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When your enemy is busy making a mistake, don’t interrupt him.
In any battle it’s a lovely place to find yourself. Shhh! Don’t jinx it!
If I were his campaign manager I would tell Trump to abandon the focus on issues like packing the supreme court and ending the oil industry. That won’t resonate with enough voters and is boring.
I would tell him to continually say that Biden should answer the question “are you the big guy?”
“Aside from that, Mrs. Trump, how was the play?”
“Never fear. The evening was excellent in all respects.”
Taking the question seriously, I’d say just keep doing what you’re doing. A Biden victory is by no means guaranteed, and any sudden reversal on Trump’s part would just cost him votes. The overconfidence of Biden supporters on this board and elsewhere is astounding.
So, you’d advise him to keep pushing discredited conspiracy theories?
He doesn’t need advice for that, he’s doing that anyway.
I’m not really seeing that. I’ve seen it claimed a few times, but I see no evidence whatsoever of anything greater than cautious optimism, and most of the time not even that.
Ha!
(And…good username/post combo)
Ha!!!
My advice:
"Mr. President, the people found a conscience, and they’re going to let you down. Screw them. Time to stop campaigning and think about protecting your ass–I mean brand, protecting your brand. You and I both know those bloodsuckers in New York are gonna go after you as soon as Biden is sworn in. The question is, where are you going to go so they can’t get at you? The options are basically Russia and Russia. Russia? Excellent choice, sr.
"So you go to Russia, maybe broadcast from there for Fox. Keep the name out there, ya know? The brand, yeah. And then when the time is right…Trump University of Novosibrisk. Trumpski brand vodka. Trump Soap…Make Every Shower Golden. You see where I’m going with this?
“Well, Mr. President, I don’t know about that. Vladimir is six years younger than you are. No, sir, please don’t take off your shirt to show me your chest is better than his. OK, OK, fine, one day you could take his job. Yes, sir, that would show him, sir. That would show us all, sir.”
Bravo!!! That was beautiful!
“No, Mr President, I understand you’ve enjoyed trips to Little Saint James island in the past. But you can’t move there to avoid your legal situation. It’s actually American territory and American laws apply there.”
“Yes, Mr President, I was as surprised to learn that as you are.”
As Trump’s campaign manager, my only real job is to divert as much of his campaign funding as possible for myself, while the getting is good. His checks won’t clear if he loses, and I doubt he’ll be giving out victory bonuses if he wins. And I wouldn’t want a job in that garbage-fire administration either.
But, I’m the sort of person who would like to do the job I’m paid to do, which involves not fighting the hypothetical here. So first and foremost I’d advise him stop acting like a doofus about COVID. I would explain to him, like a very small child, that he could trick the media and other opponents by acting serious about COVID, but not following up in any meaningful way. He’d eat it up, and brag at all his rallies about how he’s tricking the media. And honestly, it’s criminal that someone hasn’t had him exploit his “insufferable COVID conqueror” persona more than he has, so I"d have him do more of that.
Also spend time shoring up the battleground states, “blue wall” states, and states where we have actionable court cases to suppress or cast doubt on the election, hoping to kick it to SCOTUS for a Bush-style election-by-selection.
I think I could skim at least a million (if there’s anything left) by telling Trump that this is the best winning strategy, and by not letting anyone tell him that it’s probably not going to be enough to win.
What Trump really needs in a campaign manager is a Bloom to his Bialystock. Someone to explain ways to make more money by losing an election than by winning one.
I’d never take the job, but I think he would need to do more of what worked the first time. “Only I know how to defeat Covid-19, and I’ll implement my perfect plan right after the election, if I win. Only I know how to fix the economy, which I will do on Nov. 4, and we will have the best economy in the history of the world, just like we had before the China virus.” Etc.
Ugh, I feel dirty even typing it. Basically, just take every weakness, and say you have a secret plan for it.
You have a good answer. He could also take some half measures to show that he has done some self-reflection. Release a couple of years of tax returns that don’t show anything too troubling, if that’s possible. Make half-hearted, but sincere sounding apologies to certain people (Cindy McCain). Put up a health care plan that appears nice, there’s only a few days left, so who cares if its workable or even plausible. Just have something to say, “I have released a health care plan that drops rates and protects pre-existing conditions. It saves money by taking out the middle men and special interest.” None of it needs to make sense. It just needs to sound good enough for a week.
All the replies that have been so confident that there is nothing Trump can do at this point seem overly eager to me. I know its not 2016, but the place Trump was at 9 days out in 2016 and where he is today is not THAT different.
Many people already believe that’s what he was trying the last time around and it turned out just the same as in the screenplay.
Plus this time around he IS incumbent.
Do these secret plans involve invading Cambodia?
If Trump would legalize weed, a lot of people that were against him would get high and lose interest in voting.
Hell, he made up shit just to explain why he didn’t win as bigly as he thought he should have in 2016.
You know, it would have been super easy for trump just to turn the handling of the pandemic over to the Doctors.
Everything Trump touches turns to shit. It’s his trademark. Why change now?