That’s why I think he’s going to be so gloriously, excruciatingly bad at the debates. With no audience to feed off of, he doesn’t know how to relate to a quiet crowd. He’s not quick enough on his feet to come up with the snappy comebacks, which is why he repeats his “good” lines over and over and over, even when he’s ad libbing. And he’ll never be able to keep all the facts and figures straight to provide any meaningful push back to Hillary’s points.
She’s going to clean his clock. 
His fans obviously don’t care that he won’t mingle with them. They seem to be happy enough to be in the same ballroom/arena with him. Yeah, his handlers don’t want him to be in a normal campaign situation. He would be a ticking time bomb. It’s just so strange to watch this bizarre thing happening. He’s tapping into their fears, but otherwise he is not doing a single thing to show that he gives a shit about them. And yet they are eating it up.
To use one of his Best Words™, Sad™…
Believe me™…
Well, he just wrapped up. Wow, that was so…tepid. Seriously. He was actually saying that the African-American community was going to be turning to him soon. :smack:
I don’t know how many white people are truly deep-dish racists. What, five percent, ten? No idea. But lets use that for spitball. Good guess that a bunch of them see Trump as their kind of guy, so whatever that demographic portion may be, they are not likely to be pleased hearing even this sort of empty rhetoric of sympathy.
Is it even possible for him to think that this word salad he delivered will affect the black vote? “Yeah, right, fuck the Democrats, taking advantage of me, I’m voting for Trump, because he’s gonna…do stuff! Lots of it! Yeah!”. Were they even listening?
So, seems to me this empty exercise would likely lose him a few white votes and gain him nothing from communities of color. So, this is what would have happened if General Jubilation T. Cornpone had run for public office?
It’s getting hard. Just not fun anymore. He doesn’t need this shit.
I think he’s engineering his exit from the race now, flipping the bird to as many rank and file Republicans as he can on his way out the door. Why else Milwaukee? Or Connecticut? He’s even scheduled to come here to Oregon in a couple of weeks. We’re not flippable. He’s gotta know this.
He’s going to force them to dump him, but he wants out.
This is the stock GOP rhetoric each election cycle (well, all the time but now is when you hear it most): Democrats have failed you and are keeping you down for their own political purposes. We’re the only ones actually interested in seeing you succeed.
Then it’s followed by North Carolina asking the Supreme Court to allow the voting laws deemed as nakedly discriminatory to still apply, the mysterious “Vote Wednesday, Nov 9th” fliers that appear in black communities each election, Trump telling his supporters they’ll need to police “certain areas” to prevent voter fraud, all the “Why isn’t it ‘ALL Lives Matter??’” nonsense, conservative media reports about how this or that police shooting victim was dressed ‘like a thug’, a Congressman asking what the “other subgroups” have ever done for western civilization, so on and so forth.
Then the crushing loss in the African-American community followed by “But… but… we’re the Party of Lincoln! Why won’t they vote for us?”
good content in speech though.
Examples, please. I tuned in for 6 seconds to hear that Rudy Giulliani cut crime in the State of New York by 76%. It was a good laugh, but the weather channel had better, more factual content.
Maybe it is because the hip-hop singers are mentioning him so much.
(Billy West quoting Trump as Zap Branigan)
[Trump]“And did you know my name is in more black songs than any other name in hip-hop?.. Like five of them lately.”[/Trump]
[Keef]
:Sigh: uuuuugh!
[/keef]
replay on CNN right now.
He just said Hillary Clinton is ready to write free passes to immigrants who will come and take everybody’s jobs, including low-income African Americans.
That’s not content, that’s just a person who’s never read a newspaper, unless it mentioned him. Yep, both sentences are riddled with Alzheimer’s. Not tuning in for a third one.
Just a thought to keep in mind to rest well tonight: Right now Clinton leads Trump in Florida by more than Trump leads Clinton in Texas.
Oh, c’mon! The next one’s bound to be better…
speech replay over … now CNN’s Lemon / panel does excellent job of bashing speech.
don’t miss it.
Zogby poll only has Hillary up by 2 nationwide.
polls not important now.
will be in a month.
Zogby is one of the worst pollsters.
And the polls usually become important just about now.
Most Poll watchers and poll aggregators report right now that Clinton is up by about 7 nationwide.
Nighty Nights… 
no 100 plus days after convention on their graphs. ??
Wish I was smoking what you are. I just finished watching a replay of that speech there were two things I kept thinking:
[ol]
[li]Good god this guy does a shitty job of reading off a teleprompter.[/li][li]Nothing he is saying makes any sense. This speech is just a bunch of Trumpy soundbites strung together in a pathetically non-sensical way. [/li][/ol]
The lackluster response of the crowd to his speechifying just confirms my impression.