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Donald Trump’s Top Adviser: ‘This Is Not A Hard Race’
Huffington Post ^ | 05/26/2016 | Howard Fineman

Posted on 05/26/2016 6:36:19 AM PDT by MaxistheBest

Paul Manafort explains why his boss is “gonna win,” no prob.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Paul Manafort looks the part of a chairman: 67, well-coiffed, bespoke-suited and appropriately Rolexed. In the world of Donald Trump, that’s his title: campaign chairman and chief strategist.

And as chairmen do, Manafort assured us that his enterprise will be crowned with success: Trump will beat Hillary Clinton soundly in November.

“He’s gonna win,” Manafort said over breakfast at a local diner called The Royal in Old Town Alexandria. “He gonna win unless we — meaning people like me — screw it up. This is not a hard race.”

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; trump

1 posted on 05/26/2016 6:36:19 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: MaxistheBest

Hope he’s right.

Sure must piss Hillary off to hear this stuff everyday from Trump people.


2 posted on 05/26/2016 6:41:01 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: MaxistheBest

“Why? In Manafort’s summary: Trump will remain Trump.

He may moderate a few views — think Muslims — but he won’t and doesn’t need to back down on anything. He probably won’t pick a woman or a member of a minority group as a running mate because that would be “pandering.” He won’t win George W. Bush’s levels of Latino support, but he will pick up enough Hispanic votes in key swing states. He won’t get the Bush family’s support and doesn’t want it. Trump just has to be presidential enough in the first debate (no body parts mentioned), pick an experienced running mate, and run Clinton into the ground as a corrupt version of Barack Obama.

He’ll win with white men and women, plus just enough of everyone else. Simple.”


3 posted on 05/26/2016 6:43:30 AM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: MaxistheBest

This is a professional look at the race by a professional. Paul Manafort spells out how and why Trump will win. It’s worth reading the whole thing.

The ban on Muslims
The Wall
Tax Returns
VP pick
The GOP
Filling the chair
Attacking Hillary

Latino voters...

this really is an eye opener...“The national polls are distorted,” Manafort said. “To get a national sample they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are, but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.”

“But if you look at Hispanics in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and even Florida, you see a different picture. We’re going to target Hispanic voters in those and other swing states.”

“The message is going to be jobs, national security, terrorism, family values and education,” he said. “In that order.” “Their concerns are the same as the white working families.”

So his candidate doesn’t need 40 percent of Latino voters nationwide. “If we get into the high 20s in those states with Hispanics, we will win them, and in Florida we can do even better if we do what we need to do in the Cuban community.”

The Women: “Our numbers even now are not that far out of whack,” Manafort said. “We’re down 12 among women, but up 20 among men.”

“Hillary is the one who’s got a gender gap. And while we are behind among women over all, we’re ahead among white women even now. We’ll get some black and Hispanic women as we go along.”

How He’ll Campaign: “We’ll continue the rallies. That is Trump’s brand. We’ll do the broad themes at the big rallies. No one wants to change that.”

But, Manafort added, the campaign will assemble a state-of-the-art social media and on-the-ground operation.

“He doesn’t want to spend the money on a big national campaign structure. He hears a figure like $500 million and says, ‘These are all people who are going to get rich.’ But I have reassured him that it will be a very lean operation.”

‘Filling The Chair’: “There are two main challenges. One is to make the American people look at him and say, ‘He can fill the chair.’”

“Does he know enough? Yes, because he knows he has more to learn. And he is constantly doing that.” Trump doesn’t read briefing papers, but he is a magnet for information, Manafort said. “He reads the newspapers, and he talks on the phone and to office visitors in a never-ending stream. You’re sitting there in his office and you realize that he is constantly picking up stuff as he goes.” “We have all this survey research, but he does his own soundings all the time, all day every day. And he’s more accurate,” Manafort said.

The first presidential debate will be key. Needless to say, Trump won’t hesitate to attack Clinton in that and other debates. Attack is and has always been his only mode.

“The idea of going at her doesn’t have to change,” said Manafort. “But it will matter how he says it.”

No Bushes: “I think we’ll get other people coming aboard eventually, but probably not the Bushes — and Trump can leave them alone,” said Manafort. “And we’re going to be above 90 percent Republican support without them.”

“People don’t want dynasties. They want change.”


4 posted on 05/26/2016 6:43:49 AM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: Pelham

I don’t want Muslims or illegals to be part of our national discouse. Muslims because they don’t assimilate and always overstep their bounds as soon as there are enough of them, and illegals because they’re illegal.

Why are we supposed to pander to them? I truly feel that Tump is the only one in decades who can make a difference and return the US to Americans.


5 posted on 05/26/2016 6:59:02 AM PDT by Aria (2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
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To: Pelham
Trump likely has a HUGE dossier on the Clintons. How? He knows many of the same people that worked with the Clintons when they moved to the New York City area in 2001, and as such knows all the salacious stories about Bill and Hillary.
6 posted on 05/26/2016 7:00:13 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: MaxistheBest

I agree with everything he said except for “We’ll get some black and Hispanic women as we go along.”

That demographic is the dumbest and will never vote republican.


7 posted on 05/26/2016 7:01:40 AM PDT by MNnice
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To: MaxistheBest

All of the races from 1992-2012 were NEVER hard.

We just either got lucky or botched it with weak candidates.

When you get people that don’t act like the GOPE, you “magically” do better.


8 posted on 05/26/2016 7:03:37 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: VanDeKoik

As a now former democrat (since March), who voted for Reagan both times, I maintain that Trump is one of the three strongest republican nominees in my lifetime. They are Nixon, Reagan and, of course, Trump. I did vote for Bush 41 twice and Bush 43 once, each time with virtually no enthusiasm.
There is not a doubt in my mind that Trump will do everything possible to emerge victorious. He has a reputation as a winner and his people instincts are uncanny. He has a marvelous rapport with average people and knows what at stake. That’s his rationale for running. He just got so frustration with McCain and Mittens’ failures, he concluded that he had to “do it himself!!” This attitude and his innate genius will NOT allow him to screw this election!!


9 posted on 05/26/2016 7:20:38 AM PDT by edie1960 (w)
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To: MNnice

Hispanics——From the article:

“The national polls are distorted,” “To get a national sample they rely too much on Hispanics from NY and California,

which is where large populations are, but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.”

“But if you look at Hispanics in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and even Florida, you see a different picture.

We’re going to target Hispanic voters in those and other swing states.”


10 posted on 05/26/2016 7:48:17 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: MaxistheBest

I’m more worried about the tidal wave of voter fraud than the the legitimate voting population.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 8:23:26 AM PDT by GregoTX
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To: MNnice

Blacks like Trump.


12 posted on 05/26/2016 9:28:09 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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