Posted on 03/08/2016 12:37:17 PM PST by Kaslin
A fierce debate has broken out among Donald Trump’s family, friends and campaign advisers over how to respond to the Republican establishment’s last-ditch effort to deny him the presidential nomination.
Trump’s confidants are split over how to handle the sudden onslaught, with some saying he should become more presidential.
But according to a high-ranking member of Trump’s inner circle, Trump is ignoring this advice and listening to his own inner Donald.
The debate broke out after Mitt Romney viciously attacked Trump as a “phony” and “fraud” during a speech Romney delivered at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City earlier this month.
Heated disagreement inside the campaign intensified when the race began to tighten and a group of mega-rich donors started pouring millions of dollars into anti-Trump TV commercials in Florida, which holds a do-or-die primary on March 15.
Members of this establishment—a good old boy network of donors, elected officials, local and state party officials, pollsters, advisers, and conservative pooh-bahs—are desperate to prevent Trump from winning the 1,237 delegates needed to claim the GOP nomination.
They want to throw the nomination onto the floor of a contested convention in July, where they can pick a candidate more acceptable to them.
Some of Trump’s advisers have urged him to stop acting like an Alpha dog, drop the narcissistic me-me-me, and start talking about substance and policy.
Others are urging him to reach into his pockets and invest millions of his own money in TV commercials to answer the establishment’s negative ads.
Donald Trump makes a point.
But according to the source, Trump thinks he knows better.
“He intends to continue with the strategy that has worked for him up to now,” says the source. “He’s going to rely on Twitter, Facebook and large campaign rallies, and he has no intention of pouring many millions into TV commercials.
“As for becoming more presidential,” this source continued, “let me quote Donald and you’ll get the gist. He says, and I quote, ‘I don’t want to be a jerk. I have to do what I have to do. If people attack me, I’m going to attack them even harder and they’ll live to regret it.’ “
The only person who can beat Donald is Donald.
Watch what he says to the reporter that brought up the hands question;
Donald Trump Full Press Conference After Winning LA and KY (3-5-16) (20:57 in the video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mShTUVnftS4&feature=player_detailpage#t=1315
Anyone watching his rallies can see he’s really cleaned that up. Melania told Greta that she told Donald to stop using those kinds of words;
Melania Trump: I’m not a ‘yes’ person ... I have thick skin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rO_dSIAXhkY#t=370
The whole video is worth watching!
“IF it isn’t broken, why fix it?” Seems he’s gotten this far, he knows what he is doing, so let him do it....
“Trump made Trump, only Trump will take Trump out” Rush Limbaugh...
1. North Korea, just yesterday. threating to attack us with nukes
2.The Iranian's with their newly acquired 150 billion dollars -can simply buy nukes now!
3. Mullah Obama has already begun flying in his preset goal of 170,000 Islamic Muslim rapefugees! How many of these 170,000 will eventually beat, rape and murder our fellow Americans. How many of these 170,000 will arrive here - and eventually pull out machine guns on us.
4. The illegal mexican horde currently here and the illegal mexican hordes always enroute here -taking millions upon millions of jobs from Americans (white, black and hispanic Americans), swarming our schools, bankrupting our hospitals, raping and murdering fellow Americans. [and all the very slimy democrat politicians welcoming them -as potential democrat voters]
I'm voting for Trump!
There’s that other hand sign.
Just talk.
So far this campaign season, Trump has shown he is 2 steps ahead of everybody. Not sure what to make of this piece. Will disregard it.
I want the real Donald Trump. Just be yourself.
From the same people that told Rubio it was a great idea to attack Trump
twenty stories on FR page...Nine of them anti-Trump....
Trump just needs to continue to be himself — that is what got him and is keeping him his following, despite the disgusting and vicious attacks by some.
Presidential just means looking down at people and treating people as beneath you to respond to
I would be okay with this :) I do support the man but sometimes I wish he would tone it down a bit. I suppose it's worked for him so far. He might crash if he changed his strategy.
Trouble is, voters expect their presidents to act presidential.
Catch 22. Was bound to happen.
He is who he is. Shouldn’t be a phony just to please others.
Everyone is so eager to have another patrician Bush, ever so genteel and elegant as they sell out the nation and stab America in the back.
“twenty stories on FR page...Nine of them anti-Trump....”
Im noticing that too.
Maybe it does to you.
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