At this point, it looks like they will: Donald Trump is trying -- and failing -- to win over Bernie Sanders supporters
Don’t bully, don’t demean, treat others with respect - If only Republicans would have followed these rules in the past! Maybe their Presidential candidates haven’t been guilty of these things, but other politicians certainly have, not to mention their spokespeople and “journalists”.
Like it or not, they’ve trained a large part of their base to expect, and even admire, this type of behavior and now those chickens are coming home to roost.
Not at all that they named a person who was/is a Cruz supporter - of all the ex-Repub nominees, he’s the only one who has kept up with a paid staff even after suspending his campaign. If there is a Dump Trump nominee, it will be Cruz as he likely is the person behind all this organizing.
It’s not just some stalwarts, many of the top Dump Trump people are among the GOP’s best speechwriters and campaign managers. There is a YUUUGE antipathy on the part of most of those within the campaigning industry to have a “Donald J. Trump Campaign” line on their resume, so they are happily working with Senators and House members while telling Trump “sorry, too busy, maybe next time.”
Not supporting Trump is not the same is not the same as supporting Clinton. That article mentions a poll that shows that only 8% of Sanders supporters will back Trump and from that jumps to the unsupported conclusion that most of the rest will back Clinton.
I do think that a significant proportion of the rest will back Clinton, but there’s nothing in that article to support that.
Say they do manage to dump Trump at the convention. Would that send a message, particularly to his supporters, that the primary process is just a joke since the Top Guys still have to approve the choice or else?
Yup, it would basically mean kissing goodbye to 13,000,000 voters who thought that their vote for Trump in the primary meant something, and a branding of the Republicans as antidemocratic as opposed to just antiDemocratic. As bad as Trump is they are far better with him than without him, both in terms of the 2016 election and for the long term health of the party.
No, I was merely comparing the experience the relative campaigns have available to them (Obama’s highly effective NARWHAL v Romney’s disastrous ORCA). For all I know, both camps are going in different directions.
Sorry that wasn’t clear. In any case, it’s all academic since — at least for the past couple of election cycles — these strategies have been closely held secrets.
It may very well be that the Republicans’ best strategy at this point is to choose the lesser evil of conceding this election and looking to the future, as opposed to fatally or near-fatally wounding the party by going against a large part of their base. Their decades of stirring up the basest and most negative emotions and working to dumb down the electorate in general are coming home to roost.
Only Republicans who endorse Donald Trump will speak at the convention.
Makes sense, but I have a feeling The Donald will have to walk this one back. Gonna be a pretty bare-bones affair otherwise.
I think he would be quite ok with being the only speaker for the entire convention.
Perhaps he’ll allow some speakers to appear with clothespins on their noses. Or paper bags over their heads…
Then who ARE they obligated to nominate? A candidate like Jeb Bush or Dennis Kasich, who couldn’t even win support among their party’s own members? Someone like Mitt Romney, who didn’t even choose to run in 2016? A dark-horse candidate, with whom the electorate is unfamiliar, and who’s never tried a national campaign?
It is also more work than the Trump campaign is apparently doing to get him elected.
There are things about her I like, things I don’t like. But I am satisfied with her as the Democratic candidate for this election.
In Trump’s latest attempt to accuse Elizabeth Warren of being “racist” (spoilers: she’s not), he proceeded to drop the following;
[QUOTE=Donald J. Trump, short-fingered vulgarian]
She is one of the least productive senators in the United States Senate. We call her Pocahontas for a reason.
[/QUOTE]
I don’t even.
Because Pocahontas was one of the least productive native Americans? That’s the only thing that logically follows…
Trump down by 4 in AZ…
In 3-way race, Trump up by 8 in TX. In 2012, Romney was up by 16pts in same poll.
Does it even work that way? I mean, big picture, it is not *his *convention. It is the GOP’s convention - at which he’ll be nominated - but it seems to me he shouldn’t have shit to say about who speaks and who doesn’t. Wouldn’t that be up to Reince Priebus or whatever committee is in charge of snacks, streamers and speakers or whatever?
Granted, this comes from the Clinton campaign, but it does seem to fit The Donald’s recent crapatcular responses to world events: