Thread: The Magic Pill - How Trump Can Repair His Campaign

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THE MAGIC PILL — HOW TRUMP CAN REPAIR HIS CAMPAIGN

by admin/ August 4, 2016/ POLITICS
By Dennis Michael Lynch

During my 2014 speaking tour I was asked time and again, “DML, who would you support for president in 2016?” My answer: “Donald Trump.”

Long before Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015, I knew America wanted an outsider with business experience. The perfect candidate would be a person who tells it like it is — a person who won’t apologize for believing the country needs a heavy dose of tough love. Trump, despite his over-sized ego and less-than-successful marital history, offered that sort of candidacy.

I knew Trump had what it takes to win. He had the name recognition and celebrity needed to spark voter interest, he had a strong understanding of TV and media, he had a history of being unapologetic, and he was a master at dominating the headlines. Most importantly, he was well-versed when it comes to business, creating jobs, and igniting the economy. With wages down and joblessness growing like a cancer, I knew voters would listen to what Trump had to say.

And then, on the day he announced, when he lashed out at illegal immigration, I knew he’d win the nomination in a landslide. How right I was!

The 2016 presidential election should be an absolute layup for Republicans. The fact that so many people flooded to a socialist like Bernie Sanders is proof that the Left agrees with the Right in its opposition to Bill and Hillary.

Obama 44 072216Notwithstanding the extreme Left, I feel that Americans of all religions, sex, race, and party affiliations have had enough of Obama’s policies and thus, stand ready to give the Republicans another crack at bringing back the Reagan years.

To support my claim, look at the lopsided 2014 elections. Obama’s 6 horrific years in office pushed blue states to vote for Republican governors, and voters across America handed over the House and Senate to the GOP in epic fashion. That said, with Hillary as the Democratic nominee, the Republican candidate for president should be sunbathing in the Hamptons right now with a 10-point lead. But it’s not the case.

According to a recent poll published by Fox News, Hillary has a 10-point lead over Trump, and I fear the lead will grow bigger. My reason for concern is because the billionaire businessman doesn’t know how to fish for tuna.

Imagine the best lobsterman on the entire east coast entering a tuna-fishing contest in Hawaii. Should the lobsterman bring his lobster cage to catch a tuna? No, of course not. He is fishing in new waters and the prize is a much bigger fish that requires much bigger bait cast by an entirely different tool. But for some reason Trump doesn’t see this. Trump is bringing his cage to the tuna contest because the cage is all he knows.

During the primaries Trump was one lobsterman amid 17 lobstermen fishing in a bay. His elbow-swinging tactics and harsh one-liners did the trick. His cage caught the most attention from voters, his bait lured the lights and cameras, and he navigated the anti-Obama crowd to his rallies. Trump mastered the cage and it won him the nomination. But now it’s time to fish for the undecided voters who will decide the election. These voters are like the big tuna who swim in the ocean. But to hook them Trump has to out-fish the liberal media who for some reason put the great white shark (Hillary) in front of the tuna.

Clinton is better financed than Jeb; she is more cunning than Cruz; she has a better staff than Rubio; and she has more supporters in the media than Dr. Carson had fans from the Tea Party.

Trump’s inability to fish for tuna is killing his campaign, and to be completely honest, he has caught me off guard. I thought he’d adapt by now. I can’t understand why he continues to use his lobster cage. Obviously, he isn’t catching a damn thing!

Some of the pro-Trump pundits and self-proclaimed know-it-alls say it all comes down to the debates. No, it does not — they are wrong, again.

The debates are too late. If Hillary holds on to a 10-point lead, and if Gary Johnson is permitted to participate in the debates, then Trump is dead in the water.

As I see it, Trump has a few days, at best, to right the ship. Assuming he does, he then has 40-days to chip away at Hillary’s ten-point lead. Here is how he does it:

1) Trump must stop talking about Mr. Khan. Move on.

2) Trump must stop talking about yesterday. He must focus on tomorrow.

3) Trump must stop taking every interview offered to him.

4) Trump needs to explain why he isn’t endorsing McCain or Ryan in their respective primaries. And the REASON SHOULD BE that Trump believes the voters must decide the outcome on their own. But he should punctuate the statement by saying that if either of the men do win, that he will support them each in November for as long as they abandon their current stance on legalizing illegal aliens. Otherwise, he doesn’t endorse either of them.

5) He needs to fire Paul Manafort who (a) allowed Ted Cruz to take the stage at the DNC, (b) allowed Melania Trump to read a speech filled with similar comments made by Michele Obama, and (c) gives off the sort of impression one gets from the shady manager at a used car lot.

Based on what I see, Trump does not hold the sort of respect for Manafort that a candidate must hold for his or her campaign manager. In my opinion, the only way to save his campaign is by hiring the ONLY person who Trump will listen to. And that person is his daughter, Ivanka.

Ivanka is Trump’s greatest weapon.

The minute he fires Manafort and hires Ivanka, Trump immediately moves the narrative away from Mr. Khan, and Paul Ryan, and all the ugliness of the past two weeks.

Once he announces her as campaign manager, he and she must disappear for two-days. Meaning, they do not speak to the press, and they do not blast out a single tweet unless it’s in relation to breaking news. This makes the press hungry for what they love to eat. Meanwhile, Trump stays silent and regroups.

And then, with his tuna pole in hand, on the 3rd day Trump returns to the stump. He showers voters with the stuff that matters (ISIS, jobs, immigration, and trade deals). He speaks from a teleprompter and he speaks for no more than 15-minutes. He shakes a few hands and then walks off the stage leaving the media in a frenzy because the only bait they have to chew on is a list of strong sound bites from a strong leader who is determined to make America great again.

From that day forward it’s always the same routine, and Ivanka is always by her father’s side. She stands there with a timer and ensures her father talks for no more than 15-minutes at a rally. During his limited TV interviews, she is off camera when he is on camera — but she remains in clear view. She provides the eye-to-eye support he needs to keep him focused on the issues. (Side note… she alone selects the interviews he does and does not do.)

I mean no disrespect to Mr. Trump, nor am I losing sight of his amazing accomplishment by winning the nomination, but the ocean is much bigger than the bay, and it’s clear Trump is having a hard time adjusting. Remember, Hillary has been lurking these waters for 40-years. She’s a killer out for blood.

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Dear Judy, thank you for posting the DML story.

This is an opinion piece. The polls cannot be trusted but they should not be ignored. There is a concentrated effort by polling firms, the media, Republicans and Democrats in high places, elites, world leaders, globalists, others to stop Donald Trump at all costs. They want to dispirit the American people. Donald Trump will break up and expose their cronyism and global efforts to dissolve our sovereignty as well as our borders as they bask in the power and rake in the dollars.

TRUMP'S GOT THIS!! IF WE'VE ALL GOT HIS BACK!

Look at that silly Adam Kinzinger from Illinois and the phony Charlie Dent from Pennsylvania, making big whoopee over Media incomplete, out of context, "sound bytes" that deliver a false picture of Trump. Trump never disrespected the Khan family, Trump has never disrespected anyone except an opponent in a counter-punch. Trump told the truth about illegal aliens from Mexico. Trump told the truth about the Khan family. Trump told the truth about the Judge treating him unfairly. Trump tells the truth about women and only attacks them the same as men, when they attack him. The truth is not our enemy, it is our friend.

You listen to these weak silly members of Congress like Kinzinger and Dent, and it's absolutely CLEAR why our country is in such a mess. They are the dumbest most irrational group of people ever assembled. They claim they want to retain majorities in the House and Senate and their solution is to attack and abandon our Republican candidate for President and vote for a Democrat or not vote at all. Please explain to me how this will preserve majorities in the US Congress for Republicans??!! Well of course it won't. It will do the complete opposite. This is how STUPID and INCOMPETENT members of the US Congress who have allowed our country to be flooded by 30 million illegal aliens, thousands of Radical Islamic Terrorists, bankrupted our government and impoverished our citizens while erasing our borders and sovereignty.

SAVE AMERICA!

STAY TRUE!! STAY TRUMP!!

VOTE FOR DONALD J TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!

Oh, now you are admitting something is wrong with his campaign?

It is the candidate himself. Poor listener, living in the days when this style worked for the primaries. Sadly, most of you are blaming everything and everyone but the candidate himself. Handing the election to Hillary is treasonous and not even his daughter can save him.

Trump needs to get rid of paul manafort, he is the screw up in the campaign.......he seems like a plant & a conman.

How could he personally support ryan & manage Trump's campaign, how could pence, the vp pick support ryan - how could trump let this happen? Manafort hasn't improved anything, only Trump has improved his chances by working hard. What good has manafort done?

Manafort on Trump: 'He’s going to support Paul Ryan'

Eliza Collins, USA TODAY 10:02 a.m. EDT August 4, 2016

Paul Manafort, campaign manager for Donald Trump, is interviewed on the floor of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 17, 2016. (Photo: Win McNamee, Getty Images)


Donald Trump’s campaign manager said “there’s conflict within the Trump campaign” over the Republican nominee not endorsing the House speaker, but that Trump will eventually support Paul Ryan in the election because his opponent won’t win the primary.

"Of course he's gonna work with Paul Ryan, of course he’s trying to bridge the party with Paul Ryan," Manafort said on ABC’s Good Morning America Thursday. "But Paul Ryan is running against someone who's not going to win but nonetheless he is a strong supporter of Mr. Trump."

On Tuesday, Trump told The Washington Post he was “just not quite there yet” on endorsing Ryan. He also said he has "never been there" with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and criticized Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H. Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has enthusiastically endorsed Ryan.

Trump and Ryan’s opponent, Wisconsin businessman Paul Nehlen, have exchanged praise of each other.

Also Thursday on CBS This Morning, Manafort echoed that Trump would work with the House speaker, saying “there’s no issue about that.”

“He’s going to support Paul Ryan, he does support Paul Ryan, he said he’s going to work with Paul Ryan. There’s no issue about that. He didn’t take a position in the primary, he didn’t take a position in many primaries. That’s not the news,” Manafort said. “The news is the two of them working together to elect a Republican Congress and a Republican president, and I think you’re going to see that,”

Manafort said that he personally supports Ryan and then had a strange slip-up: “I support him as a speaker and I know after next week I’m going to be supporting him as a candidate for president, too. Uh, I mean, for —"

When pressed about what he meant (there have been rumors and speculation that Republicans are trying to get Trump to drop out following a rough week for the candidate), Manafort dismissed the slip-up.


Manafort also attempted some clean-up following a tumultuous week for Trump’s campaign by saying that there was plenty of time to get things together because “campaigns don’t even start until September.”

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Trump needs to rehire Corey Lewandowski and stop listening to Jared Kushner. Jared may be really smart, and capable, but he's young and a political novice. He doesn't understand important relationships. Maybe Manafort was the right decision for the convention delegate issues, he did a great job there, I guess. Don't know if he was really responsible or it was just Trump getting the votes. Either way, that's over and we're back on the trail. For the trail, Trump needs Corey.

REHIRE COREY NOW!!

Hiring Corey is going backwards and ending the campaign.

Manafort got Trump out of the huge ditch he buried himself in with the Mexican-American judge. (Poor focus and total waste of time) His campaign is in a ditch again, BTW.

Manafort also secured the delegate math and guaranteed victory when there was uncertainty and an expected battle to take place if 1236 was not attained while both Cruz and K were still in the race.

Manafort helped build the national campaign out and attract basic ingredients necessary to battle the Clinton machine.

Manafort was instrumental in uniting the GOP with Trump as best as he could. Candidate does not want to stay on message.

Manafort is unable to control candidate anymore and all is just about lost at this point if candidate does not want to stay focused and win.

Trump cannot win without more support which comes from the base.

What you really think and want will not get him into the White House next year.

Manafort is unable to control candidate anymore and all is just about lost at this point if candidate does not want to stay focused and win.

I don't think most Trump Supporters want someone to control our candidate. We want him to have people who understand him, who helped him win elections in 38 states. This is no longer a delegate issue, this is about winning state elections, and there's only one person who knows how to help Trump do that who has a proven record of doing it, and that is Corey Lewandowski.