Thread: The power of Trump’s streamlined campaign

Republican front-runner Donald Trump stands with law enforcement officers during a campaign stop in West Allis, Wisconsin on Monday. (Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.)

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times - Monday, April 4, 2016

Presidential rivals have telling numbers beyond polls. Consider that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s campaign spent $51 million on TV and radio ads last month, while her GOP counterpart Donald Trump spent nothing according to Ad Age. But wait. He still managed to garner 72 percent of the broadcast coverage says a new analysis from the Media Research Center. Meanwhile, Mrs. Clinton has seven times as many people on her campaign staff as Mr. Trump, her team operating from an 80,000 square-foot office in Brooklyn.

“Trump’s campaign employs a core team of about a dozen people; his campaign lists 94 people on the payroll nationwide, according to the latest Federal Election Commission filing. Hillary Clinton has 765. Trump has no pollsters, no media coaches, or speech writers. He focus-groups nothing. He buys few ads, and when he does, he likes to write them himself. He also writes his own tweets, his main vehicle for communicating with his supporters. And it was his idea to adopt Ronald Reagan’s slogan ‘make America great again,’” writes New York Magazine correspondent Gabriel Sherman, who recently visited the candidate at his Manhattan campaign headquarters to find them scarcely as big as a campus newspaper office.

“I’m the strategist,” Mr. Trump told her.

“Which would make him, no matter what your feelings about his beliefs or qualifications to run a country, one of the greatest political savants of the modern era,” Ms. Sherman observes.

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“Which would make him, no matter what your feelings about his beliefs or qualifications to run a country, one of the greatest political savants of the modern era,” Ms. Sherman observes.

That's because he's one of the greatest business executives of the modern era in a business that earns its money through high risk real estate ventures from hard and complex construction in difficult areas to build in.

Now what do you have when you add the two:

Greatest Political Savant + Greatest Business Executive = Greatest President of the United States