Allahpundit:
Why not? The guy’s worth $10 billion, right? He could have liquidated 20 percent of his assets, blitzed Hillary with a national ad campaign and the best ground game anyone’s ever seen, and given his nationalist fan base a meaningful chance to capture the White House this fall. This is what’s so maddening about fanboys like Hannity sniffing around for #NeverTrumpers to blame. Between his (alleged) wealth and his media megaphone, Trump has some of the most formidable advantages a Republican presidential nominee has ever enjoyed. Having watched him squander those advantages so thoroughly as to leave him 10 points back in must-win Pennsylvania, his supporters should be angry enough to choke him. Is leaving an inheritance of $2 billion a piece for his kids so important to Trump that he’s prepared to crap away a chance at the White House over it? Can Ivanka and Don Jr not get by on $1.5 billion each instead? For fark’s sake.
Which reminds me, good news: Big spender’s finally ready, in mid-August, to start putting some ads up against Clinton.
As he continues to slip in the polls, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is poised to begin airing his first television ads of the general election starting Friday in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, according to a campaign adviser…
Mr. Trump, who frequently boasts that he beat several primary challengers who spent far more money than he did, has yet to air a single television ad since he clinched the nomination. Mr. Trump spent only $20 million on ads through May—compared with $62 million by Democrat Hillary Clinton.
In the past two months, Mrs. Clinton has spent about $61 million on general election ads, while pro-Clinton outside groups have spent another $43 million, according to NBC News.
Watch below as Conway defines her new role in the campaign. She’s an interesting hire as a complement to Bannon. If Bannon is true to form, his chief role will be encouraging Trump to be Trump, never mind what Paul Manafort says. Conway is a pro, though, with extensive experience in polling. If anyone inside Team Trump has bought into the “skewed polls!” nonsense peddled by some of Trump’s fans, she assuredly hasn’t. She knows what Trump’s up against, which makes me wonder how she and Bannon are possibly going to coordinate the direction of the campaign. If Bannon tells Trump to get angrier and to start attacking the GOP establishment, what does Conway, who knows what the numbers on “temperament” look like, say to that? If Bannon wants Trump to revisit Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky fiasco and Conway concludes that’ll backfire by making women more sympathetic to Hillary, who wins?
My hunch is that Conway was brought in less for purposes of steering the campaign than as a way to show the Republican establishment that Trump is still listening to people they respect:
It’s becoming more questionable if Trump has $10 billion or even $10 million or for all we know, $10,000.
Unless this shake up pulls off a bump (which is comical), those big donors are less apt to bet on a lame horse. So guess which horse they’ll start putting their money down on.
As far as him doing well in the primaries, he got about 13 million votes. It takes like 65 million to win the WH and he ain’t looking good. This new unbridled Trump will likely re-energize some of them but that’s about it.
The very very best thing the GOP can do at this point is to dump Trump and focus their resources on saving their sorry asses in down ballet seats. Otherwise, they may very well be done.
@Ajay42302:
If they dump Trump, the GOP will be well and truely done. They will never win another Presidential election – they will go the way of the Whig Party.
Which for the country will probably be a good thing. It’s time for a 3rd party to step into the gap the GOP has left.
@Dreadnought:
Trump is very unlikely to win the WH.
Now that he’s gone back to a sticking with a “just be Trump” stratagem, the more likely he is to alienate more factions of voters.
The more GOP candidates backing this bigoted con man insistent on maintaining a self destructive campaign, the more they endanger themselves. A dog catcher supporting Trump will have a hard fight.
The GOP already had a challenge keeping the Senate prior to Trump. Now Ds may possibly get a fillibuster proof Senate along with the lower chamber in jeopardy.
From my perspective, I love it and accordingly, Go Trump! I’m just saying it would be advantageous for the Rs to cut their loses and save what possible seats they can save and possibly regroup to fight another day.
Or they can follow Trump down the rabbit hole.