I was with you up to the “Trump ground game”??? I have not seen a ground game yet, have you?
I’m not saying he has one, frankly he doesn’t need one.
When you can get 5-10,000 people to show up in places like Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina and 18,000 in Dallas who needs a ground game?
Every other candidate is going to need canvasers, yard signs, bumper stickers etc. to show traction and get results, none of them have the resources to do it after Nevada.
Trump has braggadociously has stated how little money he has spent. Bush spent $2,800 per vote in Iowa.
Cable news can’t go 60 minutes without a Trump story, his personal appearances generate local headlines, A block news stories and full day radio news reports. They sell out, run out of tickets/allocations inside 5 hours. It’s completely unreal.
No amount of money or traditional political campaigning, no matter how skillfully executed and articulated, is going to stand in Trump’s way. The SEC primary was designed to get the GOP nomination locked up, solidify the candidate and allow a unified (And early.) convention to move back the date of matching federal election funds.
It’s over, the political class knows it. The talking heads know it. The candidates know it. The only argument now is by how much and how can they keep the population engaged for the sake of ratings, relevance and political futures.
Actually, its his rallies. IMO. Hold a good rally and the rest falls into place.
In the general, he will need a LOT of people on the ground and hold a lot more rallies.
” I have not seen a ground game yet, have you?”
What is this, the 80’s? Ground game is now replaced by the Internet...twitter, facebook, instagram and to some extent email, but even that is old school. People don’t like strangers knocking on their door and most screen calls. The communication methods now are cheap and everyone does it. It’s the message and the person.