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We now know exactly how Donald Trump is going to try to get reelected
CNN Politics ^ | October 31, 2019 | Chris Cillizza, Editor-at-large

Posted on 10/31/2019 6:49:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

During Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump's campaign launched a seven-figure national ad buy -- a 30-second commercial touting his first-term accomplishments on terrorism, the economy and immigration.

But the real key to the ad -- and the bit that you need to pay very close attention to -- comes in the final moments of the commercial, when the narrator says this:

"He's no Mr. Nice Guy. But sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to change Washington."

Those two sentences are hugely telling when it comes to understanding how Trump (and his campaign) are going to position him in the race for a second term next November.

What's clear from that tag line -- "no Mr. Nice Guy ... sometimes you need a Donald Trump" -- is that the campaign understands how poorly the President is perceived on a bevy of personality traits. He's not seen as friendly. Or kind. Or empathetic. Or even really, someone you'd want to spend a bunch of time around.

This ad tries to turn those traits on their head. Rather than being regarded as a negative for Trump, his campaign is trying to argue that in order to fix a place as broken as Washington, you need someone who doesn't care about whether you like him. Or whether anyone likes him. Who only cares about results.

In a bumper sticker, the campaign messaging that this ad appears to preview goes like this: Yes, he's a jerk. But he's a jerk who gets results!

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; maga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Great economy, peace and stability, no wars, energy independence, national safety, crazy vile democrat opposition, jobs jobs jobs. Don’t think he needs to try too hard.


21 posted on 10/31/2019 7:08:06 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Jonty30

“He’s going to run for office?”

Yep!


22 posted on 10/31/2019 7:08:12 PM PDT by madison10
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yay! CNN still does not get why they are losing.


23 posted on 10/31/2019 7:09:12 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If I'm a democrat, and therefore CNN is someone I look too - that is the most patronizing article I've every read. How stupid would you have to be to not understand that the message is 'you may not like him but he gets sh*t done'.

And then they actually imply that it's bad to have a president who's main quality is getting things done rather than being someone a voter wants to hug and tell all his problems to.

In my view ... good news that this is what the media thinks they need to teach their useful idiots. They REALLY think they are idiots. I mean, democrats aren't that bright when it comes to how to govern, but this is really really patronizing. Love it.

24 posted on 10/31/2019 7:09:35 PM PDT by tinyowl
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Yes, he’s a jerk. But he’s a jerk who gets results!”

If that’s what the Dem-Media Complex really needs to get them through to 2021 and a Trump blowout, that’s okay. Nobody cares about them anyway.


25 posted on 10/31/2019 7:11:15 PM PDT by LouieFisk (https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/10/16/trump-letter-to-turkeys-erdogan-dont-be-a-foo)
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To: MayflowerMadam

He needs to start playing Alice’s No More Mr Nice Guy at rallies. :D


26 posted on 10/31/2019 7:12:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
is that the campaign understands how poorly the President is perceived on a bevy of personality traits

By who? You? CNN? The media? The Left? Academia? Hollywood? Environmentalists? Climate change advocates? Pro-abortionists? Feminists? Race baiters? LBGQT's?

Yes, of course.

But for the vast, silent majority, he's a great guy who loves his country and his personality is just fine.

27 posted on 10/31/2019 7:13:38 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“He’s a jerk, but he is our jerk”

Nice guys sold us out for the last 4 decades

Screw that crap


28 posted on 10/31/2019 7:16:11 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
:::::Yes, he's a jerk. But he's a jerk who gets results!:::::

If that what it takes. But I substitute "jerk" for "Very Stable Genius".

29 posted on 10/31/2019 7:16:45 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Mccain suspending his campaign is an example..but I never considered him a nice guy


30 posted on 10/31/2019 7:17:36 PM PDT by RummyChick ("Pills, money .. this city is wicked. Your best friend will kill you here." Smoove about Baltimore)
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To: tinyowl

I watched the ad listing everything he has accomplished and could just have easily ended with “no mister nice guy finishing last, I’m winning for you the American people. “


31 posted on 10/31/2019 7:18:46 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: RummyChick

McCain was really nice to those terrorists

Just because he hates Americans doesn’t mean he wasn’t a nice guy to our enemies and elites

They all play along to get along, except Trump


32 posted on 10/31/2019 7:20:03 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What's clear from that tag line -- "no Mr. Nice Guy ... sometimes you need a Donald Trump" -- is that the campaign understands how poorly the President is perceived on a bevy of personality traits. He's not seen as friendly. Or kind. Or empathetic. Or even really, someone you'd want to spend a bunch of time around.

Foreground that the candidate is a wonderful guy you'd love to have a beer with, and rumors and grumbling circulate in the background.

Say upfront that he may not be a nice guy but that he gets results, and the background chatter is that he may not be such an awful guy after all.

It's what DDB used to do for Volkswagen. Put the bad things people are saying about your product in the add - along with the good things - and you neutralize your critics.

You can see a little of that in Nixon's advertising and even in Reagan's bear in the woods ad: sometimes you need a bad@ss to get things done.

Maybe Hillary Clinton would have benefited from that kind of campaign: say that she was the scary one, but that sometimes you need somebody scary to get things done.

33 posted on 10/31/2019 7:21:47 PM PDT by x
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34 posted on 10/31/2019 7:22:03 PM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just am mystified by the arrogance. Trump was elected by the choice of the voters. The author makes that seem irrelevant like it was a small detail worth not mentioning......


35 posted on 10/31/2019 7:23:38 PM PDT by blackdog
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cillizza, you’re a sorry, lying POS.You’re part of the problem in this country and the more people find out just how you and your ilk are helping the Demonrats destroy this country, you’ll be lucky to sell newspapers on the corner when CNN and the rest go UNDER! And by the way, the President has it all over you and the other clowns on fake news. People love him, want to be around him and appreciate him because he does what he says he will do, he loves this country and he loves people and wants the best for them. This will be abundantly clear come 2020. I can’t wait to see a “repeat on steroids” when the votes are counted and the idiots sit around the newsroom and cry like little girls!!!


36 posted on 10/31/2019 7:24:02 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes. We love him because he fights for us. Aside from Ronald Reagan 30+ years ago, no one has done that for us Republicans since. We choose a bare knuckle brawler to take this country back! Funny that the idiots at CNN are getting a clue. But it won’t last!


37 posted on 10/31/2019 7:25:40 PM PDT by RocketMan1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Twitter has banned political ads. Just imagine if the networks banned political ads.


38 posted on 10/31/2019 7:25:44 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What insight!

What brilliance!

*spit*


39 posted on 10/31/2019 7:28:01 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is going to get re-elected by popularity.

What a dirty trick! :)


40 posted on 10/31/2019 7:28:22 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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