Posted on 10/25/2016 3:48:58 PM PDT by longtermmemmory
It has been an increasingly caustic environment behind the scenes between Team Trump and GOP elites that has seen Republican power brokers effectively wall in the Trump campaign. GOP funding has been all but cut off, and so too has the institutionalized state-to-state ground game so critical in winning battleground states on Election Day.
Donald Trump, and his millions of supporters, are truly on their own.
The primary impetus behind this effort is said to be three-fold, coming in the form of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and long-ago ousted, onetime GOP presidential front-runner, Jeb Bush.
The Bush clan’s animosity toward Trump is both deep and determined to see Donald Trump not only lose on Election Day, but be humiliated – which in turn the Bush family hopes, will humiliate Trump supporters as well, so that they might “learn their lesson” and leave the political matchmaking to the professional political class.
These elites view Hillary Clinton as a more than acceptable alternative, for she is of course, a respected member of the same elitist club. The choice was to be either Jeb or Hillary. Trump’s astounding rise within the Republican ranks pushed over that manufactured political apple cart, leaving the Establishment to now make certain it will be Hillary who emerges victorious in November.
That certainty will be achieved via wins for Team Hillary in both Florida and Ohio, two critical battle-ground states now being heavily influenced by anti-Trump GOP forces. Both states have in the past required significant ground game efforts. Trump’s ground game is modest at best, made more so by the GOP’s reluctance to allow the Trump campaign to plug into the Republican Party’s state-to-state get out the vote machine.
And while Jeb Bush and the remnants of his time as Florida governor do that work there, current Ohio Governor John Kasich is said to be doing the same in his state.
Instead of helping to get out the vote, the GOP’s ground-game machine is now working double-time to repress the potential Trump vote, even going so far as refusing to spend campaign contributions raised by Trump for the Republicans Party on pro-Trump ads.
Thanks for the money, Donald. Now go f*ck yourself.
The Establishment of both parties and the media want YOU, the Trump voter, to be punished for daring to think for yourself. Donald Trump put a significant scare into the status quo, and it is a scare that the powers that be feel there should be consequences for. They intend to have Donald Trump lose the election, have his reputation tarnished, and his fortunes greatly diminished so as to make certain that what has been in reality, the single most successful independent presidential candidacy in modern era of American politics, never happens again.
We have rigged voting machines. We have party insiders betraying their party members. Remember these are the scum that told us we HAD to support Romney, We had to support Mccain.
It is truly the establishment media, establishment politicians, and the establishment cronies vs the United States.
Bout time for a revolution.
Well then, if their tricks and deceit work, lets burn the mother ####er down!!!
Rhetorically speaking, of course.
First, let’s make sure Trump wins even with all this nonsense.
Second, if it is stolen from him, this thing of ours is JUST GETTING STARTED!!!
Paul Ryan and a bunch of other republican ####s have emailed me a dozen times for money.
I always reply...”Get the #### out of here. You ####ed Trump and you want money from me?”
I am not the biggest fan of Hannity, but he said yesterday something I totally support: win or lose, I am pretty much done with the Republican establishment. They are as much the enemy of liberty as Democrats.
I do not propose destroying the party per se....but instead removing the leaders.
I am not the biggest fan of Hannity, but he said yesterday something I totally support: win or lose, I am pretty much done with the Republican establishment. They are as much the enemy of liberty as Democrats.
I do not propose destroying the party per se....but instead removing the leaders.
The Cronies think they will humiliate with a loss?
Remember the Alamo? Pearl Harbor? Dunkirk? Thermopile?
DC is truly stuck on stupid.
I agree with you. We need to drive out the establishment and restore the Republican Party. Starting a third party will only ensure the Democrats regain and stay in power.
Ground game, smound game. I don’t see how a stranger knocking on someone’s door is going to make them vote one way or the other. They’d have to be one hell of a sales person to make any difference.
In the big picture it doesn’t even much matter who controls Congress after the election. Either party will oppose a President Trump and either party will allow a President Mrs Bill a free hand. Trump, as president, has to take advantage of the fact that the last three presidents and the Congress itself have sucked ALL of the actual power out of Congress and have left almost all power in the hands of the Executive. The Congress can hamper Trump only if he allows it to happen. Trump’s problem is going to be getting control of the Bureaucracy. If he can do that then he will have a successful Presidency. If he were to abolish the Agencies totally then America will have a successful Trump Presidency. The Bureaucracy will fight him tooth and nai.
We have been saying for a long time that The Powers That Be are two sides to the same coin. They would rather see President Hillary than President Donald. This is the proof.
“Trump, as president, has to take advantage of the fact that the last three presidents and the Congress itself have sucked ALL of the actual power out of Congress”
You watch how fast power goes back to Congress if Trump wins. The speed of the hypocritical grandstanding will blow your mind.
“The Crony Tyrants want to keep control.”
These pathetic losers actually think that a Hillary! regime plans to share power (or spoils) and that She won’t just abolish their wing of the Uniparty. She doesn’t need an opposition, not even a pretend one. They will receive the Trump treatment if they ever attempt to run for office again — good luck standing up to that when you don’t have a spine.
They have no base and are incapable of ever getting a single crossover vote.
I did not hear him say that but, if he did, I agree with him.
Unfortunately, the establishment wins no matter who is elected.
This year is an exception. Donald Trump is not one of them and, for that reason, is the man I will vote for.
For the rest of my days, I will fight the establishment because they are the group that I have always fought against. THE ARE COMMUNISTS!
When we ALL realize that, maybe we can throw them all out.
Congress cannot reclaim its ceded power. Initially, Trump won’t have it, either. He has to take it from the Agencies. The Executive IS the government now and it will be a contest between the President and the Departments and Agencies as to who exercises that power. A Democrat President, being part and parcel of the Ruling Class that includes the Agencies will slide right into the headship of the Executive. Trump has to kill the Agencies or become a cipher.
This is exactly why I gave straight to Trumps campaign and not to the gop.
Did Trump have a “ground game” during the Primary?
No. He. Did. Not.
And yet there was record turnout during the primaries, with people willing to wait in line for 3 hours to vote for Trump.
There is no ground game now. But people are even MORE willing to wait in line to vote for Trump, because now we KNOW how corrupt they all are, and Trump is the only one who will drain the swamp.
We take names, and in the works of FNC’s pet pollster “The voters want REVENGE!”
I read an article on Breitbart today about the more on guy from Utah running as a conservative. He says the goal was to keep Trump and Hillary from winning enough electoral votes, but if he can just keep Trump from winning that’s good enough for him.
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