'As bad as it gets': GOP consultants have a secret admission about Trump -- and a have a word of warn

[JonLP24]

‘As bad as it gets’: GOP consultants have a secret admission about Trump — and a have a word of warning to ‘Lincoln Project’ Republicans

Fox News and AM talk radio are full of GOP strategists and consultants who are happy to go on the air and recite pro-Trump talking points, but it’s often the anonymous quotes in outlets outside the right-wing bubble that offer insights on what Republicans are really thinking about President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign. Never Trump conservative Tim Miller interviewed nine different GOP consultants for a Rolling Stone article published this week, and they candidly discussed Trump’s chances of winning a second term.

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Miller says of his conservation with the consultants, “What I found in their answers was one part Stockholm Syndrome, one part survival instinct. They all may not love the president, but most share his loathing for his enemies on the left, in the media, and the apostate Never Trump Republicans with a passion that engenders an alliance with the president, if not a kinship.”

Some of the consultants expressed intense anger for the Never Trump group The Lincoln Project, whose members have been asserting that a Biden victory is the only way to cleanse the GOP of Trumpism. One of them told Miller: “There’s no coming back for these Lincoln Project motherfuckers, it doesn’t matter what [is] next. They are madder at [Republican senators] than [at] Trump, for sure.”

However, some of the consultants admitted that Trump can be difficult to work with. One of them told Miller: “We haven’t worked for anybody who seriously thinks the guy has it all together.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/as-bad-as-it-gets-gop-consultants-have-a-secret-admission-about-trump-and-a-have-a-word-of-warning-to-lincoln-project-republican/

Rolling Stone link
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-reelection-chances-2020-house-senate-candidates-biden-1024862/

[Renew Deal]

1. These comments prove the Lincoln Project crew right

The Republican Party needs to be purged of cowards.

[JonLP24]

2. It actually makes me like the Lincoln Project more

I didn't trust the Never Trump Republicans but I really did appreciate this Tweet. It made me see them in a new light.

Link to tweet

[uponit7771]

4. +1, Tucker Carlson is ...THE ... most racist commentator on major network. White people accept him

... because its FAUX News or some shit

[OnDoutside]

11. I'm glad it does. Yes, their politics isn't your politics, but they have burnt their bridges and

want to see the Republican Party raised to the ground, to allow a new conservative alternative to grow. The US does need a functioning alternative, though hopefully it will allow the Dems to be in power for numerous election cycles, to re-direct the political compass.

[uponit7771]

3. Fuck every republican pol who isn't loudly speaking out against the racist sexual predator Trump

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. The party has become the Trump cult: #1 issue for 80%+ Repubs is loyalty to Trump

“There are practical realities — we ran a bunch of red district primaries, and it would come back that the number one issue for 80+% of Republican primary voters was loyalty to Donald Trump. I’m not making that number up,” a respondent told me.
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A consultant who advises a challenger in a swing house seat that Hillary Clinton carried, for example, indicated that they thought they had less ability to distance from Trump than those who are in safer, more MAGAfied districts. “No dissent is tolerated [with the base],” and “If my candidate is going to win, it’s going to be by 1 or 2 percent they can’t afford to lose any votes [on the pro-Trump flank].”
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This view is so widespread that when asked, all of the consultants but two said they haven’t even had a conversation about the possibility of distancing from Trump with any of their candidates or campaign teams. Another put it this way: “The idea of distancing, if it’s discussed, it’s discussed very quietly, it’s discussed one-on-one. You wouldn’t talk about it on a conference call…maybe someone would, but let’s just say it hasn’t happened yet and I’m on a lot of those calls.”

[oldsoftie]

9. In '16, people were scared to say they'd vote for him. Now, they're scared to say they WONT

or maybe in '16 it was more embarrassed than scared.

[Snoopy 7]

6. they forgot to add

"However, some of the consultants admitted that Trump can be difficult to work with. One of them told Miller: “We haven’t worked for anybody who seriously thinks the guy has it all together.”" But we can't root against trump because the money keeps rolling in...

[djacq]

7. Psychological Warfare us a butch!

[oldsoftie]

8. It really SHOULD be a a massive defeat. But dont count chickens yet.

Pressure MUST be constant.

[abqtommy]

10. Oh come on, Rolling Stone! How can tRUMP have a "re-election campaign" when he hasn't

won an election yet? What he relies on is ratfuckery, both in 2016 and now...

[Hekate]

12. KnR