Trump prepared to give ‘whatever resources needed’ to win Virginia

WTVR_TV ^ | October 17, 2016 | CNN Wire

[2ndDivisionVet]

After seeing reports last week that his campaign was pulling out of Virginia, Donald Trump picked up the phone and called his Virginia state director Mike Rubino to deliver a very clear message: he will not withdraw, and will give Rubino whatever resources needed to win the Old Dominion.

To back that up, CNN is told the Trump campaign plans to go on the air with television ads in Virginia starting Tuesday in what campaign officials say is a $2 million buy in “key markets” through election day.

Sources familiar with that conversation tell CNN that Trump was not happy with what they say was a botched message from Trump campaign headquarters in New York to field staff in Virginia. The message was supposed to be that Team Trump wanted to send a handful of his staff in Virginia to North Carolina to help with early voting....

[conservativepoet]

Trump going to show the GOP how to win!!!!!!!!!!!

[Raycpa]

Didn’t sound like Trump.

[HokieMom]

Virginia is one of those areas where, I believe, is a HUUUGe silent Trump vote due to so many Dems who think nothing of resorting to vandalism or who will use it to end one’s career. Very lackluster HRC support compared to BO 8 & 4 years ago. Some FeeltheBern stickers remain and the only Hillary ones I see are parked at the Dem HQ in the parking lot. The enthusiasm gap is high here and Trump is a fighter unlike Romney who quit about now four years ago.

[loveliberty2]

Thank you for "How Can Any American?"

Your Item 6, second paragraph, is of singular importance, for it addresses the very heart and soul of the "unique idea"* upon which American liberty was formed--that rights are "Creator-endowed," thus, "inalienable."

Hillary Clinton's deeply-held "Progressive" regressive ideology turns the Founders' underlying premise for the written Constitution's protections for life upside down, on the Progressive movement's assumption that some human beings have an extra-Constitutional right to determine who lives and who dies.

After all, the "life" question is at the very heart and soul of the "unique idea"* upon which American liberty was formed--that rights are "Creator-endowed," thus, "inalienable."

Hillary Clinton's deeply-held "Progressive" regressive ideology turns the Founders' underlying premise for the written Constitution's protections for life upside down, on the Progressive movement's assumption that some human beings have an extra-Constitutional right to determine who lives and who dies.

The following essay quoted with permission from the Bicentennial (1987) Edition of Our Ageless Constitution discusses the uniquely American Constitutional concept for self-government by "We, the People."

Our Constitution embodied a UNIQUE IDEA. Nothing like it had ever been done before. The power of the idea was in the recognition that people's rights are granted directly by the Creator - not by the state - and that the people, then, and only then, grant rights to government. The concept is so simple, yet so very fundamental and far-reaching.

CREATOR

People

Government

America's founders embraced a previously unheard-of political philosophy which held that people are "...endowed BY THEIR CREATOR with certain unalienable rights...." This was the statement of guiding principle for the new nation, and, as such, had to be translated into a concrete charter for government. The Constitution of The United States of America became that charter.

Other forms of government, past and present, rely on the state as the grantor of human rights. America's founders, however, believed that a government made up of imperfect people exercising power over other people should possess limited powers. Through their Constitution, they wished to "secure the blessings of liberty" for themselves and for posterity by limiting the powers of government. Through it, they delegated to government only those rights they wanted it to have, holding to themselves all powers not delegated by the Constitution. They even provided the means for controlling those powers they had granted to government.

This was the unique American idea. Many problems we face today result from a departure from this basic concept. Gradually, other "ideas" have influenced legislation which has reversed the roles and given government greater and greater power over individuals. Early generations of Americans pledged their lives to the cause of in­dividual freedom and limited government and warned, over and over again, that eternal vigilance would be required to preserve that freedom for posterity.

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Footnote: "Our Ageless Constitution," W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

[Lower55]

You’re exactly right. I won’t put my Trump stickers on my vehicles because I don’t want them damaged by democrats.

[DoodleDawg]

I will let Trump be the judge of that, he has internal polling we don’t have access to. If he did not think it was close he would not waste money.

Trump's path to the White House lies through Ohio, Florida, and North Carolina. Take those and he doesn't need Virginia. Take Virginia and lose any of the three then he doesn't win. Now where would you put your money?

[nvcdl]

Tom Davis turned the Fairfax Republican Party into a Dem-lite Clone.

[HerrBlucher]

I would put my money everywhere I could afford. Trump doesn’t want just win, he wants to win bigly, and if he has the dough I say go for it!

[HokieMom]

I had a tire slashed at Tysons Corner Mall when a GOP candidate sticker was on my car a few years ago.

[Ohioan]

Thank you for contributing to what we hope will be a constructive exchange.

How anyone can justify many of the things that Mrs. Clinton has advocated for decades, is an interesting subject. The founders would never have thought such a personality to be in any sense a legitimate candidate for the Presidency.

[Thickman]

Those states and VA. Republicans have recently over performed in statewide elections. With a little help, you might have Sen. Gillespie.

[magna carta]

[xzins]

It’s simply not how Trump rolls. He doesn’t give up.

[Joshua]

Trump needs to take advertising money and buy an hour of TV. He can then go down the list and make the case for her corruption without the media filter. This would be one of the biggest draws in recent TV history. We need a freeper to get this idea to his campaign

[HokieMom]

The Trump campaign plans to go on the air with television ads in Virginia starting Tuesday in what campaign officials say is a $2 million buy in “key markets” through election day. http://www.wmal.com/

And Trump’s Virginia Co-Chair just said that they expect to lose the DC suburbs but are expecting a large turn-out in the rest of the Commonwealth. Trump will be in Virginia three more times before Election Day!

[HokieMom]

Posted: Monday, October 17, 2016 2:15 pm

BY GRAHAM MOOMAW Richmond Times-Dispatch

Donald Trump’s campaign is launching a $2 million television ad buy in Virginia in the final weeks of the presidential contest, a sign Trump still hopes to compete in a former swing state that polls show leaning heavily toward Hillary Clinton.

John Fredericks, a conservative radio host and acting chairman of Trump’s Virginia campaign, said Monday that the ad buy was planned before last week’s media reports that suggested Trump was pulling out of Virginia.
Fredericks said the ads will begin to run “very soon” in “key targeted areas.”

The Trump campaign last week rebutted reports Trump was abandoning Virginia, saying in a statement that some resources were being temporarily relocated to North Carolina.

Fredericks said the advertising commitment, planned a month ago, refutes the “false narrative” that Republicans see certain defeat in Virginia.

Christopher Newport University’s poll results released over the weekend that showed Clinton leading Trump by 15 points in Virginia are “laughable,” Fredericks said.
He added that CNU polls in 2014 showed U.S. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., with a big lead over Republican challenger Ed Gillespie. That race finished much tighter than many expected.

gmoomaw@timesdispatch.com
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Twitter: @gmoomaw

http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_3621db92-87e3-5739-be96-be2eeee9c11a.html

[Carry me back]

Trump will win Virginia. It was all a lie. He ‘ll win it easily.

[Carry me back]

He ‘ll win Virginia. By 5% or more.

[Carry me back]

Ads continue to run for Trump here. 15 to 20% of the dems will vote Trump, at least. The last couple state wides have been pretty close here. She ‘ll lose and the know it. That’s why the extreme lies saying she is winning big. The only hope they have is that people get discouraged and not vote. Otherwise its over for her. If she loses Virginia she loses the election. It’s over for shillary.

[DoodleDawg]

He ‘ll win Virginia. By 5% or more.

Your state is blue now. I don't think it's even considered 'battleground' anymore.