Posted on 08/23/2017 3:44:50 PM PDT by Rockitz
Steve Bannon, the figure most frequently touted as the Machiavellian mastermind behind President Donald Trump’s connection with his populist base, left the White House late last week.
But his absence has shown no signs of hampering the support Trump enjoys among those core supporters. All indication in the past five days has been that those voters like Trump for Trump and it makes little to no difference who stands beside him inside the White House.
Rhetorically speaking, the president’s marathon address in Phoenix yesterday—in which he bashed the media, coyly suggested he’d pardon Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and threatened to shut down the government over long-promised border wall funding—was peak form. It reminded Trump supporters, after a disappointing Monday night in which the president promised to put more troops on the ground in Afghanistan, about the person they voted for.
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Beyond the anecdotal evidence, some early polling from the Trump campaign’s top pollster, Tony Fabrizio, also underscores that Trump voters seem not to care that Bannon is out of the White House.
According to polling conducted by his firm, some 29 percent of people in an August survey of 1,500 self-described GOP or GOP leaning voters nationally, viewed Trump more favorably after Bannon was axed and only 6 percent viewed him less favorably. Some 48 percent indicated that it didn’t change their opinion at all.
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Thanks, LS
I have appreciated your insight and input to help keep me grounded.
Bannon appears to be a strategist. Once the strategy is set, you need a tactician to execute it.
And just because Bannon no longer works at the WH doesn’t mean he’s gone.
I care more about Jared and Ivanka still being in the WH.
Bannon was very late to the party for your description to be true. Trump's conversions came well before he came on board - and Trump made a lot of very hasty conversions (especially on immigration - continuing to call for amnesty literally a few weeks before he made his run official) to the point many of us simply did not believe a word he was saying...but so far, he's kept many of his promises...he made a deal for votes and he has kept his side of the deal. The biggest deal was his commitment to appointing good constitutional judges - and he has done so...the only thing is that he needs to move more quickly but other than that, he has appointed some of the finest jurists to the bench of any President in history...and that is no exaggeration.
They are still trying to figure out how/why Trump won the election. I guess some were convinced it was because of Bannon. I admit a lot of people including Bannon helped get Trump elected; as is always the case with a winning campaign. At the end of the day though, I voted for Trump. Period.
I agree with that
I thought you would. ;-)
I expect that Bannon retains access to the President.
See post 20.
It’s just that this is the first time I’ve heard a proponent of the gay agenda described as a stalwart conservative.
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