Posted on 07/22/2016 3:46:08 AM PDT by Helicondelta
Why? Because Donald Trump delivered Thursday night and did what he needed to do. No, he didn’t deliver a speech with great oratorical flourish. No, he didn’t broaden the base of the party significantly though he did speak about minorities and the LGBTQ community in ways that he hadn’t done before.
What Trump did, and he did it very well, was to raise the stakes of the election and define it in his own terms. Law and order, crime in the streets, and terror. He managed to make the argument, compellingly, that these challenges were the central ones America faced and that given the failures of President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, his way of change was the only way to go.
It was a long speech, it ran well over an hour and it was repetitive in parts. But that doesn’t matter. Trump was ultimately speaking to a fairly discrete and arguably specific constituency of Americans. Concentrated, though not exclusively, in the swing states of the industrial Midwest.
Trump’s remarks were directed at the 70-odd percent of Americans who feel the country is on the wrong track and his remarks were designed to amplify those feelings and offer – in general terms – a different way forward.
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Trump brings to politics what he learned in business. Never yield the initiative.
You left out “playing to voters’ worst fears and prejudices!!”
;^)
[Now Hillary - and her boot-licking media lackeys - can explain why they’re AGAINST law & order and fair trade agreements ...]
and why she shouldn’t go to JAIL!
“...viewers will be screaming back to their Flat Screens,,”Liar!!!!” or “Murderer !!!”.”
I’m partial to “Lock her up! Lock her up!”.
Kinda catchy...
video ping
see post #10
I’m halfway through listening to speech: WOW!
He’s taking it to Hillary!
Thank you very much. I’ll watch it now.
Trump is the first Republican since Reagan that is actually giving Americans SOMETHING TO VOTE FOR, rather than just saying: “Vote for me, as my Democrat opponent is worse”.
We tried that approach in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012. Of those elections, we won a majority of votes ONE TIME (2004), and then just barely (1988 doesn’t count as people were voting for a third term of Reagan...and they didn’t get it).
Facts are not fears, facts are truth, fear is borne out of doubt, anxiety, and the unknown.
So, if you’re Donald Trump, how best do you upstage HRC’s ‘coronation’ next week?
if he wins...honestly I think we are going to say this speech was the turning point.
if he doesn’t win...we are going to say we ran the very best candidate we possibly could, and he fought incredibly hard. but the rigged system can’t be beaten.
Enjoy the ride on the Trump Train.
Trump’s theme of law and order will be juxtapozed against the StarWarsCantinaBarScene crew of criminal supporters and cop-haters speaking at the DNC.
Oft repeated but true:
“You have a right to your own opinion, but not to your own facts”.
funny how ted Cruz is even more of an afterthought, I cant imagine his antics will be discussed again. BTW - where’s Carly?
1. Stage huge rallys in battleground states...2 or 3 a day
2 Fly over in the Trump 757
3. On line questions and answers from the public
4. Dribble out his cabinet picks
5. Hire a steam locomotive and period cars...go on a whistle stop tour
6....something unexpected.
I will be running scared if Hillary wins...
agreed. Laura Ingraham made the comment I’ve been feeling all along......which of the 16 other candidates would have us in a better position today? In the same panel, Chris Wallace could only offer that trump’s delivery was a bit off. What a useless turd.
7. Make a speech in front of the UN headquarters....announcing UN out of USA and USA out of UN....and the finding stops on Feb 17th.
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