Trump Says He'll Probably Never Pivot For The General Election

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JULY 14, 2016, 6:59 AM EDT

Donald Trump on Wednesday said that it's unlikely that he'll change his unconventional campaigning style now that he's about to be officially nominated as the Republican presidential nominee.

During an interview on Fox News, Brett Baier asked Trump if he was pivoting toward being a "controlled presidential candidate."

"I don’t think so. I want to be myself," Trump replied. "It got me here."

He added that if he used a teleprompter at one of his campaign rallies, "I think you’d probably lose most of them by the time I was finished." Though Trump said he'd likely use a teleprompter at the Republican convention.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. So he's pivoting.

He was going to pivot but he's pivoted from that position.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. He thrives on unpredictability

could be disinformation

in a disciplined system of conventional wisdom and methodology
that guides campaigns in the two-party system, could this
non-strategy overturn the applecart?

I keep telling myself impossible.

Hope I'm right.

[morningfog]

3. He's just insecure. He can't make decisions because he has

no core, no center. His an insecure megalomaniac.

[babydollhead]

5. i think he is "the extroverted solipsist" n/t

[klook]

4. Drumpf flip-flops again!

It's his M.O. The only constant is "Me, me, me."



Abortion and 10 other Donald Trump flip-flops

[bulloney]

6. "I don’t think so. I want to be myself," Trump replied. "It got me here."

That strategy worked in the primaries because you're pandering to your base of paranoid, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging inbreeds. Let's see how that works in the general election when your base is diluted.

The key will be voter turnout. If Trump's opponents become complacent and don't vote, then our worst nightmare will become reality.

[christx30]

10. ^ This, this, a million times this.

"Mexicans are rapists, let's build a wall" worked when dealing with the GOP base. But when you're dealing with everyone else in the middle and the left, well, we prefer a more... nuanced response.
He truly doesn't understand how politics work. Maybe he's promising to stay true, just to clench the nomination? There are still a couple of people that are nipping at his heals. There's still the NeverTrump people out there trying to stage a coup at the convention. Worst case scenario, he's going to pivot after the convention. Best case, after the convention, he's going to come out with 101 ways Mexico will pay for the wall. Then we know we'll win.

[rug]

7. Watching him is like watching a genetically defective plant grow.

Unpredictable and grotesque.

[Laser102]

8. Sub human species. Crawled out of the earth to devour humanity. Morlocks come to mind.

When will they drug test him? I would bet money he's on something.

[Statistical]

9. This is good news right?

Nobody wins the general without pivoting. Your promise your party stuff to win the primary and then focus on the middle to win the general. It is how everyone President in the last century became the President. It is a little white lie that everyone knows and pretends doesn't happen. If Trump doesn't understand that well there is no way he wins.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. The problem with the GOP though

is that when they "pivot", they have to do so from a position so far to the right that they have to flip flop on every previous position, and that is why they think they lost the previous 2 elections.

It seems to me it's like he is going to test NOT pivoting to see what happens.

[Marcuse]

12. The Pivot won the first debate for Romney.

"Tax cuts??? What tax cuts!!!". Trump really thinks he has 270 electoral votes by staying the course.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. The debates became irrelevant

because the next go around, Romney then proceeded to put foot in mouth (after being told to "Please proceed Governor", and earned himself a schooling by, of all people, Creepy Crawly:

The difference here with Trump is that he is running his campaign like an epic reality show, so he has the cover of being a paid "charlatan-as-entertainer" and can more easily "pivot" if he wanted, without the blow-back, because it is part of the "entertainment value" of him. So there's really no reason for him to do so because he is a fake. The sad part is all the idiots who believe he is "for real".

If the Mike Pence rumor proves to be true, ALL of the "pivoting" will be thrust upon him because he is not the "entertainer" and isn't even schooled enough in media matters to perform the "straight guy" role in the Trump show, so he will see a hard way to go.