Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump looks out at Lake Michigan during a visit to the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin August 16, 2016. REUTERS/Eric Thayer.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has shaken up his campaign staff amid sliding poll numbers and signs of disarray, U.S. media reported early on Wednesday.
Trump made senior advisor Kellyanne Conway his campaign manager, and Breitbart News executive chairman Stephen Bannon has been brought on as the campaign’s chief executive, the New York Times reported citing Conway.
Paul Manafort would remain as campaign chair, it said. The Washington Post cited campaign aides as saying that while Trump respected Manafort, he felt “‘boxed in’ and ‘controlled’ by people “who barely knew him”.
I’m so sure that hooking up with Breitbart will make everything okay, oh my yes. Why, there would never be any inflammatory stupidity coming from there. :gigantic eyeroll:
This should be interesting, in a train wreck sort of way, especially as the RNC is going to try and make nice with Latino people. We’ll see what the Breitbart spin on that will be.
Via Raw Story.
More clewlessness from teh trum-prat, Trump appeals to black voters in attempt to offset dismal polling (my added emboldening with The Grauniad’s edits in {curly braces}):
Omitted from the above excerpt, teh trum-prat ignored Mr Serpas and continued to lie, claiming violent crime is increasing.
Jeez, I really do hope Trump’s support has maxed out and this will just reinforce the catering to his base. I keep hearing the experts tell me Trump has no chance, but they are the same people who told me Trump had no chance of winning the GOP nomination.
Given the poor state of our media (as had been highlighted so well recently by John Oliver) it’s not surprising an organization like Breitbart is able to be taken seriously by far too many people.
Kengi, As I understand it, there is one voter demographic where teh trum-prat leads Clinton, by a substantial margin, and where Clinton isn’t having much success: White males without a college degree. Awkwardly, that is also the largest voter demographic.
He is doing so badly among some other voter demographics he is currently polling in fourth place, behind Clinton, the antivax Green, and even the loonytunian. E.g., see me@1, fourth amongst blacks, or this Salon article, fourth amongst 18–29 year olds (The GOP’s youth-vote disaster: Donald Trump’s nomination could hurt Republicans for years to come).
In addition to the large voter demographic currently polling in favour of teh trum-prat, there are other problems, which include (not in any order): (1) Voter disenfranchisement; (2) Ensuring the sane voters vote… (3) …sanely (that is, for a viable non-thug)… (4) …including in the “down ballet” contests.
His campaign failing Trump does what Trump does, he doubles down and tries to find people more like himself. He thinks of himself as a winner so the more hard-core Trumpiness they project the better. Because everyone loves Trump. To know him is to love him. If you don’t love him it is, obviously, because you don’t know enough about him.
The simple fact that Trump is the root of the problem for the Trump campaign. Instead of surrounding himself with people less like himself, to act as buffers and smooth things out with voters he needs, he goes the other way. In his mind it isn’t working because they don’t see the unvarnished Trump.
Paul Krugman called it, the form of failure will be a derp spiral:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/paul-krugman-predicts-a-derp-spiral-when-trump-realizes-hes-likely-to-lose/
What worries me is that Trump’s assumption that he is a “winner”, and the right medicine for what ails the US, cuts very close to a Messiah complex. Assuming he is what we need, and that everyone who gets to know him will learn to love him, he is set up to assume that cheating and extra-constitutional means are justified, and something he can get away with. That once in office we will all see that a trump presidency is for the best and the minor unpleasantness of his forcing the issue will be quickly forgotten. What with the endless waves of prosperity and delight that are the natural consequence of Trump being in power.
This is the delusion of stalkers and malignant ex-husbands. That the fit is so perfect that the outcome will be paradise and all the violence of forcing the relationship will quickly be forgiven. If they can just get close enough for long enough for their victim to fully appreciate how perfect they are for each other.
Derp spiral it is.
But please, pretty please, save us the violence of trying to get Trump into office through extraordinary means in an attempt to get us all to fall in love with him. That sort of thing never ends well.
On the up side, the nightmare of Trump stalking America is going to make “No-drama Obama” look great. He will be remembered fondly.
Can he run again in four years?
lorn@4, “Can he run again in four years?”
I’m not sure who you mean by he: If President Obama, no; If teh trum-prat, yes, albeit I’d rather hope his frauds and scams have caught up with him by then and he’s been convicted and in prison (which does not, as far as I know, prevent him from trying to run again).
Somewhat related to your opening point about teh trum-prat deluding himself that he’s always correct, Trump’s ‘deeply un-American’ stance on immigration prompts legal concerns:
And, Trump has made it clear exactly who should be barred from the US: himself:
“peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society”.
Hm.
“peddling” the fucking “narrative”.
There are none so blind as those who drive 75 miles out of their way to find the last store selling Krazy Glue so they can deliberately glue their eyes shut.