I hope he drops a big one today in his speech in Dimondale (near Lansing) Michigan. The national spotlight is fun if fleeting, but I hope our local Trumpians don’t look as brain-dead as their kinfolk around the country. I’m just glad the site is nowhere near my commute so I won’t have traffic to worry about.
New York State, not just NYC. And, the only reason it’s really noteworthy is that Trump has repeatedly (and, clearly, delusionally) said that he believes he can win in New York.
Yep, it is really sad in Trump’s case when even supporters of Trump that rely a lot on ignorant talking points actually know better than Trump does about what to do regarding NY in an election.
AFAIK Trump is saddling the RNC with the task to develop the ground game in NY; because, “aw shucks”, Trump does really think that all minorities and women love him. Fine with me because that means less money for other races that the RNC could fund. And a nice demonstration of the ongoing Trump craziness.
I am really really really curious to see how you’ll act when Trump loses in November. Alas, you’ll probably disappear and never come back. 
RCP average has narrowed a point or two recently, now 6.0 among head to heads, 5.5 among polls allowing minor candidates. I think it just wastes electrons when people argue by referring to individual polls. A particular poll might have some interesting internals or something, and all the polls avg’d could be off*, but there’s almost by definition no way to know that or which direction if so.
Trump could finally start focusing more on running a real campaign (not just rallies and speaking off the cuff at each one with whatever comes into his head, let alone Tweeting late at night over various slights by various extraneous people like those in his own party, particular media people etc). It’s really just speculating to say he absolutely can’t do that. The question is whether it’s enough to actually win, not just get closer.
*Obama did more 2% points better in the actual election than the final RCP average, though many Romney supporters said/hoped/wished the polls were understating Romney’ position rather than Obama’s. It doesn’t necessarily mean the polls now are tilted against Clinton though just because she and Obama are from the same party, the situation could be different this time. No solid reason to think they’re tilted against Trump either though.
Him getting it together was a possibility - but much less of one now that he has chosen people with not the slightest interest in him being presidential and making policy points, let alone running a reasonable campaign.
Maybe after the next shakeup.
Trump’s pitch to black voters:
-Give Trump a chance.
-It will be amazing.
-What the hell do you have to lose?
better question is " what will you do if Trump wins " ? :rolleyes:
he’ll prolly continue w/ that line.
gotta be positive.
highly unlikely … but a radical Islamic terror attack in NY could change things too.
Of course, deflect the question. Classic Trump tactic. Why don’t you answer the question and maybe I will answer yours after?
if Trump loses i’ll still be around.
if Mccain & Romney loses didn’t change me… a Trump loss surely won’t.
What a cheerful, positive, wish! [sarcasm]
Like past fellows that wanted to see a palace of government burn to get their political wishes.
Convicted Contemnor, I learned something then, but leave it to Arpaio to reach for the [del]gold[/del] conviction type that he mostly deserves.
Real lunatic buddies of Trump indeed… Also criminal in nature.
Of the two new people he brought in, Conway is a pretty conventional GOP political operative, was with a Cruz PAC most recently. The Breitbart guy isn’t. So again seems to be just speculation to say Trump can’t run a real campaign. ‘Reasonable’ not to quibble too much about semantics, would seem to open the possibility of having positions you think are ‘reasonable’. I’m not talking about that, but for example just having a message each day or group of contiguous days and sticking to it. Or, going to Louisiana to ‘show you care’. Again, if you hate Trump the latter is just viewed as dishonest, which maybe it is. However it is a regular campaign. Just holding rallies in random places (Connecticut he virtually can’t win, Mississippi he virtually can’t lose) and speaking off the cuff, saying you’re not running against Hillary but the press, talking about losing…is not.
And I’d say on the recent evidence he’s running more of a regular campaign since the shake up. And I believe that will show up in tighter polls. But again ultimately from Trump’s POV* he doesn’t have to be closer, he has to be ahead. That I doubt he can achieve just by sticking to the past week’s MO. He needs big debate victories (unlikely IMO) or a some big external Trump-friendly event (pure speculation). And fair enough, it’s not in any way certain he can continue running a regular campaign rather than back to multi-day stories about some extraneous ridiculous thing he said.
*the elected GOP at this point is probably fine with a fairly close Trump loss, current polls imply some down ballot damage but not a catastrophe, and if he can narrow it a couple of % points I think most of elected GOP would gladly take that at this point.
Did you not see where he visited flood-ravaged Louisiana and personally delivered much needed stocks of Play-Doh?
You joined in 2016. You were not around back then. Unless you are admitting to being a sock of another poster…
I don’t see any reason to get worried just yet. It’s not as if Trump hasn’t went silent before. He still winds up saying something. We’ve got to just keep giving him things to say. Make him want to lash out.
Trump courted authoritarians, and now he’s well known for saying anti-military things. I wouldn’t be concerned at all unless he flat out refutes those. Not just an idle “I said some things I didn’t mean.” Authoritarians love our military.
The ads write themselves.
I’m waiting for him to say something about Jesus.
“I prefer my messiahs to be winners. Winners don’t go and get themselves crucified. Stupid loser Jesus.”
We’re repeating each other:
I like yours better!