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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumpers have somebody new to blame for Trump's woes. Mark Meadows!
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/its-worse-than-ever-white-house-have-someone-new-to-blame-for-trumps-downward-spiral/
According to a report from Politico, a substantial number of Republican insiders now see no way for Donald Trump to turn around his re-election campaign before November.
With less than 100 days to go before the election and his polling numbers in free-fall, the president has been getting input from unofficial advisers like former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) who have urged him to use some of the campaign tricks that served him well in 2016 but others close to the president say they wont work this time.
Trump, according to 15 Republicans interviewed over the past week, is troubled that his usual arsenal seems to be having no effect, the report states, before adding that attacks on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden have fallen flat and that his greatest impediment to being re-elected the COVID-19 pandemic is not a foe that destroyed with a tweet.
The enemy here isnt something that punches back via Twitter, explained a former senior White House official. You need an enemy and Covids not cooperating, Bidens not cooperating.
The report goes on to note that finger-pointing has begun over the collapse of the campaign, with White House chief of staff Mark Meadows taking a fair amount of the criticism.
The question of Trumps descent raises the question of whose fault it is. Some political operations can be turned around by a change in staff. In March, former Rep. Mark Meadows became the presidents new chief of staff and has slowly reconfigured the presidents White House team. The Meadows era has coincided with the presidents steep decline, a fact that some Trump aides are quick to note, Politico reports with one White House official stating, I dont think his newest team is serving him well. In fact its worse than ever. They came in thinking they know best, and theyve not bothered to understand the president or West Wing.
I dont know if theyre giving him the whole picture, the official added. Its very much Kool-Aid drinkers and he doesnt want that. He never has.
According to another Republican, Trumps ongoing struggle to lay a hand on Biden shows the campaign has no strategy going forward.
What do you mean by strategy? asked an associate of the president. I dont think Donald Trump wakes up and says, Heres my strategy. Let me tweet out something. I dont think theres a political strategy there. He believes the way he interacts and communicates is what got him elected and hes going to continue to do that.
MARK MEADOWS, stand up and take a bow. You are the shiny new scapegoat!
I love the comment about Kool-Aid drinkers and how "he doesn't want that. He never has."
That is exactly what Trump has always wanted, dipshit.
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Trumpers have somebody new to blame for Trump's woes. Mark Meadows! (Original Post)
yellowcanine
Aug 2020
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abqtommy
(14,118 posts)1. I look forward to reading future history books that refer to the "ratfucking clusterfuck of
tRUMP/reTHUGS/cultists and sPUTIN". I hope I live to tell everyone that I was there and saw it in real time...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)2. K&R
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)3. All these tRumpers looking for their villain in Chump's demise
simply aren't looking high enough up the chain. They need to look at the top - that's where their problem nests. tRump IS the problem.