I am so embarrassed that some of my neighbors will be there. Oh, the shame.
- If NH is competitive, Hillary is in trouble.
- Obviously this location is perfect for his new black outreach message.
It is so refreshing that he is going to another rally of white people in a state with no black people to ask for the votes of black people who are in other states.
Edit I suggest he go to Harlem to beg for the redneck vote.
Mississippi and now NH?
Is the idea more about spreading his rallies around a bunch of states and areas for the main purpose of being able to fill the rally with people rather than focusing on states that he needs to focus on to actually win. If he wants to win he should be camping out in NV/IA/NC/FL/OH and… even if he picks up all of those he is still behind. Not really sure which state he should go for next to try to hit 270. He would need to pick up something like MN,WI,MI, or PA but none of those are looking good for him at all. But either way if he doesn’t at least get NV,IA,NC,FL,OH than he is not even in the race to win.
But yet he is in NH and MS… When is is rally in TX or ID or WV?
You’ll frequently read that people are leaving long before Trump is finished speaking.
No doubt Katrina would say this is evidence of success, “People are convinced without listening to the whole speech”.
- Not really. NH is the state most likely to put her over 269, but it can be somewhat easily replaced with Nevada, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, or North Carolina. Turning it around if Trump loses PA and NH (and CO, MI, NM, VA) he loses. He has to fight for NH more than Clinton has to.
Yeah going to what i said above, its looking like they are mainly focused on trying to fill seats rather than to help win states. He just wants to do big rallies and he can’t do that in a narrow amount of swing states since he is going to quickly start to not be able to fill the place out, which apparently is already happening.
Does anyone know of a simple list of dates and places trump has had rallies since the primary has finished?
Hell yeah…the gift that keeps on giving…
checks watch
Damn…I gotta git going…oh well.
Never in Idaho…too far away from Trump Towers.
And that is the real reasoning behind the location of his rallies. People keep trying to view in terms of normal politics…“Why is he campaigning in states he already has won or can’t possibly win?”. Because it has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with Trump wanting to make sure he can get back home to his bed.
The rallies that were canceled this week? Colorado, Oregon and Nevada…all west of the Mississippi River. Now there may be some “political” reasoning involved…but its more along the lines of “Trump gets really grumpy, more erratic, when he is too far from home…so don’t do rallies like that anymore”, than it is “we need to shore up our support in state X”.
We simply cannot look at the Trump campaign in terms of “normal” campaigns…because it doesn’t have the necessary staff to be a normal campaign. They continue to be deeply divided and fighting with each other to this day, and are supremely under qualified/experience to work on national campaigns. Hell, just look at this recent hires…Bannon has zero experience working on ANY campaigns, Conway only worked on Akin’s campaign. Neither of them has worked as a campaign manager or even as a senior staffer at this level.
They are out of the depths, trying to learn on the job, with no resources to do the job. And just like with Manafort, they are already getting dragged into spending the majority of their time doing PR work to clean up the latest Trump mess.
A campaign manager works 8x36. They have to be calling state and local area staffers to see where they are in implementing the strategy and find out what is needed. Which means there are constant fires to be put out and constant fights for resources to be had. And then you have to manage the national staff…polling, digital strategy, communications, interviews on the networks, spending time with the candidate, schmoozing other politicians and contacts with the national and state parties.
Conway isn’t doing that. She is specifically hired to work on messaging and do interviews. Bannon isn’t doing that. He was hired to provide "vision"and “long term strategy”. Nobody is doing the daily nuts and bolts stuff that is required and not even magical elves do.
So looking at a dysfunctional mess like that, in terms of “normal” campaign, is pointless.
Uh…no thanks. Unless I want to eat shit sandwiches for lunch, I’ve heard it ad infinitum, or is it ad nauseam. Even if he changes the menu all of a sudden, there are still rats in the back chewing through the inventory of moldy oldies.
538 has NH pretty low on the list for the states that tip the election.
And all recent polls are looking really bad for his chances there.
Not enough people realize that HO does in fact fly home to NY after most every venue he appears in. I think there was one exception in Iowa where he stayed at motel, deemed the pillows comfy and sheets clean. So, not much campaigning where he actually needs to be. But NH’s four electoral votes could the hidden key to victory in trumpworld.
Yeah i was wondering that myself, do you know of a schedule that shows he keeps doing Rally at place X then flies back to NY than next day does another rally then flies back to NY and so on.
And talk about not being able to handle the job… i mean come on if he can’t even handle being away from Trump Tower for a few days…
Many people say the need for familiar sleep surroundings is a sign of early stage dementia. I recommend he see his doc again.
If he ever got in the WH, G-d forfend, he’d still fly back to Grump Tower every night to sleep in his own bed. I wouldn’t put it past him to petition Congress to make the U.S. Capitol NYC instead of D.C either.
New Hampshire? I guess he’s still aggressively courting the African-American vote.
Or maybe a real doc.
Thank you for your insight.