I’ve noticed the pattern that all of these contrived media outrages take. Trump invariably says something that the media considers outrageous and it results in about 3 days of falling poll numbers. Then the sheep forget about it and Trump rebounds. I think I have figured out Trump’s strategy thus far.
He has always planned to be provocative and outrageous through Labor Day. Think of the narrative he’s produced. Double down on Muslim immigration, branding Clinton and Obama the heads of ISIS, Clinton’s as corrupt, dissing Ryan McCain and Ayotte and lumping the press in as Crooked with Hillary. Come September, he will unleash an air campaign on her, reinforcing the points he just made the past month. The debates will be key. Nobody likes Hillary. It’s a polling fact that her numbers go down when people are exposed to her. Trump just needs to sound reasonable. But the biggest thing he has to do is to make no unforced errors the last 2 weeks. He cannot give the media any excuse to create a BS issue against him. Stay on message and I think he wins this thing about 303-235.
Your assessment is right on; but people are also getting wise to the media’s game. Pence and Manafort’s media spots will no doubt help for a few weeks.
There’s no way the MSM is going to let Trump off their hook. If they have to, they’ll create a scandal like they did the 92 election with GHWB. I hope Trump is totally ready for it. I’ve never seen such media corruption.