Well in the meanwhile we have the chaos hell summer of division, hate, and armies of identity politics chickens coming home to roost!
His statement on Dallas was a rare spot of sanity in a mad world.
His biggest asset is his brand and ability to command exposure.
I really hope he is not being advised by the same losers as other before him. Very troubling.
This whole thing is a hit piece, put up by Hillary herself...to cause doubt in Trump, what else does she have?
I am actively working on the Trump campaign and I can assure you all that Trump is being Trump, NO ONE tells Trump what he’s going to do, when where or how and why...HE TELLS THEM...
I sent a research article I found one day to the person I send things to, and it came back to me saying ‘great job’ and that wasn’t from the person I connect to, not the style, I know where that came from...
You know when your being listened to, when the stuff you send in is being read and by whom it’s being read by, you know if it even gets to the top, in the months I have worked on the campaign, this is the first time I have received a note like that...
Trump is doing great..he knows what he is doing, he knows who is doing what, people don’t tell Trump what he’s going to do, he tells them...
Is there a counter story where the media claims they’re not booking Trump, and Trump claims he’s not accepting?
I think after Ledondoski sacking Manafort has a lock on the lead campaign advisor. Don’t think anybody is going to mess with him.
....[Trump] is staying off the Sunday [morning] talk shows....
Good! Go to Church with your family instead, and help end the DISASTROUS “Sunday morning news cycle”!!!! (Last Sunday, it was the bogus “Star of David” meme.)
On Sunday afternoon, answer the garbage that came out earlier that day, and praise the most salutary practice of Church attendance!!!!
Let’s see: FBI fails to indict Clinton yet de facto indicts Clinton showing she was lying to the American people, repeatedly.
Obama and the left condemn ALL police as racists. Voila resul five police are gunned down in cold blood by a Black Lives Matter terrorist.
Why would Teump need to do a hostile interview aimed at tripping him up and giving the opposition a sound bite when his enemies are absolutely self destructing? Never interrupt your enemies when they are making a mistake.
Nobody manages Trump but Trump. That being said he really does not have to go on every Trump hating show just because they ask. When was the last time you saw Hillary on Fox?
Trump needs to smarten up quick. He got where he is by NOT doing what other politicians do. He’s never going to be able to outpolitic the Clintons in a conventional campaign.
The weekend, shows will be dominated by dead police officers, Hillary blaming white people and the need for gun control. We’ll see more BLM protests and Democrats calling Rudy Giuliani a racist. By Monday, Americans will be ready to vomit!
Next week, we will see police memorials, police officers honored and celebrated, and their family members mourning.
Trump doesn’t need to say anything this weekend. Next week, he will have a lot to say. Behind the scenes, Trump is working on winning.
And we will roll right into the VP pick and the GOP convention!!!!
He’s learning that politics is the second oldest profession.
HOWART KURTZ...the fruitcake of FOX NEWS.
ENOUGH SAID
Meh!
Just hot air and filling empty space from Kurtz.
Who cares what he thinks he thinks
NO ONE can command interest and excitement on the airwaves better than Trump.
And he didn’t get where he is by allowing helpers to lead him by the nose.
This is pure drivel.
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
Trump needs to be Trump and quit listening to his advisors. Fire the SOB’s.
“The counsels of war breed timidity” - MacArthur.
“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.”
I think this is a sound strategy. By staying with Fox, he is getting more viewers than CNN, MSNBC and pretty much every other media outlet combined. Why give the left soundbites to twist any way they want to twist it?