"[On the Donald]: I wasn't particularly impressed." "I wasnt particularly impressed. It was the normal stream of consciousness, long on hyperbole." - Republican Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) Donald Trump met with GOP Congressmen and Senators on Thursday, and the reaction: "Meh."
The Washington Post sums it up in their headline: "Its very, very hard to understand what Donald Trump is doing right now."
To recap Donald Trump's week:
New California poll has Donald Trump reaching 'historic lows' in presidential race.
He's allying with the Virginia Democratic Attorney General to try and stop delegates from voting their conscience.
A new Reuters poll has him losing to Hillary Clinton by 13.
He fell short of matching Hillary Clinton's fundraising in June.
He doubled down on his anti-Semitic sharegraphic by comparing it to Disney's Frozen.
And now the people that are supposed to be campaigning hard for him - Republican elected officials - are sitting on their hands.
The Washington Post is right. His campaign doesn't have any real plan or strategy. But it's easy to understand what they aren't doing: winning.
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But of course, if they destroy the Party, they lose their power. This is the absurdity at the root of the #NeverTrump fanatic's thinking.
The Rules Committee meets tomorrow. Heaven only knows how many Committee delegates have fallen under the sway of DELEGATES UNBOUND's "vote your conscience" siren song.
But what DU is proposing would be suicidal for the Party.
There's not a dime's worth of difference between a delegate who, instead of voting the candidate preference determined by the various States' primary elections or caucuses, substitutes his own judgment for that of voters in his home State -- and a "Superdelegate," which we deplore when we see them in the Democrat party.
For "Superdelegate," read: Influential Party Insider. If the Rules Committee ratifies the "vote your conscience" rule, this is tantamount to turning all Convention delegates into Superdelegates -- which means rule by elites, not rule by the vox populi, or by consent of the governed.
The GOP would be DEAD if the RNC lets this go forward.
Of the DELEGATES UNBOUND promoters, all I can say is, these guys insist on getting the WHOLE loaf of bread; they'd rather starve to death than settle for HALF a loaf (which would allow them to keep their power and their base and live to fight another day). They are idiotes. And Jim Sasse is an Asse.
JMHO FWIW
Thanks, Hildy, for keeping us up-to-date!
Thanks Hildy for keeping us posted.
Is anyone surprised that they are working from K street.