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Trump ramps up rally strategy that may come with more risk than reward
NBC "News" / Comcast ^ | October 19, 2020 | By Shannon Pettypiece

Posted on 10/20/2020 7:14:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

In President Donald Trump’s favored narrative of how elections are won and lost, the candidate who holds the most events with the biggest crowds wins.

"Every RALLY is BOFFO," he said in a Monday tweet about his confidence of winning re-election, telling campaign staffers on a call the same day that he was now more confident of winning than he was two weeks ago, when he appeared at no campaign events while recovering from Covid-19.

Now, with two weeks to go, he heads into the final stretch of the race relying heavily on his rallies to change the dynamic of the contest - a risky strategy for a persistently unpopular candidate, and one that has failed to demonstrate success in moving voters into his column.

In fact, there are no objective indications that Trump's rallies have any relation to boosting his support, with some suggestion they are just as likely to energize his opponents' supporters as they are his own.

In a study of the 2016 race, researchers looked at fundraising on the day of a Trump event and found that in the regions where the events were held, Clinton saw a significantly greater uptick in donations.

A separate study of the 2018 midterm elections found a similar effect, where Trump’s endorsement of congressional candidates in some areas sparked a backlash effect that was ultimately detrimental to those he was backing.

While Trump has done about half the rallies over the past two months compared to the same time in 2016, in those places where he has been aggressively campaigning for re-election his rallies don’t appear to have moved the needle in his direction.

Biden hasn’t held any large, in-person rallies this year, opting for small, social distanced events to show the seriousness with which he is taking the pandemic.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; election2020; journalism; media; trump
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1 posted on 10/20/2020 7:14:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC...just following orders.


2 posted on 10/20/2020 7:16:43 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Things that don’t surprise me...NBC “news” campaigning against highly effective Trump rallies.

KAG2020!


3 posted on 10/20/2020 7:17:26 AM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What a ridiculous article.


4 posted on 10/20/2020 7:17:27 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerantagreement)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden hasn’t held any large, in-person rallies this year, opting for small, social distanced events to show the seriousness with which he is taking the pandemic.

Now _that_ was amusing!

When Biden gets crunched in the electoral college, he can say he "lost with honor" because he showed how seriously he was taking the pandemic!
5 posted on 10/20/2020 7:17:37 AM PDT by cgbg (Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The last name of the whiner, whose Wet Dream is the basis of this whine posing as news, says all we need to know:

Pettypiece

6 posted on 10/20/2020 7:18:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The line that separated Satire, Democrats and Stupidity has vanished. (thanks to jonascord)!)
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Who exactly is NBC trying to convince? Trump? Good luck with that. Trump supporters? Yeah, right... Themselves, perhaps? Bingo!


7 posted on 10/20/2020 7:18:28 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot acceptI)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The rallies must be working incredibly well, if NBC is writing this kind of concern trolling to warn Trump against it


8 posted on 10/20/2020 7:18:29 AM PDT by Mount Athos
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Is this the babylon bee?


9 posted on 10/20/2020 7:19:37 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, six months of these rally’s and Trump supporters are dropping like flies.

Hey, how are all those Sturgis attendees doing? What about that big Memorial day thing with all the people in the pool at lake of the ozarks (or something like that). How’d they do?

We know how the president, Tom Hanks, and many others did.

My take away from this is that the virus is pretty harmless, but ventilators can kill you.


10 posted on 10/20/2020 7:21:13 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their scared to death.


11 posted on 10/20/2020 7:22:08 AM PDT by mmanager (Whew, been a while :))
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To: LIConFem

They’re trying to settle the feeling of impending doom among the Biden/Harris supporters.


12 posted on 10/20/2020 7:23:59 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

NBC IS Russian disinformation


13 posted on 10/20/2020 7:24:11 AM PDT by chuckee
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To: italianquaker

The National News Media is just ticked that Trump doesn’t lean on them to “help” his campaign, like the good little RINOS!

Trump has given more spine to the GOP than I can remember in my life!


14 posted on 10/20/2020 7:24:44 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Can someone tell me what the heck this slogan means:


15 posted on 10/20/2020 7:26:57 AM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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To: rrrod
a risky strategy for a persistently unpopular candidate,<<<

Yup....LMAO...That's how he got elected as a non-politician!..by being so unpopular.....

Do these people actually believe what they write????..or worse yet..expect us to......SMH .....CONcast is right!

16 posted on 10/20/2020 7:27:06 AM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shannon Pettypiece (now there’s a name [not her fault though]) — writes out of her butt it would appear. Her main drift is that the rallies are having a negative effect on DJT’s poll #s.

Gotta give her high marks for dreaming, though.


17 posted on 10/20/2020 7:27:29 AM PDT by Migraine ( Liberalism is great (until it happens to YOU).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just the enemy handing out advice again. Reminds me of the movie Little Big Man


18 posted on 10/20/2020 7:28:41 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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19 posted on 10/20/2020 7:29:05 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Williams

[[[What a ridiculous article.]]]

“Trump is campaigning and this could be a mistake for him”


20 posted on 10/20/2020 7:29:30 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Socialism- Institutionalized Deprivation)
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