Trump update 8/15/2016.. Crosshairs on the Media
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In the latest attack on Donald Trump, this time by a member of the conservative media, overnight the WSJ editorial board penned an op-ed called “Trump’s Self-Reckoning” in which it notes that “Trump is right that most of the media want him to lose, but then that was also true of George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan. It’s true of every Republican presidential nominee. The difference is that Mr. Trump has made it so easy for the media and his opponents.”
While that is accurate, the WSJ also criticizes the Trump campaign for making “the election a referendum on Hillary Clinton, not on himself” and adds that his managers would “like him to spend a little time each day—a half hour even—studying the issues he’ll need to understand if he becomes President”, which however is proving difficult for Trump who “prefers to watch the cable shows rather than read a briefing paper.”
The WSJ also slams Trump for thinking “the crowds at his campaign rallies are a substitute for the lack of a field organization and digital turnout strategy. And he thinks that Twitter and social media can make up for being outspent $100 million to zero in battleground states.”
The punchline, as the WSJ writes, is that the “tragedy is that this is happening in a year when Republicans should win. The political scientist Alan Abramowitz has spent years developing his “time for a change” forecasting model. The model looks at the rate of GDP growth in the second quarter of an election year (1.2% this year), the incumbent President’s approval rating, and the electorate’s desire for change after one party has held the White House for eight years.”
Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump. But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition.
It then hints at a Trump temporal ultimatum by saying that Trump is running out of time, and with “more than 80 days left, Mr. Trump’s window for a turnaround is closing. The “Trump pivot” always seemed implausible given his lifelong instincts and habits, but Mr. Trump promised Republicans. “At some point I’ll be so presidential that you people will be so bored, and I’ll come back as a presidential person, and instead of 10,000 people I’ll have about 150 people and they’ll say, boy, he really looks presidential,” he said in April.”
The conclusion: if Trump is unable to change, those “who sold Mr. Trump to GOP voters as the man who could defeat Hillary Clinton now face a moment of truth. Chris Christie, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Manafort and the talk-radio right told Republicans their man could rise to the occasion.” This, in turn, would lead to an unprecedented event: “If they can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.”
Will Trump listen to outside criticism? If so, it would be the first time that has happened. Alternatively, if as some have suggested Trump’s mission now is to “throw the election” to Hillary, he will merely continue on his current course, and indeed force the GOP to “write him off” in what – if current polls are indeed accurate – would be a landslide victory for Hillary despite the myriad of issue facing her own campaign, which courtesy of Trump’s rather large mouth, have so far evaded the mainstream almost entirely.
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