The Standard: Donald Trump is ditching the Maga psychos and building a very slick team
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I think its smart for him to ditch idiots like Noem, Lake and MTG for more stable politicos. Bringing in establishment RINO Susan Wiles as a senior advisor to his campaign was a great idea. He needs to lock in moderates and wacky Veeps would not help him in that. MAGA is locked in he can stop catering to their vote. He has it. They are like the muslims to Biden. Where are they going to go? He needs the RINOS and needs to stop calling other republicans who are not all in with him RINOS.
But while Trump refuses to moderate his own behaviour, he is not interested in extending the same leeway to other members of his Make America Great Again (Maga) gang. The election is only seven months away and he knows his freedom from jail could depend on securing the presidency. Trump’s campaign is far more slick and professional than it was in 2016 and 2020 and he is determined not to let anybody else throw it off kilter.
Helping Trump to exert control is Susie Wiles, 66, a veteran Republican operative in Florida who has been described by Politico as the “most admired and feared political operative nobody has ever heard of”. Previously a moderate, she has become Trump’s top strategist and political campaigner.
I think its smart for him to ditch idiots like Noem, Lake and MTG for more stable politicos. Bringing in establishment RINO Susan Wiles as a senior advisor to his campaign was a great idea. He needs to lock in moderates and wacky Veeps would not help him in that. MAGA is locked in he can stop catering to their vote. He has it. They are like the muslims to Biden. Where are they going to go? He needs the RINOS and needs to stop calling other republicans who are not all in with him RINOS.
But while Trump refuses to moderate his own behaviour, he is not interested in extending the same leeway to other members of his Make America Great Again (Maga) gang. The election is only seven months away and he knows his freedom from jail could depend on securing the presidency. Trump’s campaign is far more slick and professional than it was in 2016 and 2020 and he is determined not to let anybody else throw it off kilter.
Helping Trump to exert control is Susie Wiles, 66, a veteran Republican operative in Florida who has been described by Politico as the “most admired and feared political operative nobody has ever heard of”. Previously a moderate, she has become Trump’s top strategist and political campaigner.
Good post, running for the middle right now is what any smart campaign usually does.
Hide the "crazy uncles" and stop pandering the base...switch to wooing moderates is politics 101 at this point.
This assumes that you don't have to worry about an upset base that is fractured, unmotivated to support you etc. which is a challenge Biden is having. If moderates didn't dislike both of these guys it would be a landslide instead of a constested fight for a half dozen swing states.
That being said, you would have to be a complete moron to create sympathy for the devil so to speak....and yet the torrent of legal action against Trump with some of it legit and some woeful stretches of legality has managed to do that.
Actually - the liberal lawfare attacks keep him from doing more public stuff, therefore the behind the scenes team is running more of the campaign.
For those who believe Trump shoots himself in the foot when he talks - the lawfare may be working against them.
I was thinking the same thing.
And speaking of campaigns...
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Trump Is Trying Something New With the 2024 Campaign. It’s Smart—and Terrifying.
…Trump meted out endorsements in midterm races to candidates who did the best Trump impressions, but being weird and appealing to the narrow MAGA base no longer gets the job done.
For example: There are any number of maniacs in the state of Michigan whom Trump could have recruited for the Senate Republican primary. Instead, Trump endorsed Rep. Mike Rogers, a member in good standing in the pre-Trump Republican establishment, a longtime CNN contributor and a former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Rogers is the sort of Republican, in other words, who knows Trump for what he is, and for years struggled to keep that thought to himself. Though Rogers pretended to be an enthusiastic Trumper once he announced his Senate run last year, few found that particularly convincing. He was, however, the strongest Republican in the primary in a state that Trump hopes to flip in November, and so Rogers earned the endorsement. Trump doesn’t want a dingbat dragging him down.
That’s not the only place Trump’s resisted the bait to prop up an extreme candidate. In Montana, Trump endorsed the Senate campaign arm’s recruit Tim Sheehy over Freedom Caucus member Matt Rosendale. The impact of that endorsement was so sharp that Rosendale dropped out days after entering the race. Trump similarly endorsed Senate GOP leaders’ pick of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice in that state’s Senate race, essentially locking up the primary for Justice and forcing Sen. Joe Manchin into retirement. While Trump hasn’t endorsed Larry Hogan in Maryland’s Senate race, he has agreed not to attack him (for now). That’s a big deal, as Trump hates Hogan, and vice versa. https://news.yahoo.com/trump-trying-...094500425.html
I think its smart for him to ditch idiots like Noem, Lake and MTG for more stable politicos. Bringing in establishment RINO Susan Wiles as a senior advisor to his campaign was a great idea. He needs to lock in moderates and wacky Veeps would not help him in that. MAGA is locked in he can stop catering to their vote. He has it. They are like the muslims to Biden. Where are they going to go? He needs the RINOS and needs to stop calling other republicans who are not all in with him RINOS.
[i]But while Trump refuses to moderate his own behaviour, he is not interested in extending the same leeway to other members of his Make America Great Again (Maga) gang. The election is only seven months away and he knows his freedom from jail could depend on securing the presidency. Trump’s campaign is far more slick and professional than it was in 2016 and 2020 and he is determined not to let anybody else throw it off kilter.
Helping Trump to exert control is Susie Wiles, 66, a veteran Republican operative in Florida who has been described by Politico as the “most admired and feared political operative nobody has ever heard of”. Previously a moderate, she has become Trump’s top strategist and political campaigner.
I don't think things are as simple between voting for one party over another party. No, there's always the option of sitting the election out, which can be just as devastating. I bring this up particularly for the Muslim vote in Michigan.
Still, otherwise I agree with you. I think Trump has the MAGA vote regardless as he's already shown that he'll govern in a certain way.
Actually - the liberal lawfare attacks keep him from doing more public stuff, therefore the behind the scenes team is running more of the campaign.
For those who believe Trump shoots himself in the foot when he talks - the lawfare may be working against them.
I agree. While much of the "outrage" against Trump's statements is often contrived and served with a heaping scoop of double standard, Trump not being out on the campaign trail as much I think has helped in that regard as it gives people less to work with from the candidate himself. If Trump was an unknown commodity, that would be problematic. But he's not.
And that's apart from the other impact of this leftist lawfare, which has fired up his base and helped to lead to a voter enthusiasm gap in favor of the GOP.
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I think its smart for him to ditch idiots like Noem, Lake and MTG for more stable politicos. Bringing in establishment RINO Susan Wiles as a senior advisor to his campaign was a great idea. He needs to lock in moderates and wacky Veeps would not help him in that. MAGA is locked in he can stop catering to their vote. He has it. They are like the muslims to Biden. Where are they going to go? He needs the RINOS and needs to stop calling other republicans who are not all in with him RINOS.
What makes her a RINO? According to Politico, anti-Trumpers look at her as a MAGA "accomplice" instead of a RINO.
...For others, though, it’s that placid mien and level head that’s in some sense precisely the source of the confusion. Liberals and even anti-Trump conservatives sketch analogies to the most odious authoritarians and see Wiles therefore by extension as the kind of associate who’s smart enough and sane enough to know better — and without whom any would-be dictator would be unable to get or wield such potentially destructive power. They see her as an accomplice.
She sounds middle of the road, well liked and respected by many on both sides of the aisle, extremely competent at what she does. I can see why Trump has been using her for the past few years, good on him.
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