Posted on 04/05/2016 8:55:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
We were destined to see a major “Trump in disarray!” piece from political media on a day when he’s looking at a loss in Wisconsin, just like we’re destined to see “Trump comeback!” pieces two weeks from now when he wipes the floor with Cruz in New York. Even so, the layoffs reported here are odd. What possible reason could a billionaire candidate have to slash staff at a moment when he’s desperate for people to help him organize his battle for delegates with Cruz? Even if he had the nomination locked up, why would he want to shed staffers in states like Ohio and Florida for which he’ll have to fight tooth and nail in November? One of the biggest worries among political pros in having Trump as nominee is that Democrats will run rings around him organizationally, given his strategy of trying to beat Cruz’s superior GOTV operations through sheer media muscle. Now here he is stripping his already mediocre organization down further. Why the hell would he do that?
I’ve said this before but it can’t be said enough: As well as he’s done in the primaries thus far, imagine how well Trump could be doing if he’d spent big money on organization and ads. It’s not overstating it to say that Ted Cruz still has a chance at the nomination only because Trump’s inattentiveness to campaign fundamentals (and frugality?) has permitted it.
At the moment, though, Trump’s team appears to be something of a patchwork group without much experience—partly because so many staffers are being fired.
Only four of 11 Iowa staffers continued on after Trump lost that state’s caucuses in February. More recently, most of Trump’s South Carolina, Florida and Ohio teams have not had their contracts renewed, according to a person familiar with the campaign, who said the lack of organization in Florida was putting Trump at a disadvantage in the delegate selection process…
Multiple staffers and advisors left the campaign last month in protest of the way its management was treating its staff, a source familiar with the departures told POLITICO.
“I believe that Donald Trump has the backbone to fix this country, but if changes are not made soon at the top I am fairly convinced that he will lose,” said one of the people who left the campaign. The person said morale among the campaign staff is sinking, attributing that to the layoffs, as well as Lewandowski’s profanity-laced outburst on campaign calls.
“I don’t think Mr. Trump knows what’s happening on his campaign,” the person said, adding “everyone is in astonishment of what’s going on. It’s almost like they’re sabotaging themselves.”
The head of the data team was reportedly laid off a month ago and was replaced by his deputy, who hadn’t spent much time on political strategy before joining Team Trump. If you believe Politico, some of the campaign’s files are now inaccessible since the lead data guy left. Corey Lewandowski naturally denies that there’s any disarray and that anyone’s ever objected to him cursing, although the fact that his role in the campaign is reportedly shrinking is further circumstantial evidence that strange things are afoot. Ah well. At least Trump’s “private mercenary force” of security people is still on its game.
Question for campaign pros: Assuming that Politico’s theory of “disarray” is hyperbole, what’s the logical explanation for laying off staffers during crunch time of a long primary with a general election on the horizon? Is the campaign running low on cash with Trump unwilling to pony up what he needs to make the delegate fight with Cruz more competitive? If so, isn’t that another way of saying that he doesn’t want to be president that badly? I’m skeptical of that theory, but more people seem to be coming around to it every week: “There is a lifelessness to the Trump campaign lately, a kind of refusal to stand up and do the hard work of reuniting a party that he has shattered or building an organization that can mount an effective national campaign.” He’s barely begun building a fundraising network, per New York magazine, which he’ll surely need to keep pace with Democrats, even though he’s been the national frontrunner for nearly a year and could find himself at the start of the general election campaign as soon as … tomorrow, really, if Wisconsin goes his way tonight. Is the explanation just that Trump’s been winging it since the beginning and intends to keep doing so for the duration of the campaign? That’s a fine argument for delegate to choose him over Cruz on the floor in Cleveland.
Semi-relatedly, here’s a snapshot of Reuters’s national tracking poll among likely Republican voters since January 1st. The orange line is Trump, the red line is Cruz. What’s different lately?
I doubt you’ll see any of that Cruzmentum show up in New York two weeks from now, but if you’re searching for evidence that his (likely) win in Wisconsin tonight is a sign of a broader national shift, there you have it.
Truth be told if Trump gets 38 to 40 percent in a cuck state where 60 percent want amnesty, that is a very good result.
He needs to go back to NY and get his $hit together, Maybe hire Yoko to sing at his rally’s.
.@MollyLineFNC: @realDonaldTrump slated to hold a rally in Long Island tomorrow night -OTR #greta @FoxNews
It will be heart wrenching for all of the Cruz supporters who believed that Ted was the anointed one. I willna vote for the Democrat or GOPe globalist!
There is a profound reason why Phyllis, Sarah, Sheriff Joe, Franklin and Jeff endorsed Trump.
This election is about allegiance to the United States. Make no mistake.
Do you folks think for one hot minute that if it were Jeb in Trumps position that the GOPe would allow Kasich to stay in? That they would have allowed Cruz to stay in? Fools!
Here is me with a foreshadowing when your delusions about Cruz crash & burn: I told you so.
Throw lipstick on that pig.
http://lamecherry.blogspot.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-exposed-with-pants-down.html
Over and over and over. I cannot emphasize strongly enough that although Donald acts like a street way too much and needs to change his ways radically and quickly, he is the country’s only hope.
Ted Cruz is a corporatist and a globalist. He evidently sees nothing wrong with diluting the Constitution he knows by heart and which has helped make America great with huge increases in immigrants to dilute the labor force, with terrible trade deals which give away our sovereignty and does so with a most sly and lawyerly cunning.
Policy, policy policy Donald. Explain Cruz’s past history of promoting more of the very policies that have almost destroyed us.
Please Donald. Get up to speed on the Life Issues. Talk about how you protect religious freedom. Go around the abortion junk and articulate a program which will really help women, especially single mothers.
Almost everyone I know likes your policies, but hate your style. Show your substance. Change your style. It is not too late.
Do Not Give Up.
Lame Cherry makes Alex Jones look like the Library of Congress. He makes David Icke look like the Weekly Standard.
LOL! It begins.
Wisconsin gave lift to Cruz’ Last Stand, from which the presses have started with the Cruz/Establishment air campaign against TRUMP.
They can not win on the ground with the people against the frontrunner, can’t catch up in the popular vote and all of state earned delegates, so what to do but hand wring and run the SPIN campaign in the Establishment media.
TRUMP supporters have a thick skin. Bring it, media tools, before we soon get into TRUMP country, and change your ink into rock songs.
63# Wisconsin rules!
Cruz brought the cheese, Drumpf brought the whine. ;)
Bottom line that every pro-American patriot needs to wake up to is that another Dem president this year will be the end of the Republic. Maybe some are okay with that and ready to go to war. Maybe that is the only thing that will restore true liberty and representative government of free people.
However, to beat the Dem candidate, if that is the goal (and it is mine), will require Trump and Cruz supporters to join forces. If most of us cannot bury the hatchet, we will be faced with Madame President Clinton and a liberal jurist on the Supreme Court permanently tilting the balance of power to the left as long as this nation exists.
Choose wisely.
"These escorts were running several hundred dollars, so this was not cheap, nor was air travel.......and lest we forget, Amanda Carpenter was an employee of Ted Cruz, which meant this was criminal sexual harrassment, even if her ass was propped up saying yes. That is illegal."
Comments?
Yeah, you’re a tool and a terd.
Go away.
That’s that civility we’re looking for.
No one can make a candidate run or not run. A candidate does not need a party’s permission to run in a primary. As long as a candidate gets the required signatures for the state and pays the filing fee, they are on the ballot. The party has no say in it.
The author of this article should run for big government. He sure complains about conserving money and his only solution is to waste it.
If your conduct and commentary is the proof and merit of civility and decency, you can keep it and shove it where the sun don’t shine. How dare you claim umbrage and feign insult after all the rude and inappropriate insults you have levied against fellow FReepers over the many years you have been here.
Yeah, that’s right, Buckwheat. My membership is relatively new, but I have been lurking FR for over 10 years and I’ve been paying attention. Now go away, you arrogant GOPe tool.
Good luck with that. Sorry, but Donnie's not what you wish he was. 'Right now, he's catering to Republicans.'
I want the teddy cruzniparty establishment cucks to underestimate Trump and have overconfidence in themselves. :)
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