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Trump confounds many Republicans with last-minute push in Virginia
The Washington Post's Virginia Politics ^ | October 24, 2016 | Laura Vozzella

Posted on 10/24/2016 11:28:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

RICHMOND — Republican Donald Trump, never short on campaign shockers, pulled one off Saturday simply by setting foot in Virginia.

Trump’s rally in Virginia Beach, part of a renewed push here that included a $2 million television ad buy, flabbergasted political analysts and GOP strategists who’ve considered the swing state off the table for months.

Trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by double digits in the latest Virginia polls, Trump will dispatch key surrogates — his children — for series of visits to Northern Virginia this week. His campaign said Trump and runningmate Mike Pence will return to the state “a lot” before Election Day....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Virginia; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: clinton; donaldtrump; hillary; hillaryclinton; republican; republicans; trump; virginia
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Crazy like a fox.
1 posted on 10/24/2016 11:28:04 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s called internal polling.


2 posted on 10/24/2016 11:29:42 AM PDT by petercooper (Is there anything Hillary Clinton is involved with which isn't illegal?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it would be a great omen to win in Tim Kaine country. POWER ON and lets see the odds in Las Vegas where people gamble on these things. I think Trump will take Virginia......


3 posted on 10/24/2016 11:29:59 AM PDT by rovenstinez (so)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think they do know something.


4 posted on 10/24/2016 11:32:30 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump flabbergasting the GOPe works for me.


5 posted on 10/24/2016 11:34:46 AM PDT by AU72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

GO TRUMP GO~!
buy a ton of ads now, too!!!! pleez?


6 posted on 10/24/2016 11:35:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: petercooper
It’s called internal polling.

Trump should trust his own polling only a little, and he should not trust anyone else's polling at all. This election is uncharted territory, and no one knows what is really going to happen in 15 days.

7 posted on 10/24/2016 11:35:57 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
flabbergasted political analysts and GOP strategists ...

What? Like the Mike Murphy types who ran the Jeb! campaign into the ground? Those experts!

8 posted on 10/24/2016 11:36:27 AM PDT by Flick Lives (Voting Trump. It is not just a vote, it is a chance to burn down the rotten Uniparty.)
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To: conservativepoet
I think they do know something.

Either that or they're idiots. Given their primary record, it ain't the latter.


9 posted on 10/24/2016 11:36:34 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump’s going for a blowout, not for a contestable edge of your seat win.


10 posted on 10/24/2016 11:37:39 AM PDT by struggle (The)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Translation...the Compost,always concerned about Trump’s success,wants him to go elsewhere.Perhaps to Texas where,they report,Hillary has tied it up.Perhaps to Alabama where,they report,Hillary’s up by 1....or perhaps to Massachusetts where,the Compost reports,Trump is surprising everyone by being within a point.


11 posted on 10/24/2016 11:39:02 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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Yep - it must be because Trump is “dupid”. /s

So - all you so-call “GOP strategists” why didn’t your strategy for beating Trump in the primaries, and why didn’t all your strategies for easily beating BO in 2012 come to fruition?

And most curious of all, how do you “GOP strategists” still earn a paycheck - when most everything you do seems to favor Democrats - hmmm?


12 posted on 10/24/2016 11:39:14 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The GOPe's top strategist said it best


13 posted on 10/24/2016 11:40:01 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. - Mark Twain)
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To: jonno

“so-called”


14 posted on 10/24/2016 11:40:06 AM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

All of the FBI agents are going to vote for him.


15 posted on 10/24/2016 11:40:31 AM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: faithhopecharity

I hope he has enough money for everything he needs to do.

His manager sent emails this morning saying they need about 300m to do what the need to do. So I donated again. But some of us are tapped out now.

I dont know how much of that they already have.

These commercials cost a fortune!!! geez.


16 posted on 10/24/2016 11:40:37 AM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember these same people were shocked that the GOP almost won the Senate seat there in 2014 and had they put money into the campaign would have won it.


17 posted on 10/24/2016 11:42:17 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: petercooper
They don't do much internal polling.

However, the crap polls in the state may be even worse than the slanted ones elsewhere. They keep citing this CN Univ. poll that was 7 points off in favor of the democrats in 2014. 7 points. And that was right before election day, its was even worse in the months beforehand.

18 posted on 10/24/2016 11:43:30 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: alternatives?

Ha...I was thinking that the other day. A lot of people in FBI have to be very angry


19 posted on 10/24/2016 11:44:12 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Hillary & Huma SUPPORT those who support CLITORECTOMIES for little girls...SICKOS)
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To: dp0622

understood.
do NOT hurt yourself financially.
(altho certainly the economy will continue to slide down down DOWN if HilLIARy gets in, so most all of us will suffer financially then)

you can only do so much. do it, with thanks we have this opportunity. and then let whatever happens, occur. you can help further by asking all your friends to vote for Mr Trump...we are not helpless even at this late hour....

best, and thanks for helping DT. I figure this is the last election I will live to see, that will matter. If DT wins, he can get USA back at least pointed in a good direction again. If HilLIARy wins, it is all over for America anyway


20 posted on 10/24/2016 11:44:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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