Posted on 07/09/2016 5:01:11 AM PDT by kristinn
Donald Trump, in a sharp shift in strategy, is now refusing to appear on many television outlets, and top advisers who want to limit his exposure are no longer notifying him of every interview request.
According to sources familiar with the campaign, one faction is worried that the constant rounds of interviews entail too much risk of the candidate making mistakes or fanning minor controversies, even though his mastery at driving the media agenda helped power his Republican primary victory.
A series of clashes over these and other tactical questions has caused Trump himself to openly question who is running his campaign, the sources say. And he has expressed anger when he believes his orders aren’t being followed.
On the media front, Trump is no longer appearing on CNN or MSNBC. He is staying off the Sunday talk shows. Nearly all his national television interviews since June 1 have been with Fox News.
This more restrictive approach, combined with recent incidents in which some aides have acted contrary to Trump’s wishes, suggests a power shift as his children and especially his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, play an increasingly influential role.
Trump, who has resumed his full-throated denunciations of the media—such as calling CNN the Clinton News Network—personally vetted every TV invitation for most of the campaign. Now the staff is weeding out many requests without consulting him, the sources say, which could either be viewed as a mark of professionalization or an attempt to restrain Trump from being Trump.
Those in the caution camp want to avoid any repetition of Trump’s March sitdown with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, when he stumbled in suggesting that women should be punished for abortions. They do not share the candidate’s boundless confidence in taking on all media adversaries.
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Oh, I agree. Where would Trump be without such advice as this:
Trump needs to smarten up quick.”
Staging the media did not work so well for Jeb Bush.
In fact, pro-Bush, Megyn Kelly put the first spike into Jeb Bush when she asked him about the war in Iraq....he never recovered. It was a wonderful site to witness, watching him for days trying to reword what he meant to say. HA!
That was very early in his campaign, maybe his first interview after announcing he was running? I have often thought that is why Kelly CONTINUES to try so hard to destroy Trump, I do believe she got a lot of heat from the Bush Mob for accidentally nailing him. LOL
I’m laughing at the thought of an advisor controlling Trump.
Prevent defense prevents a win. Look at Mittens in the third debate and his disappearance in the last month of his campaign.
TRUMP NEEDS TO BE TRUMP!!! Otherwise, votes will drift away.
Yes especially his son in law who looks about 19. LOL!
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Thanks, to Stentor!
Amen!
Too many “ advisors”
All self important political managers
Donald. , clean house
Get rid of half your “ advisors” who ever worked for a losing campaign
Do it now!
Trump needs advisors who will strike a good balance between hypercaution and anything-goes. His brash style needs to be free to operate, but he needs to polish his presidential image. His statement about Dallas was perfect.
Thanks, Grampa Dave! I can see myself giving out that award once in a great while...to a truly deserving and worthy recipient. :)
Infighting is never a good sign in a political candidate’s camp.
McCain was almost even with Obama in 2008. The wife and daughter took over the campaign and started getting experts fired. We know how that turned out.
Romney in 2012. Same problem. Family took over aspects of the campaign because they didn’t like the way the experts were running it.
Wannabe Gingrich has the same problem in the primaries when his wife and daughter started running his campaign and getting experts fired.
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At that level, I am not sure family know better how to run political campaigns. Campaigns are tricky business. One major screw up, one oops moment can end a campaign.
Of course, the experts are not always right, either.
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But, I don’t put much faith in any advice to Republicans that Howard Kurtz gives. He is a Liberal trying to play a non-partisan analyst of media on FoxNews. He is like Chris Wallace who also is a Liberal trying to play a non-partisan Sunday morning newstalk program.
Neither are non-partisan and neither manage to hide their Liberal slants for very long.
Bravo! The memory half life of any Clintoon voter is about 10 seconds.
“Hillary voters have the attention span of a kitten. The “last image” is literally the last shiny object they saw. Everything else is just a blur.
If they were thinkers, there would be no Hillary candidacy.”
No need to be a dick. Just telling you my reasons.
Ditto!
Whenever you use it add another 1 to the total!
The article talks about “staff”.
They are, by position, Lilliputians.
The article says the Trump children and Kushner have more say these days, but we were discussing staff.
Trump knows how to listen and to key on sound advice.
The author is a Dem hack from way back, and I was surprised Fox even hired him, but most of the hires in the past two years have been libs.
The MSM is obviously spinning this to help #NeverTrump, but I agree with eliminating CNN and MSNBC.
The convention is about 10 days away. Keep Trump to his current public strengths (big televised rallies) where he can get his message out unfiltered.
Also, hold back on some of the reddest red meat for the convention speeches.
Some of the MSM have been whining, “Trump should be getting all of the FBI report bashing of Clinton out now.” Wrong.
Clinton and the MSM wants Trump to go all out on this now, so they can do the “old news, move along” quickly.
No, the biggest pounding of Clinton needs to happen at the convention, so the impact will be still felt at the Democrat convention the following week, imo.
Let Trump be Trump. That’s what’s gotten where he is. He needs to go to CNN and msnbc and eviscerate them in front of their fans.
I can but agree; if only Trump would smarten up quick—does that bear any relation to stop being not-smart, i.e.: stupid—all would be well.
Will do!
My take, fwiw, is that Kurtz doesn’t know beans. Trump, not his advisors, decided to stop appearing on the networks that went barking moonbat berserk over the sheriff’s star. He made his displeasure with them known, and then he declined to appear on their hysterical shows. (It may take a while to sink in, but the nets will figure it out eventually.) To all of which I say, good move!
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