Trump Campaign Withdraws From Virginia

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: The Wall Street Journal.

By Michelle Hackman

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Oct 13, 2016 9:05 am ET

Donald Trump’s campaign has decided to pull its field operation out of Virginia, all but conceding the state to Democrat Hillary Clinton, an adviser to Mr. Trump confirmed. ... The move came Wednesday night as Mr. Trump faced a new avalanche of allegations from women who told several different publications that the Republican nominee had groped or touched them without consent.

Mr. Trump had built up a modest field operation in the state, though – unlike neighboring North Carolina – the Trump camp never considered its 13 electoral votes as crucial to his path to 270. The decision also comes just three days after Mr. Trump fired his Virginia state director, Corey Stewart, after Mr. Stewart participated in a protest in front of the Republican National committee headquarters.

Mr. Stewart, a Prince William County Commissioner, told The Wall Street Journal on Sunday that he was promised 80 new staff positions by the RNC a few weeks ago, but only about one-quarter of that number were being deployed. ... “The RNC has not been very friendly and has been pulling resources out,” said Mr. Stewart. “They’ve been starving the Virginia Trump campaign even though it’s necessary to win the country. If we lose this state, it’s because of the RNC reneging on their promises to adequately fund the state’s ad program and ground operation.”
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Over the past decade, buoyed by growth in the state’s African-American, Latino and Asian populations, Virginia has become increasingly favorable terrain for Democrats. In a recent Real Clear Politics aggregate of polls, Mr. Trump trailed Mrs. Clinton by 9.4 points. ... President Barack Obama won the state twice after decades of Republican dominance – by 6 points and 2008 and 4 points in 2012.

Read more: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2016/10/13/trump-campaign-withdraws-from-virginia/

[underpants]

1. I've seen nothing of them here

Hillary can go elsewhere now too. It was never really much in doubt but picking Tim slammed it shut.

[Johnny2X2X]

2. Kaine delivered

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Kaine was a huge pick in that he guaranteed VA, without VA Trump has to sweep NC, NV, IA, PA, OH, and FL to win and that's impossible for him.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. Was gonna come here to say just that

I think it will have to wait for the stench of Trump to dissipate, but we will eventually come to see the Clinton/Kaine campaign as brilliant in its own right, and not simply sliding along on the Trump campaign's utter incompetence.

[jpak]

3. Ha Ha - the death spiral has begun for Trump's campaign

Let him take the rest of the GOP with him.

yup

[DK504]

5. it’s because of the RNC reneging on their promises to fund the state’s ad program

LOL...I thought Trump was going to finance his own election?

[Johnny2X2X]

8. Worse than we know

Trump did not have any ground game because he was going to rely on the Party to run his campaign in the states. His party pulled funds from him and told staffers to make up their own minds. They're days away from directing 100% of party resources away from Trump. Without the GOP, Trump will be running a national campaign with like 40 or 50 people total. He'd have a staff of less than 10 in states like PA, FL, and OH while Hillary has thousands to GOTV.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "Trump will be running a national campaign with like 40 or 50 people"

But who needs "ground game" when you have M$NBC & Faux on your side with millions and millions of free advertising, including numerous on-air blowhard "pundits" furiously applying orange pancake makeup in addition to the lipstick, on him?

[turbinetree]

6. Great news

Now maybe we can get a U.S. Supreme Court that will give the courts back to the citizens of this country.

This article in the American Prospect shows how one judicial judge has helped change this country to side with the corporations, and how the republicans and judges on the bench have decimated citizens rights on redress in the courts, and should be read by anyone and everyone.

This is what this election is about, a very good read


http://prospect.org/article/new-era-supreme-court

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Loudoun Times-Mirror: UPDATE: Trump campaign pulling out of Virginia, report says

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UPDATE: Trump campaign pulling out of Virginia, report says

Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 by Trevor Baratko

Donald Trump’s Republican presidential campaign is pulling out of Virginia, NBC News reported early Thursday, but Trump campaign officials say they're simply reallocating resources.

NBC’s Alexandra Jaffe and Ali Vitali quote “three sources with knowledge of the decision,” saying the order to shift campaign resources to other, more-competitive states “came from Trump's headquarters in New York and was announced on a conference call late Wednesday.”

The NBC report came three days after the GOP nominee's campaign fired the now former Virginia state campaign chairman, Corey Stewart, for Stewart’s role in a pro-Trump protest outside the Republican National Committee headquarters Monday.

Recent polls have shown Trump trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the commonwealth by anywhere from six to nine points. ... John Ullyot, the Trump campaign's deputy political director for communications, played down the NBC story, saying "we remain absolutely committed to winning in Virginia.”

[angrychair]

11. Riiiiiggghhhhttt

the Trump camp never considered its 13 electoral votes as crucial to his path to 270.

Don't believe that but if true than it is no surprise he is losing. 13 EV is not insignificant and a lot to concede right out of the gate.

[sofa king]

12. And we have a (D) running for every House seat.

https://www.opensecrets.org/races/election.php?state=VA

Admittedly, most of them have yet to raise $100,000 for their campaigns, but Republican incumbents have had to raise close to ten million bucks, collectively, to hold onto what they have.