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We now know exactly how Donald Trump is going to try to get reelected
CNN Politics ^ | October 31, 2019 | Chris Cillizza, Editor-at-large

Posted on 10/31/2019 6:49:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

During Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump's campaign launched a seven-figure national ad buy -- a 30-second commercial touting his first-term accomplishments on terrorism, the economy and immigration.

But the real key to the ad -- and the bit that you need to pay very close attention to -- comes in the final moments of the commercial, when the narrator says this:

"He's no Mr. Nice Guy. But sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to change Washington."

Those two sentences are hugely telling when it comes to understanding how Trump (and his campaign) are going to position him in the race for a second term next November.

What's clear from that tag line -- "no Mr. Nice Guy ... sometimes you need a Donald Trump" -- is that the campaign understands how poorly the President is perceived on a bevy of personality traits. He's not seen as friendly. Or kind. Or empathetic. Or even really, someone you'd want to spend a bunch of time around.

This ad tries to turn those traits on their head. Rather than being regarded as a negative for Trump, his campaign is trying to argue that in order to fix a place as broken as Washington, you need someone who doesn't care about whether you like him. Or whether anyone likes him. Who only cares about results.

In a bumper sticker, the campaign messaging that this ad appears to preview goes like this: Yes, he's a jerk. But he's a jerk who gets results!

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


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; State and Local
KEYWORDS: 2020; maga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The leftstream media is waking up to the fact that Trump has lit them up along with the rats as the target.


41 posted on 10/31/2019 7:29:01 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Salamander

I don’t know that song, but I’ll give a listen.

I expect we could come up with a long list of wonderful songs he could play. It would be a riot.


42 posted on 10/31/2019 7:29:13 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I've read the back of The Book, and we win.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don't they mean No More Mr. Nice Guy? 8>)
43 posted on 10/31/2019 7:31:01 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He left out the part where pictures of Nan and Chuckie are shown with their impeachment faces on, doing nothing for the American people. I thought it was darn near a perfect commercial.


44 posted on 10/31/2019 7:32:22 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If you know independent executives, you know it comes with the territory.

They’ve never had to answer to anyone but everyone answers to them. They’re demanding and quirky.

Yet they are smart enough to see and reward those who deliver results.

This is who President Trump is and that has probably not changed over decades. But he enjoys sparring with peers and hearing different ideas. He’s a fast study, sometimes too fast. But often, he will catch others off guard.

This is how it goes.

Trump 2020!


45 posted on 10/31/2019 7:32:32 PM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I have the song linked in post 43 for you. 8>)


46 posted on 10/31/2019 7:32:47 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
BRAINDEAD CILLIZZA: "Trump's campaign is trying to argue that Washington
needs someone who doesn't care about whether you like him. Or whether anyone likes him. "

Cillizza needs a wake-up call.

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Donald Trump competed and succeeded in some of the nation's most predatory businesses:

<><> 14 years at the top of the ratings in his reality TV show. Not an easy feat if you know anything about the cut-throat business of TV.

<><> building and financing billion dollar realty projects in the dog-eat-dog world of real estate development.

<><> Hugh Hefner of Playboy fame, Barron Hilton of hotel fame and Bob Guccione of Penthouse COULD NOT
GET A/C casino licenses, b/c the vetting is so brutal. Trump owned four A/C casinos and other casinos elsewhere.
Mueller was looking in the same places the super-smart casino licensers were looking---that's why he found nothing.

The people Donald has had to deal with and outwit to succeed in these disparate venues make these politicians look like mental midgets.

I count Cillizza and the MSM among these mental midgets.

47 posted on 10/31/2019 7:33:35 PM PDT by Liz ( Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Cillizza, you dirtbag media idiots don’t care one whit that Hillary or Obama are both nasty jerks, especially Hillary, but you voted for her and want her in because you think she’s the better person for the job. Well, I’ll take Trump over Hillary any day of the week! Get over it, man! Hillary is a loser and a witch!!


48 posted on 10/31/2019 7:34:45 PM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: TigerClaws
But sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to change Washington.

wasn't that a line from Batman???


I AM Batman!

49 posted on 10/31/2019 7:36:53 PM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G.


50 posted on 10/31/2019 7:43:59 PM PDT by Eddie01 (My very first mistake in life was believing that life was fair.)
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To: Salamander
Since Pres. Trump is a suit and tie kind of guy he should use Pat Boone's version.

Pat Boone performing "No More Mr. Nice Guy" on the Easter Seal Celebration 1997

OK, that was pretty bad so here is some ear wash in case you listened to any of that.

Alice Cooper - No More Mr. Nice Guy (from Alice Cooper: Trashes The World) [Official Video]

51 posted on 10/31/2019 7:45:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Speaking of jerks, here’s Chris Cillizza’s latest spew.

The ad is correct, but not quite the way Fake News CNN portrays it.

Trump is the outsider, the non-politician whose entire career has revolved around seeking positive outcomes in the real world. Now, he’s doing that for the country instead of his own company.

Yes, the country needs a Trump. It has for a long, long time. What we don’t need is another DC insider like Obama who promises great things and delivers a sack of ****.


52 posted on 10/31/2019 7:45:34 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: Dawgreg

Cillizza writes what he is told to write.

The fiction he writes comes from the deep state to the media bosses to the editors to the writers.

Cillizza doesn’t think.

He gets a handsome paycheck for cranking out deep state narratives in a timely fashion that appear to be his opinion.


53 posted on 10/31/2019 7:47:58 PM PDT by Eddie01 (My very first mistake in life was believing that life was fair.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump is going to position himself for re-election by doing something that would be considered impossible in any other era and with any other sitting President:

He's going to run as an outsider to fix a broken and dysfunctional Washington D.C. even though he's the incumbent.

54 posted on 10/31/2019 7:49:18 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: TigerClaws

“Donald Trump is Batman.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQsjBLPBB8M


55 posted on 10/31/2019 7:49:37 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (The Electoral College is the firewall protecting us from massive blue state vote fraud.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

His bumper sticker should be: Not Mr. Nice Guy, but the Right Guy.


56 posted on 10/31/2019 7:53:09 PM PDT by EnquiringMind
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Just wait until Trump RELEASES his BANKAI!!!*** (They ain't seen nothing yet!)

*** "(BAHN-KAI) Translated to "full release" from Japanese. It is the highest form of power that can be reached within a God of Death, granting them an extreme but limited power. Before the Release of a Bankai it is normal for the Shinigami (God of Death) to shout "BANKAI" at the top of their lungs."


57 posted on 10/31/2019 8:04:32 PM PDT by Simon Foxx
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To: tinyowl; UnwashedPeasant
Chris, you ignorant slut....

You don't even realize that what Trump's commercial intended to do, was to trigger the opposition and get MSM intelligentsia like you to TALK about the commercial. He knew your story would be full of nonsense that paints Normal Americans as idiots. Those Normals, in turn, reading your spin, will respond "yep..Trump IS right about the media."

In essence, you just gave Trump more of a lift than would have happened had you just shut yer big fat yapper. Thank you.

58 posted on 10/31/2019 8:07:14 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^s)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chris, based upon your track record, you know approximately nothing. You know only the inside of your rancid little brain cavity, a dismal place where low-level thoughts based on envy and resentment breed and multiply. And once they leave their larval state, ooze forth from your mouth like the contents of an irritating chancre sore, leaving behind whatever shell or cocoon or other discarded body detritus, so that the next iteration of what you imagine to be deep thought will be properly seeded.


59 posted on 10/31/2019 8:11:42 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Chris, buddy, you know who’s going to re-elect Trump? You are.


60 posted on 10/31/2019 8:16:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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