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Trump Relies on a 12-Year-Old Campaign Manager in Colorado

August 23, 2016 Buck Banks

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Age of Weston Imer, who runs the Jefferson County operation for the Trump campaign “in one of the most important counties in swing state Colorado,” KDVR-TV reports.

A Panicky Plan

August 22, 2016 Buck Banks

It’s with no small sense of urgency
Some GOPers are planning an insurgency.
To save down-ballot,
They’ll use a mallet
To “Break Glass In Case of Emergency.”

GOP Insiders Don’t Think Trump Campaign Shakeup Will Help

August 22, 2016 Buck Banks

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Of Republican members of the Politico Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states — believe Trump’s reshuffling will move the campaign in the right direction. Just as many, 31 percent, say the installation of Breitbart News executive Stephen Bannon as campaign CEO and pollster Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager, represent a turn for the worse.

Bringing On Breitbart

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016 Buck Banks

His campaign’s unlikely to outlive it,
And the GOP’s unlikely to forgive it.
But by hiring Steve Bannon,
Trump remains a loose cannon,
And he’s proved once and for all he ain’t gonna pivot.

Trump’s Not Going to Pivot After All

August 18, 2016August 18, 2016 Buck Banks

Donald Trump, following weeks of agitation over his advisers’ attempts to temper his style, moved Wednesday to overhaul his struggling campaign by rebuffing those efforts and personally elevating two longtime associates who have encouraged his combative populism. … Trump’s decision sent a powerful signal to Republicans and Democrats alike that the real estate magnate intends to finish the presidential race on his own terms and that his closing argument to voters will defy the usual partisan template of general-election campaigns. … In its place will be a political pitch with ire directed at both parties and a fierce anti-establishment ethos, coupled with harsh critiques of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

— Washington Post

Most Republicans Still Want Trump as Their Candidate

August 10, 2016 Buck Banks

70%

Of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to stay as the party’s nominee while 19% would like him to quit, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds.

GOP Security Officials: Trump Unfit to Be President

August 9, 2016 Buck Banks

50

Number of former national security officials — all of whom have served Republican presidents from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush — who signed an open letter calling Donald Trump unqualified to be president and warning that, if elected, ‘he would be the most reckless President in American history,’ the Washington Post reports.

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Seven in 10 GOPers Want Trump Out of Race

August 5, 2016 Buck Banks

70%

Of Republican insiders anonymously polled by Politico want Donald Trump to drop out of the race. Said one: “I’d rather take our chances with nearly anyone else than continue with this certain loser who will likely cost the Senate and much more.”

Trump Destroying the GOP

August 3, 2016 Buck Banks

Things have deteriorated for the GOP because Donald Trump’s comments about Russia and Vladimir Putin have further shredded the Republican Party’s historically greatest strength: national security and defense themes. Add to that Trump’s — and GOP delegates’ — performance at their convention (‘Lock her up!’) and Trump’s positions on trade, taxes, spending and entitlements, which also contradict the long-standing Republican message, and the party is nothing short of a mess

— Stuart Rothenberg

GOP’s Hannah Says He’ll Vote for Clinton

August 3, 2016 Buck Banks

I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?

— Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY), telling the Syracuse Post Standard that he will vote for Hillary Clinton for president because Donald Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”

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Trump Relies on a 12-Year-Old Campaign Manager in Colorado

12

Age of Weston Imer, who runs the Jefferson County operation for the Trump campaign “in one of the most important counties in swing state Colorado,” KDVR-TV reports.

A Panicky Plan

GOP Insiders Don’t Think Trump Campaign Shakeup Will Help

1/3

Bringing On Breitbart

Trump’s Not Going to Pivot After All

— Washington Post

Most Republicans Still Want Trump as Their Candidate

70%

Of registered Republicans want Donald Trump to stay as the party’s nominee while 19% would like him to quit, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds.

GOP Security Officials: Trump Unfit to Be President

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Seven in 10 GOPers Want Trump Out of Race

70%

Of Republican insiders anonymously polled by Politico want Donald Trump to drop out of the race. Said one: “I’d rather take our chances with nearly anyone else than continue with this certain loser who will likely cost the Senate and much more.”

Trump Destroying the GOP

— Stuart Rothenberg

GOP’s Hannah Says He’ll Vote for Clinton

I think Trump is a national embarrassment. Is he really the guy you want to have the nuclear codes?

— Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY), telling the Syracuse Post Standard that he will vote for Hillary Clinton for president because Donald Trump is “unfit to serve our party and cannot lead this country.”

Poetic Justice

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“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”