Hold on folks. Trump's about to make a comeback.

[underpants]

Just the feeling I'm getting. Frankly we all should know that this will tighten up, it has to. The media is dying for a horse race and Trump is going to do what he has to to give them one.

As much as we want to ridicule what he actually says (and has said) the massses are just going to be told that he's looking "Presidential" and hear only the best 20 seconds of his daily speech. He's going to visit flooded Louisiana which fits perfectly to this new approach.

Has he already made too big an ass of himself for people to take him seriously? We'll see but trust me he's coming back. Just a feeling I get.

BTW -this Iran payment thing is not going to help either. The press is about to unload on President Obama and his approval rating directly affects to election.

Hold on folks, it's about to get rocky.

[femmocrat]

1. It has already started.

The media is drooling at the prospect of a "new and improved" trump. I just hope that Hillary did not peak too soon and it is too late to persuade the voters. People seem to have decided, according to some poll I saw. (sorry, no link)

[Coyotl]

46. Yeah, when he tells African-Americans their schools suck, they got no jobs, ....

The only thing that has actually started is the laugh fest. "What the hell do you have to lose?" Yeah, that's what motivates voters, nothing to lose.

BREYON @Br3yon
So according to Trump, all black Americans live in poverty, go to bad schools, and have no jobs. And tell me again why I should vote 4 him?

Isaiah Thomas ‏@candidateTHOMAS 1 hour ago
Trump to African-American voters: With poverty, bad schools, no jobs, "What the hell do you have to lose?" - if this isn't stereotyping...

[Skidmore]

2. How do we stop it?

Let's get busy and help him trip himself up.

[TeamPooka]

34. GOTV

[lastlib]

68. ^ ^ ^THIS! ^ ^ ^

If we can do a better job of this than the GOPhers, we win. If we don't, we lose. Plain and simple.

[lapfog_1]

3. I agree

he has set the bar so low that now that he "apologized" (for what? and when was there an "I'm sorry"?) and is visiting flooded Louisiana and giving "prompter" speeches... the media will say that he has "turned it around" and the "last reboot worked".

Which is why I just donated $100 to Hillary.

[MohRokTah]

4. And now they are pushing "Clinton has a rare brain disease"

Smelling like 2004 all over again.

Hillary's biggest asset is her intelligence, so they are swiftboating that by giving her a "rare brain disease".

[Democat]

5. The proper attack on that is to find Trump medical problems

Democrats should always hit back twice as hard.

There are pictures of Trump crawling around on the ground. If they want to go to war, Democrats should destroy them in that war.

[napkinz]

10. here ya go ...

[BigDemVoter]

47. Is he drunk and about to vomit?

[tavernier]

50. No. Hunting for truffles.

Snort.

[napkinz]

12. we need to hit Trump on his bogus medical report, the fake letter the he himself may have written!

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028102653

see http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512368812

[JustAnotherGen]

6. Check off the firewalls

Black Americans
Collegiate level of education women

I think those two are safe (I check off both of those boxes). . . so who are the ones in the coalition who Trump Co. might think they can play to weakness with?

[underpants]

7. People can be easily swayed with repetition

It doesn't have to be good advertising (or "news&quot just make it "the thing everyone's doing" and people will get in line.

To me, the question of WHERE is as important as WHO. The right number of people in certain states can have a big impact.

[Orsino]

8. Nope. His entire career is a series of grand, unfulfilled promises...

...of terrific things that never, ever happen.

He's going to bumble on until he can't stand losing this hard, and quit.

[napkinz]

9. yep, the media is pushing the comeback narrative

If you watched the cable news networks last night and this morning, you heard: He's had a good week! He gave three solid speeches! He's back on messsage! He has a new campaign team! He's launching TV ads in the battleground states! The race could tighten!

I created a thread calling on Democrats to be as relentless in attacking Trump as Republicans have been in attacking Hillary:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028108711

[MoonRiver]

11. I don't agree.

He will screw up every possible advantage, real or imagined, he has.

[Bucky]

13. I agree. It's the only move he has left.

Too many powerful people think they can benefit too much from him winning

(or at least doing respectably better than the current trainwreck)

[JCMach1]

14. Just pay attention to the Tweets ... he is already showing signs the pivot is over in 3-2-1

[sofa king]

15. I think it's going to get worse.

Manafort's Friday news-dump departure is exactly what I predicted for the whole campaign last week.

My assumption is that breaking the letter of espionage laws counts a lot more to the FBI than it does to CNN.

What I failed to account for is the unique combination of stubbornness and stupidity that trickles down from the top of the Trump campaign like fuel oil from the Bismarck's hull. Trump is still on the move, for now, but the fleet is closing in on him.

[napkinz]

16. and here you have it ... they're pushing the GREAT COMEBACK!

Red alert, Democrats. Donald Trump might be poised to make a comeback.

By Jonathan Capehart
August 18, 2016

Democrats have reason to be thrilled by the campaign chaos swarming the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. Three different campaign managers in two months? Poll numbers in the toilet? Reliably red states in danger of turning blue? The rending of garments and gnashing of teeth of dyed-in-the-wool Republicans as the party of Reagan sinks inexorably into the party of Trump? The schadenfreude is just too delicious.

But the shoe will be on the other foot if Democrats don’t heed the warning signs I’ve noticed in the past few days.

Hours before news of the change in campaign management was announced, Trump gave a speech in Wisconsin. His pitch to African Americans on crime and jobs was undermined not only by his history of hostility toward them but also by his delivering it in overwhelmingly white West Bend, Wis., which he repeatedly referred to as predominantly black “Milwaukee.” A city literally aflame with tension after a police-involved shooting on Aug. 13.

But as I listened to Trump, I was struck by how he delivered his teleprompter-assisted speech. Gone was the listlessness from previous days. His confidence was back. And that pitch of his had just enough footholds of credibility as it was rooted in traditional law-and-order conservatism the GOP is known for. Still, it was raw.

-snip-

But therein lies the opportunity of the Big Apple billionaire. If he gives more speeches in performance and rhetoric as he did in Wisconsin, dare I say pivot ever so slightly, Trump could give those embarrassed white Republican voters the thinnest of veils they need to vote for him. And that could be all that Trump needs.

read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/08/18/red-alert-democrats-donald-trump-might-be-poised-to-make-a-comeback/

[underpants]

20. There ya go

[NWCorona]

25. And that's from Capehart.

Should give some here pause.

Thanks for the link!

[workinclasszero]

17. Trump's pivot/reset will last till

tomorrow when he opens his pie hole and shit falls out.

Let Trump be Trump I say!

[Blue Idaho]

18. Well lets see...

Paul Manafort has resigned because of his close ties to Russia, Trump has hired a white supremacist as campaign "CEO" whatever the hell that is, and Kellyann Conjob will soon realize that like a drownding man, Trump will take her to the bottom with him.

We still need to fight like hell every day and leave nothing to chance - but Trump is still the bloviating loser he always has been.

[Agschmid]

19. I don't see it.

[Johnny2X2X]

21. Hillary +8 in latest poll

The big polling firms should show her pulling away by even more in the coming week. The state polls have been dramatic in their movement to Clinton, so should the national polls. We'll see when Wapo, WSJ, and FOX polls come out. Should be pushing 10 or better in all big polls.

[rug]

22. They said that about the Battle of the Bulge.

Three weeks later Hitler was in the bunker.

[MoonRiver]

23. Wake me up when he goes on vacation.

[TheBlackAdder]

24. Isn't that what Putin does to him, "make a comeback?"

[Doodley]

26. At some point, Trump will be asked who he is apologizing to and will be given

a list of possibilities. Then he will return to form as an asshole.

[hibbing]

27. Always vigilant and GOTV n/t

[Buckeye_Democrat]

28. As long as he LOOKS Presidential, Chris Matthews will slobber...

... all over him.

[emulatorloo]

40. Matthews does not like Trump. Reason? Trump's birtherism. Trying to make Obama foreign

Brings it up now and again. Finds Trump's birtherism disgusting and un-American.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

41. Well, Matthews has that going for him then.

I'm not very impressed by him on MSNBC overall. If that's going to be the supposed liberal cable channel, he needs to step up his game or retire. He let that new Trump campaign manager roll all over him last night.

He also couldn't praise Dumbya enough during that "Mission Accomplished" photo op.

[emulatorloo]

42. He dismantled a Trump surrogate one night last week for deflecting and not answering the question

Yeah agreed that he is a mixed bag. When on point can tear apart the talking point spewers. When not on point you never know what'll happen

[redstateblues]

53. Mathews wants a horse race. He was drooling all over Trumps "makeover"

He kept repeating that the appeal to AAs was to get back the female suburban vote. That sounds ridiculous to me. I've been a fan of Tweety but he is losing me more everyday. Today was one of his low points for me.

[emulatorloo]

67. I think he's correct. Trump's AA speech designed to "prove" he's not racist.

White Female surburban voters tend to vote Republican, but they have gone to HRC partly because of Trump's racist comments. Same with white college grads. Another group he is struggling with.

[0rganism]

29. we *need* it to tighten up through September

otherwise the RNC might decide their candidate is pure shit puffs and find a way to replace him
sure, they'd still lose, but they'd maintain relevance as a political party
for the complete destruction of the Republican party, we need tRump on that ballot in November

[EL34x4]

65. After the complete destruction of the Republican party

Where do Trump's millions of supporters go? They're not going to turn to dust and vanish into the ether.

[0rganism]

66. them? they're GOP for the long haul

their job is to keep the GOP alive in name only for the next decade. with their "help", the GOP primaries will produce only the crappiest candidates, driving the party further and further into obscurity. eventually, it will dissolve completely, fragmenting into a raftload of fringe white power parties. by that time, the national security and finance-focused Republicans will have joined the Democratic party, and the realignment will be complete, with Democrats left as the dominant mainstream centrist party.

conversely, if tRump is somehow forced off the ticket by the RNC, their support collapses for this election only -- the party nominally saves face and can go back to being a pathway to power for extreme douchebags well into the next century. the realignment will still be pending, but it will be delayed. meanwhile, the alliance of racists and religious fanatics and MIC fatcats persists, along with more of the same horrible-yet-electable candidates we've seen since the '90s. the racists and bigots will be extra ornery, but they'll go along just to have some influence.

by far the best results for the nation are if tRump stays on the ticket and gets thoroughly pounded in November.

[saidsimplesimon]

30. Progressives must stop

claiming victory, the battle is at hand. We will win, if we "stick together" against the forces that try to divide US. These sickos know that their only hope is to "divide and conquer".

[MyNameGoesHere]

31. He's making a comeback because he didn't fling shit today, sort of.

Watching his Detroit speechifying he is still flinging shit. I'm not worried in the least. He's going after AA for votes. It doesn't get any stupider than that.

[MFM008]

32. Fu*k him

2 days are supposed to show us he has had an Ebenezer Scrooge type of transormation.
What happened was they told him if you don't make a radical change BIGLY by labor day your going to lose like Goldwater or Mondale.
Now he might lose like Dukakis.

[The_Casual_Observer]

33. This teleprompter shit is going to become

A joke in a couple of days. The public is stupid but not that stupid.

[ailsagirl]

44. That's a good one!!

Dream on

[BlueStateLib]

45. You have more faith in the american voter than I...

[Vinca]

36. My fear is the "new" Trump will actually manage to attract more dimwits.

I was watching him today in Louisiana and the masses seemed to love him. It made me want to puke.

[yuiyoshida]

37. YOU HAVE TO GO SOME WHERE TO MAKE A COME BACK!

eom!

[GreenEyedLefty]

38. How many comebacks is this now?

Nah, he'll screw up again. He can't help himself.

[BlueStateLib]

39. media pivots on trump

[trof]

43. FEAR NOT! REST EASY!

His two new -hires, Brannon and Conway (sounds like a vaudeville burlesque slapstick act) gives us a brass-bound, copper-riveted, fire-assayed, double-bottom, leak-proof LOCK.
Trust me.
But vote, anyway.

[Dem2]

48. It will be portrayed that way for sure

They won't have me as part of their audience, I'm checking out as a form of protest. I don't need to see this game one more time in my life. I'm more motivated than ever to ensure the Nazi doesn't win and I won't let the media discourage me.

[Avalux]

49. This is the part where the abusive spouse acts nice to mess with their victim's head.

Let's hope the victim has had enough and kicks his ass all the way to Russia.

[Imperialism Inc.]

51. I agree.

He's finally trying to give the press the story line they wanted to write all along; the one they already had written and ready to go. The pivot!

Not to mention he's started running ads and filling their coffers. Giving the gate keepers their cut.

[underpants]

52. $

They love the money.

[vadermike]

54. Lol

Gimme a break so now we will lose because of this !!? GOTV and take nothing for granted

[Maeve]

55. I was going to say I'll worry when he manages to go a week without doing something dumb

And then he goes to Louisiana with Play-doh.......

GOTV, pop some corn and hold on for a ride!

[Demsrule86]

56. The Iran Payment thing is not even true.

and is a rightwing meme. I don't agree. I do not believe it will tighten up. Your concern is duly noted.

[Kilgore]

62. So when does the truth matter in this election?

The electorate for the most part does not seem to care.

[Demsrule86]

64. I don't see this going anywhere.

it has been out for weeks.

[Blue Owl]

57. A combback?

n/t

[Lsantos04]

58. Meh, I doubt there will be a "comeback"

It has been almost a month after the RNC and DNC conventions, and Hillary still maintains a healthy lead over Donald. As Trump has stated countless times before, his pivot will never occur, and his latest commercial, which is nothing but fearmongering about "brown people", is proof of that.
As long as Clinton keeps on pointing out Trump's weaknesses, she'll be fine.

[underthematrix]

59. How we fight back is to keep reminding people he's a racist, a xenophobe, a Russian funded

candidate, mentally unstable, ignorant and unwilling to learn the basics of governing, sexist, a liar, a criminal, a user, a fool, dangerous

[citood]

60. Both candidates have high negative ratings

This almost guarantees it will remain a close race...talk of a landslide doesn't match reality.

[Kilgore]

61. Never ever underestimate Trump

You do so at your own peril

[MFM008]

63. One thing I DO expect RUMP to do

Is step all over his own efforts.
SOMEONE is going to say something he doesn't like and BOOM there it is.
You can put a monkey in a suit and tell us he can be an astronaut
but sooner or later he acts like a monkey again.