]

5. Yeah, I think people have totally minimized this because he was able to beat a bunch of stooges in a

*the Angry White Male primary.

Another point that isn't talked about is that it's easy to gain momentum ridiculing 16 bozos who bow out one at a time than to have to face one person continuously for 6 months. That's a big deal.

[titaniumsalute]

6. It's June

I have no idea, even if they started hiring like mad men right now to ramp up a campaign, how'd they ever organize it. These things are weird, massive, machines that take some real brains and know-how to organize. Good candidates hire people so they do not have to micromanage. Trump is a complete control freak and micromanager. Do you really think he'd listen to campaign managers if he thinks 180 on a certain topic? No way. Plus you have Trumps "shoot off at the mouth" problem. He says whatever/whenever he wants. That is a Communications nightmare because they cannot control a message.

[HereSince1628]

7. It's June, a year later and I still am not sure Trump is serious

It still feels like a demonstration project intended to reveal how a political system based on deceptive marketing can be dominated by one of the nation's leading deceptive marketeers.

Every time I watch or read a story on Trump I feel the invisible hand pulling my leg.

[titaniumsalute]

9. I'm mixed

I'm 50% with you. But I'm also 50% in the camp of Trump's ego is so uuuuuge that he really has come to realize he loves the massive crowds cheering his name.

[HereSince1628]

10. Yes, I do believe Trump loves the crowds cheering him on,

but IMO that's a trait politicians, professors, and preachers all share. Standing in front of people sort of requires a personality that finds the interaction rewarding. It's also pretty common in people who hawk trade goods.

What imo is different than people who provide legitimate services by speaking in front of people is that Trump is selling snake oil and he not only knows it, he's damned proud of it. He knows he's a master at it. ShamWOW! OxyKleen! Make America Great!!

And I have to agree with him on that point. Anyone who can lead companies into blazing bankruptcies the way he does and still find suckers/investors who'll back him with millions is good at it.

[FSogol]

8. LOL, To Trump: more dollars equals more value. So, he is unable to tell good consultants from bad

ones. He's partially assembled a team of political losers, toe suckers, and sleazy misfits. The Democrats will clean his clock.

[Gothmog]

11. Trump has no campaign staff and it will kill him in November