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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm convinced Trump thought he could cakewalk this election against Biden.
Absolute bare minimum for campaigning. Stay in a tight bubble. Reduce opportunities for forced errors (as if!). Pissed as hell now he has to get out there and do something against Harris/Walz. FORCED to further reveal himself and mix amongst riff raff you know he has contempt for.
Then again, maybe the goal wasnt to win it with exposure, but to lean on voter suppression in the states and send to House and/or Supreme Court.
diane in sf
(4,216 posts)brewens
(15,359 posts)up on the ground nationwide for republicans where they need it. The RNC may be such a cluster like no one has ever seen before! LOL
Money has to get to the right people doing the work If it's bad, they have to keep their mouths shut about it the way things stand right now.
Skittles
(169,522 posts)THAT IS HIS FUCKING PROBLEM
stopdiggin
(15,025 posts)doubt very seriously if there were any serious heads in the campaign - that thought it was going to be anything like a walkover.
The serious heads have always known that - for whatever problems Biden might have had - their own guy had a built in problem with the (almost immutable) ceiling that has long held in Trump's numbers and support. The guy just isn't moving anybody into his column. And it's been that way for a long time. So ... You have to figure out a way to win with the numbers that you have. And they just aren't very impressive.
Demobrat
(10,263 posts)Keep repeating the same old talking points by rote. The border. Bidens age.
Get a few grievances off his chest. No thinking involved. Soak up the worship. Play a few rounds of golf. He had it down. Like an actor whos been in the same stage play for 20 years.
Now he has to think on his feet and he just cant do it. He knows hes outmatched so hes desperate for the good old days of two and a half weeks ago. Literally screaming for Joe Biden to come back.
A more joyous sight has rarely been seen.
yellowcanine
(36,719 posts)And pathetic.
Zoomie1986
(1,213 posts)It's that he makes the typical mistake of having someone (his father, Roy Cohn) teach him a bag of tricks that has (mostly) worked for him all his life to get what he wants, but he's too stupid to come up with any new ones when he's faced with someone who can counter those tired old tricks.
Notice how he keeps cycling through the same boring tactics, over and over: Name calling, taunts, threats (implicit and explicit), silly distractions, lies, whining, bullying, and so on. When all else fails, sue!
The problem is that those tactics work the few times you cross up a random plumber in Hoboken where others can't see. They don't work with a national audience who are watching...and taking notes.
notemason
(572 posts)and sell him for what he thinks he's worth, we could retire the national debt.
no_hypocrisy
(54,269 posts)Now he has to work for it.
Reminiscent of how Trump thought all he had to do was to open a casino or three and the money would roll in without having to earn it.