Posted on 10/20/2016 7:49:06 AM PDT by TheRef
Donald Trump was asked to accept the election results no matter what happens in the media or at the ballot boxes around the country. Trump refused, saying that he would wait to see what happens before he accepts the election results.
The liberal media has reacted with outrage, making this answer the primary story coming out of the debate. While one might assume this is a bad thing for Trump, that person would be wrong.
The unfounded allegations of women claiming Trump sexually mistreated them have consumed the liberal media discussion for more than a week. Trump needs a new discussion in the liberal media. By making this statement on election acceptance, Trump not only changed the subject, but shaped their discussion in such a way that corruption ends up as the primary focus. Genius?
When someone considers whether Trump should accept the election results, he or she will automatically ask why he might refuse. One can't think about this and not ask that question; it just jumps out. The answer? Corruption. Issue selection represents the most important objective for any politician, and Trump made corruption the main focus through this answer.
If you doubt this, just watch the media drop the discussion of election acceptance after a day of receiving emails from their viewers. They won't like the questions the subject raises.
Consider for a moment what the media would have done if Trump gave the opposite answer, that he would accept the results no matter what. They would have praised Trump for that answer, stating that while the battle has been bruising, everything will be okay in the end. Translation: we can do whatever we want, lie, distort, ignore the festering corruption of Hillary Clinton, and Trump won't do anything about it.
While the weak establishment Republicans would have praised Trump for this answer because it gives them what they most crave, love from the liberal media, it would have been a strategic disaster for Trump's campaign. It would have given the media license to ignore Wikileaks and Project Veritas more than they already have.
This answer would have been an abandonment of his base and Trump needs his base to be passionate and motivated. By giving the answer Trump gave, he is in harmony with his vocal base and he keeps the pressure on the media to talk about their own corruption.
In fact, Trump not only turned a spotlight on those daily developing stories, but he riveted that spotlight in place. The statement that Trump made is so unique and provocative, that to ignore the corruption causes a little anxiety to develop out of frustration that we are not dealing with what really matters. The media just doesn't get it. They got Trumped.
Remember also, the liberal media will never discuss Donald Trump in a favorable light. The best he can hope for is to force them to talk about a subject that leads viewers to ask questions that potentially help him. He achieves this objective by withholding acceptance of an election that hasn't happened yet.
What questions might viewers of CNN ask when hearing this discussion?
Why might Trump reject that election results?
Would he have any good reason to reject the election results?
Okay, so the only reason to reject election results would be if someone cheated. Did someone cheat in this election?
There you have it, a viewer of liberal media news asking the very questions that will make them open to considering the corruption question. When they become open to the subject, they will Google it. When they Google it, they begin to see information Clinton and the liberal media are trying to cover up. Just watch Google Trends over the coming days. That's a Trump score.
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Same line of BS they forced on him to pledge not to run as an independent. When they’d use it as nothing but a means to crawl fish him.
Given Clinton’s history of courting the media, it appears that she sends out blast emails to her media minions with her talking points and script. How, otherwise, to they continue to say the same thing(s)?
It won’t hurt him with the people who are going to vote for him anyway. It *might* be of use to the Democrats to fire up their base for the House and Senate races, but probably not.
"No matter what happens, will you act a certain way three weeks from now?"
Of course I wouldn't answer the question. Especially if I knew that it would get thrown back in my face.
Trump put them on notice that he will be on the alert for vote fraud and ballot box chicanery.
Hillary Clinton may have ALREADY done something so egregious that he should not accept the results because the result would be fraudulent.
If the Democratic Party has so badly compromised the election process that the results are fraudulent, then a patriot would NOT accept the results and would engage the people in a process that corrects the problem, which would not involve court cases and rulings by corrupt judges in on the game. We have no republic if the election system is compromised as much as I think it is.
It will help Trump with the large number of traditional non voters who are so turned off to the corruption.
See the BREXIT election results.
Remember, in most of the world there are relatively few usage for early voting and there are tough proof of identification requirements just to vote (India is a good example of this). The USA should have the same diligence.
As an experienced negotiator trump gave the correct answer. Never volunteer for any blanket commitment.
BINGO
Exactly. Media is so obsessed with preserving this republic, but if we don’t have free elections, our republic is corrupt and needs reformed. Our founders or any lover of liberty would not accept this corruption!
I remember the media’s hair was on fire about that one too. They are so conventional in their thinking. They are a pretty dim bunch.
So Trump’s response means the media cannot help but cover the real and credible indications of potential for voter fraud being carried out by Democrats across this country - from now to the election...while Trump’s campaign hopefully stays focused on the big issues. Now, tell me how that is bad for Trump. Seems to me like he suckered them once again.
Precisely. It’s kind of funny how the media is so easily inflamed. So predictable.
I believe you folks are right. He has now focused attention on voter fraud as an issue. The media stepped in it big time. EITHER cover and see what is going on, or implicitly support the Democrats in stealing the election. ROFL.
I never saw you before, Ref, but I surely do appreciate your thinking ....
THIS is why I come to FR
Where else can you get reasoned opinions ... and some pretty good arguments, too ?
I JUST started doing that to my doctors ... I don’t know ... what are YOU doing April 4th .... is it a good day for YOU ?
“Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they are still writing articles about how Bush stole the elections in 2000 and 2004. So this holier than though attitude about, “this is the first time anyone has suggested that the election is not a sacrosanct process,” it’s a joke. So you guys bathe in that hypocrisy if you want to, I’d just like to hear how the debate went. Go ahead, bathe.” -Joe Scarborough
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