Trump Held A Training Session For Pennsylvania Campaign Volunteers And Nobody Showed Up

[TheBlackAdder]

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A PoliticusUSA extract from a New York Magazine article:

In a blue room in the back, beneath an American flag with the words MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN printed in block letters inside the white stripes, a woman sat alone at the end of a conference table. She wasn’t participating in the volunteer training. She was the volunteer training. There just weren’t any volunteers.

When she first thought I might be one, she was friendly. She offered me coffee and asked me to sit down. Two people had signed up for the Trump Leadership Initiative training, she said, but each of them had canceled, one citing an ear infection and the other citing allergies.

Nuzzi’s article contains several of these stories. Campaign training events in Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Pittsburgh all with no one showing up, and in the case of Pittsburgh, no one appeared to know that an event was scheduled.

None of this is a surprise. Trump didn’t win the 2016 election due to a superior campaign organization, and the idea that one of the most unorganized presidential campaigns in history could turn it all around and become an unstoppable grassroots machine seems like a fantasy.

Trump has his core base of support, and they will show up for him, but Donald Trump may not be able to reach the fringe Trump voters that Democrats have been in contact with since 2018. Trump has a massive problem in Pennsylvania, and evidence is piling up to suggest that things are getting worse for the top of the Republican ballot in the Keystone State.

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/16/trump-pennsylvania-training.html



Read the full New York Magazine article here:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-reelection-campaign-2020.html

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[Ohiogal]

1. I wish some of that

would trickle across the border into Ohio.

[Jamastiene]

2. And a few states down to NC, but

I'm dreaming mighty big there.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. They're too busy getting trained as Ballot Box Nazi's to challenge, harass and intimidate voters

Why campaign when you can just bully?

2020 will be the first election since 1980 that the GOP is unrestrained from intimidating voters at polls.

Roger Stone was the mastermind of this tactic in the 70’s; he’s currently a free man and available for an encore...

[2naSalit]

12. Something to remember, the team is sprung from prison and...

You know they are involved.

[captain queeg]

4. "I guess maybe some people don't love me"

The greatest understatement I’ve heard in a long time. He said it in an interview a week or so ago when he predicted Joe would win.

[smirkymonkey]

20. Understatement of the millennium.

I am getting the impression that he has no idea just how many people hate him with a passion.

[captain queeg]

21. I think you might be right. He lives in such a bubble with everyone

Doing everything they can to keep him happy, maybe he really believes his own BS. I personally hate him more than anyone else in the world and can’t think of anything that would befall him that could make me feel sorry for him.

[Cha]

22. Nobody in his gang of magats reads DU then or twitter.. or if

they did.. maybe they don't want to tell him?

[Blue Owl]

5. Trouble, Simpson???

[PSPS]

6. Odd. The same thing was written about his campaign offices four years ago.

[Sugarcoated]

8. Do you recall where?

[LymphocyteLover]

11. Lots of places reported how bad his groundgame was-- was one reason I thought

he couldn't win.

Later they said he used local NRA groups to GOTV but not clear how real that was or how effective. It was still a really weird election.

[Sugarcoated]

17. Upstate PA was very fertile ground for a RW thug-like

candidate, with or without ground game..still is but his support has softened a bit.

He's gonna lose PA this time...burbs and urban centers will win the day. Pennsylvania's coming back home to the Dems.

[LymphocyteLover]

25. thank god-- we just need a couple more states like Michigan and North Carolina to do the same

[Sugarcoated]

26. We've got Michigan

North Carolina will be tough with Repubs running things. In Wisconsin I think we'll pull it out, Arizona looks very promising. Florida may be too far gone for crooked Donnie and DeSantis to steal.

[LymphocyteLover]

28. I'm in Indiana, which is solidly pro-Trump and I feel fairly helpless

I donate and I know there's other activities to get involved in (and I'm in a couple of local campaigns), but so frustrating not to have a chance here

[Sugarcoated]

29. I admire what you guys do in those red states

...and brave to go up against that breed of Republican. The powers that be need to be there supporting you...hope they are! We can't win if we don't play.

[LymphocyteLover]

30. Thanks!

[PSPS]

19. I think it was in The Atlantic. I can't find it now.

It was a first-person piece like "My trip to the local trump campaign office" or something like that. They described walking into a large room with desks, chairs, posters, but no people at all, not even staff.

[Sugarcoated]

27. I'll try to find it

Thank you!

[Squinch]

7. Great article. Long read but worth it.

[judesedit]

9. One can pray

[Pepsidog]

10. Finally something fun to read.

[crickets]

13. K&R for visibility.

[SheltieLover]

14. Wahahaha!

K&R!

[AmyStrange]

15. Maybe their invitations got lost in the mail?

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That would be beyond ironic. It'd be freakin hilarious!!

ha ha ha ha ha
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[ailsagirl]

16. That's hilarious!!!

[Thekaspervote]

18. Fringe voters....that's all that's left for the dotard

[Cha]

23. COVID DREAD?

[Raine]

24. I heard that his people plan on knocking on a million doors

with no people turning out I don't see how that's possible.