The Trump Campaign Has Just Given Up

[applegrove]

The Trump Campaign Has Just Given Up

https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/16/the-trump-campaign-has-just-given-up/

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“Donald Trump isn’t really running a campaign for president anymore. Instead, he’s involved in an extended revenge plot or is simply following the politics of grievance to its natural, unseemly end,” Chris Cillizza writes.

“It appears as though Trump’s minders have effectively given up, allowing the candidate to pursue his own score-settling and airing of grievances in these final weeks of the campaign. Taking that road may bring some satisfaction to Trump. But it has the potential to do catastrophic damage to the party he ostensibly leads as the GOP tries to hold its Senate and House majorities amid declining enthusiasm within its own ranks for its presidential nominee.”

“To care about that effect would mean that Trump was running a real campaign that grasped the idea that it’s about more than just the whims of a single candidate. He simply isn’t doing that.”



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[Siwsan]

1. Either they've given up or they are engaged in the most bizarre campaign tactic, ever

No plans, no policies, just a series of wild, spastic gestures and vituperative whining.

[truedelphi]

2. And to run the campaign without spending anywhere near

The amount of money now needed is really bizarre.

[Siwsan]

4. It is like watching an extended director's cut of the tv show Punk'd.

I keep waiting for that Ashton guy to pop out and put us all out of our misery.

[asjr]

23. Trump must have mesmerized his children in their infancy.

They seem to be doing exactly what he wants. This has gone on and on. I keep waiting for the men in white to throw him in the helpless bin.

[lindysalsagal]

42. They know he'll cut them off from the inheritance.

When the blowhard dies, we'll all hear months of legal bickering over his assets. The family will swarm like flies.

[Glamrock]

7. You do realize

you just described the GOP to a t.

[Siwsan]

8. I guess you are right!

We be living in strange days, my friend

[Glamrock]

10. Strange days indeed

Most peculiar momma (John Lennon)

[Cha]

36. Yep.. just add " unprecidented Obstruction"

[IronLionZion]

12. Plans are for losers

America doesn't have time for plans. The only plan is to make America great again!

[RKP5637]

3. They cut Trump loose, let him float into space, the GOP is probably trying to save the mother ship!

[sunonmars]

5. Its like watching a car crash in slow motion, you can't look away

its been obvious for a while, Trump is only making money out of this, he's spending nada but sending all the donation money back to Trump companies.

There is no ground game, there is no outreach, hell i bet on Nov 8th, the Dem party is going to swamp the states with organizers while nothing appears for Trump, there is a shedload of money needed on election day to pay the teams that organize all this, its not coming, is it?

This could all go south very quickly in the next few weeks.

If he doesn't care, his supporters will slope off back under their rocks, as they wont either.

[calimary]

21. May your last sentence come true!

I hope to Heaven that they ebb back out to sea like storm surges do. I EARNESTLY hope so every time I hear or see or read another something that involves a threat of "revolution" or "torches and pitchforks" or "overthrow" or the violence that's being insinuated WAY too frequently lately. MAN! They are REALLY acting out!

This is absurd! Totally absurd.

[anamandujano]

6. Trump's minders know that he never listens so it's not like they have given up. They are

most likely all mentally fatigued, standing by shrugging their shoulders and hoping to get paid.
They are out of ideas about how to communicate with him.

Only those surrogates who have a high tolerance for humiliation are still slugging it out.

[Ligyron]

11. "...hoping to get paid".

Yup, and when this is all over and somebody or someone does the accounting on Trump's expenditures there are going to be recriminations for years to come. Lawsuits, pointing of fingers and public shaming will be on hilarious display forever.

I just can't wait to see what disasters occur on Nov 9th onward with his deplorables.

[anamandujano]

14. It's definitely going to be good.

[Rorey]

15. I'm interested in seeing the FEC reports on his campaign when it's over

One more legal problem for Trump. I love it!

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, Rorey!

He and Chris Christie both! I bet Chris Christie was betting on becoming Attorney General in a Trump administration as his way out of any Bridgegate problems! No wonder he played the loyal fawning manservant so faithfully for awhile there.

[Rorey]

32. Thanks

I've actually been lurking for years, on and off. I've been reading lots more lately because I needed to be around like-minded people now that my (possibly soon-to-be ex) husband decided that Trump is his choice.

Hopefully Christie will already be incarcerated for Bridgegate by the time Donald's legal problems with this election get underway.

[The Genealogist]

35. I'm guessing too that they just gave up trying

They say doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is insanity. Perhaps his handlers aren't insane.

[Cha]

37. Well said, anamandujano! I like that you said

"trump's minders".

[cindyperry]

9. And what about the trump brand

That is a pile of steaming doody

[erronis]

17. I'm going to cancel my two-week vacation at Trump's Miami Beach Resort

I was really looking forward to spending some quality time with other filthy-rich assholes while my current wife was able to get massages and fondles from the Trumpeteers.

Gotta go find some other place to grab something. Oh, woe is me - white rich trash.

Hope Donny can find happiness in his loneliness. Oh, yeah - Alex Jones and Fox-retards will always be his friends.

[Cha]

38. Let's hope that continues to devolve..

as it should

[Martin Eden]

13. Trump doesn't care about anyone but Trump

Shouldn't expect anything else from a sociopathic narcissist.

[Kennah]

16. If he shows up naked for the third debate, it will be the ultimate in revenge porn. (n/t)

[erronis]

18. 'magine that a naked trump would look like Barbie/Ken w/o clothes - nothing there!

[forest444]

19. They certainly are: they're now resorting to torching their own offices.

Desperation is bad counsel, Republicans.

[mdbl]

28. no kidding

no one else would want to torch that cesspool other than Trump's own supporters.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. I would most love to hear Trump's plan for stopping crime on day 1. What I would

give for Chris Wallace to ask:

"Mr. Trump, you say you will stop all crime on Day 1. Exactly how will you do that. And how many additional police will you ask Congress to approve the funds to hire? And, please do not talk about giving all the criminal types jobs - because even if you do - that will take many months if not years to materialize."

[ginnyinWI]

41. he's no Conservative, that much I know.

Anything he proposes is going to take a LOT of money.

[Ace Rothstein]

22. Trump never stopped fighting the primary.

Very strange campaign tactic.

[Cha]

39. He never transitioned into

GE mode.

Hellava gift for Democracy. We know what he's like.. a gift he's not trying to act normal.. softening his image like the m$m was trying to do for awhile.

[bucolic_frolic]

25. Cillizza never strikes me as a very bright bulb

and this is no exception

Trump IS running a campaign to win, he hasn't given up, in his mind
he believes these strategies will be winners - he is doing what he has
done all along as he said he would. There is no deviation from his judgment,
which is of course perfect at all times according to him.

Of course his team has given up, there's no changing him.

[BallardWA]

26. The Trump Who Stole Festivus

We are in the "Airing of Grievances" phase. Next comes "Feats of Strength". Good golly, that ought to be fun. Then the Festivus Miracle - when he loses. Buh-bye.

[calimary]

31. Welcome to DU, BallardWA!

VERY much looking forward to the "Buh-bye" part!

[C Moon]

27. Is this the craziest Presidential candidate a party has ever put on a ticket?

What's with that party: McCain (choosing Palin); R$ being completely out of touch with anyone but the upper class white; and now Trump: a self-consumed, crude, sex-crazed, ex-tv star. Wow.
I really hope we can grab both houses and get the country back in shape. Please, please, please!

[czarjak]

29. Bullshit believers...

Believe bullshit.

[oasis]

33. Give up, get up and get out, you circus clowns.

[LeftRant]

34. Trump can't stick to ANY planned strategy for more than a few hours.

He just can't stop opening his mouth and word-vomiting on us. Like HIS thoughts are so amazing and important, we all just have to hear about them non-stop. His parent's clearly never told little Donny, "No."

But we're all going to tell him "Hell no!" on Nov 8

[ginnyinWI]

40. "You won't be-LEEVE how big I'm gonna lose!"

I'll be the biggest looosah evah! Believe me! Nobody has EVER lost a Presidential election the way I'M gonna do it! Never!!"

[lindysalsagal]

43. I keep waiting to hear Rod Serling say, "Imagine a 3rd grader with unlimited money

disguises himself as a grown man and runs for president."

Then it would ALL make sense.