Is Trump throwing the election?

[yellowcanine]

It sure looks like it. Either that or the most gigantic choke ever.

[Madam45for2923]

1. What you mean?

[yellowcanine]

3. Deliberately trying to lose.

[unblock]

2. That would imply he's capable of winning

Assuming facts not in evidence

[blm]

4. he doesn't want to be president - he wants to tap into the wasteland of the GOP and use them as

an easy cash cow for the rest of his years. Trump TV

He knows there is a sucker born every minute and they are dying to spend their money on a charlatan that will tell them how smart they are. GOP the Party of Dumbass.

[saltpoint]

5. It looks to us as if he must be, but I think

it looks to him as if he's gaining traction by slut-shaming Ms. Machado and otherwise acting like a jackass.

What most school kids would understand as aberrational behavior, Trump thinks is effective.

It's possible his campaign team has tried to set limits, but Trump clearly isn't interested in that, because he's as much of a jackass now than he ever was, and he was always a jackass.

[kimbutgar]

6. No he wants to make money off being president.

And his signature legislation will be repealing the estate tax on rich people.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Throwing it? That would require strategy. . . . nt

[sailfla]

8. i think if he knows he will lose, he'll find a way to get out before it happens

[saltpoint]

9. I'm guessing Reince Preibus might

not be in the best of moods this weekend.

Call it a hunch.

[Demsrule86]

10. No, he is just a bad guy and a bad candidate.

The campaign has revealed who he is...bigot and really a sick man.

[Iliyah]

11. Being President of the "free" world's unlimited $$ resources

Cha-ching

[mucifer]

12. He is a narcissist. He wants to be president.

[Third Doctor]

13. No. He's just a very bad candidate and man.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. He is milking the media attention

to keep his "Trump brand" out there. THAT is his goal. It's been a year long free ride to parlay his junk. The ones who are freaking out the most are his groupies who have staked everything they have on him so they can get choice positions in an administration - and mainly because he is who he is and what he is. He will never change his spots, and there's nothing they can do but watch in horror.

[Mz Pip]

15. He wants to win

But he will settle for creating his own media empire with the help of Ailes and Bannon if he loses.

I doubt initially he thought he'd get this far but now that he has his ego wants it bigly.

[uponit7771]

16. If not then its time for the M$M to start calling him Palin level stupid, he's disaster

[UMTerp01]

17. Yet he's still relatively close in the polls

Closer than he should be because of how divided this country is. He wasn't joking when he said he could shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue and not lose supporters. They do not care about any of this. He's dog whistling taking America back to where Black and Brown people have less rights and less influence and most of his supporters want to preserve White supremacy and therefore it doesn't matter what he does. They will continue to support him and thus have him in the 40% + support range. Its ridiculous and he's already laid the seeds for rigging if Hillary wins so that its going to be even more divided going forward. This is really the worst campaign season ever.

[ScienceIsGood]

24. So true. He is closer than he should be. nt

[C_U_L8R]

18. Worse, he's trying with all his might to win

Problem is he's an incompetent racist fool.

Not throwing it... blowing it.

[rock]

19. No. He's not that smart.

Geniusness aside.

[pampango]

20. If he had changed tactics for the GE then maybe so, but nothing has changed

from his style during his successful republican primary.

He is convinced that 'Donald being Donald' is what people want. It worked with republicans. Why not with the whole country?

[Lucinda]

21. Not intentionally. n/t

[etherealtruth]

22. No he is simply a "disaster" as a candidate (and human being)

[ScienceIsGood]

23. He is not that far behind. This is much closer than anyone expected early. n/t

[herding cats]

25. No, I don't think that's the case.

You're looking at him as if he's a politician. Which he isn't. He wants to use the position of POTUS to make him legitimately the most famous businessman ever. In his mind, anyway.

He's a spoiled, adult child with a narcissistic personality who seems to believe he can win this because he's that good at manipulating people to get what he wants. He seems to thinks all he has to do is reel in the non voting crazy people out there he hasn't reached yet, and intimidate those who plan not to vote from going to the polls.

From my perspective it's terrifying so many Americans have responded positively to his hollow manipulative tactics, but that's just me.

[Marthe48]

26. Thought he might be running to insure a Democratic win

but if Trump or whoever runs his business considered so much information would come to light, can't believe he would run and risk the exposure. If he has executives, accountants, a business hierarchy, they are either incompetent or unheeded. Trump doesn't seem to know there is a past, or audio and video recordings, public records, what research is, or that like all candidates who run, he will be scrutinized. He doesn't seem to realize that his sh*t smells.

I didn't remember that Trump has toyed with running for president in the past, I no longer believe he is throwing the election to the Dems. Not on purpose. I hope that all of this news about free rides, seeing a business advantage in the 2008 loss of family homes, spending money in Cuba while the embargo was in place, all the other advantage he took and got as an entitled businessman will force Republicans to reform. Fat chance.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. No. He's such a narcissist that he thinks he's winning.

And his ego is so huge that he thinks he's smarter than everybody else and he's managing his campaign perfectly.

[ginnyinWI]

28. No, his greatest fear in life is to be thought a LOSER.

Right now he's doing all he knows how to do. He's a "one trick pony" capable of winning a primary but not a general election.

And when he loses, it will be the fault of someone else: crooked politicians, dishonest media, etc etc.

I only hope people will see through him, at long last.

[Wednesdays]

29. Why would he throw the election?

Does he have big money in Vegas on a Hillary win, or something?

[clutterbox1830]

30. No. He is not that smart. Also we should not get overcconfident.

Also with the polarization of the country and the media desperation to make this a contest, you should not be surprise if the race tightens again.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

31. No.

No one runs for office planning to lose. At whatever level, and no matter how hopeless, candidates always hope to win.

And think a little bit about what would be involved and deliberately losing. Worse yet, if his plan in the first place were to lose, then winning the election would be his worst nightmare. Not that I think there's much of a chance of that.

He's simply not a politician, pure and simple. He does not understand just how the game is played. None of his advisors or staff have any experience running a campaign. He thinks it's simply another kind of reality show

People have been suggesting this for some time now, and it's just not true. To think this way is to not take his campaign seriously, which is what everyone was doing last summer -- thinking he and his candidacy was a joke -- and he certainly fooled us all. And now that he's the Republican nominee, it's even more important we take him seriously, realize he does want to win. We may just luck out thanks to his incompetence, but we have to think like Hillary is the one ten points behind and do everything possible to help her win.

[Monk06]

32. A this point I think he knows he's stepped out of his dept but it's too late. It's all in

Texas Holdem and he can't fold or take back the bet

When this is finished no bank or private financier will touch the Trump brand and he knows it

That is why he is acting so desperately and irrationally

He's looking at a bust out with a very weak hand

[lillypaddle]

33. NO

He is LOSING the election, not throwing it.

[UCmeNdc]

34. No, Trump is incompetent.

It looks like he is throwing the election but incompetent people cannot manage their tasks. Trump is just in over his head.

[Bucky]

35. I know it's hard to reconcile, but he really is that inept

it's like asking "Is that weiner dog trying to throw the race?" when in the middle of a wiener dog race one of them starts running in the wrong direction.

He doesn't want to lose the race, he's just a stupid wiener dog and he doesn't understand what is involved in running around the track.