Discussion: Trump Won't Change His Style For General Election: 'I Have A Mandate'

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‘I Have A Mandate’

what’s his name? does your wife know?

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“The people are tired of incompetent leadership at the highest level.”

Let’s talk about all your bankruptcies–how many is it again?

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Moronic Know-Nothing candidate of a moronic know-nothing party. He has no concept of the thermonuclear obliteration they’re going to experience in the general…though I think McConnell and Graham are starting to grasp the outlines…

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You win the pennant and now you’re in the World Series — you gonna change?

What he’s not getting is that he no longer has the home field advantage. In the general, it’s not just RWNJ’s who will be voting.

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Umm…he doesn’t even have a majority of the republican primary votes. In fact, he isn’t even close.

So less a mandate and more slipping through the cracks caused by too many candidates.

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             "People like the way I’m doing."

Oh… My …

I’m really going to miss " coherent sentences " —

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Trump seemed to think that if he won the primary with large rallies and Twitter attacks, the same methods would win him the presidency.

“You win the pennant and now you’re in the World Series — you gonna change?” he told the Times. “People like the way I’m doing.”

Yep. And how many of us here said he wouldn’t change for the General Election because he didn’t have anything else?

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Well, it’s statistically likely for his insanity to work in our favor eventually, and he we are. #NeverChangeTrump

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Trump: “Oh three or four…”

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You do you, Donnie. I think I speak for most of us here at TPM when I say that’s just the way we like it. Be your special snowflake dumbass self, that’ll be fine.

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Sure, he has a mandate to:

-be a giant, leaping a-hole
-bankrupt the USA
-hate all who aren’t rich and look like him
-destroy our safety nets
-(add you comments here)

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The problem is that his followers won’t believe that he’s been bankrupt- morally or fiscally- and anything you or I or anyone else says about them is a lie…of course, people will find out just how incompetent our leadership can be if he ever takes the oath of office.

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“I think I have a mandate from the people,” he said. “The people are tired of incompetent leadership at the highest level. They’re tired of trade deals that are ripping our jobs apart and taking their wages.”

Thursday should be interesting…

“You win the pennant and now you’re in the World Series — you gonna change?” he told the Times. “People like the way I’m doing.”

All managers change some part of their game plan, because everyone is infatuated with winning streaks.

“In a Broadway theater, the best, the best, absolute best sale is called ‘word of mouth,’” he told the Times. “If people love a Broadway show, it’s better than if you write a good review. Word of mouth is the No. 1 thing. And the word of mouth at my rallies is like, ‘You’ve got to go see it.’ And, you know, one person goes and they talk about it to 20 people.”

Trump-the musical

Catch it now, because its final performance will likely be November 9th.

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I’m thinking Mr. Trump doesn’t know what ‘mandate’ means – certainly not in the political election sense.

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Interviewer: “Doesn’t that speak directly to your qualification to be President? You were completely unable to manage private businesses without declaring bankruptcies; how are the American people supposed to trust that you would have any greater competency as President?”

Okay, I can dream–right?

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Ah! So Donald “the draft dodging coward” Trump will continue to act like the spoiled, small-handed brat that he has always been. What could go wrong with that?

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I think it’s helpful to assume that everything Trump knows about the world outside his penthouse is pretty much learned by walking past wall-mounted TVs. So his understanding of “mandate” is “I can do whatever I feel like because lots of people voted for me.” Anything more sophisticated is out of his range.

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So, he thinks the angry, aging, undereducated white people who’ve been filling his rallies and cheering his racist call-outs are “the American People” and as long as he’s packing them in, he’s got the election in the bag?

And here people were wondering if he was real Republican . . .

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I’m good with that.

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