GOP strategists fear it’s ‘too late’ for Trump to recover: ‘The toothpaste is out of the tube’

[DonViejo]

“The hole that Trump has dug for himself is very deep.”

by Sahil Kapur

October 3, 2016 — 12:01 AM EDT Updated on October 3, 2016 — 6:19 AM EDT

The worst week of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign began with a widely criticized debate performance and ended with a bombshell report that he could have avoided paying federal income taxes for 18 years.

In between, the blustery Republican lashed out at a Latina beauty queen in a series of 5 a.m. tweets, faced opposition from conservative editorial boards, went after Bill Clinton’s history of infidelity while refusing to discuss his own, was found to have appeared in a Playboy soft-core porn film, mocked Hillary Clinton’s recent battle with pneumonia, and told a crowd she “could actually be crazy.”

“This could be the worst week in presidential history for any candidate,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist and former communications director for Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign. “I certainly wouldn't know how to top it.” Many Republicans were left wondering whether Trump could recover or if he had effectively lost the race in the past seven days.

“The hole that Trump has dug for himself is very deep,” said Joe Watkins, a former aide to President George W. Bush. “Given the large viewing audience for the first debate and week of big missteps by Trump, it's possible that it could be too late to turn it around.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-10-03/trump-worst-week-ever

[BSdetect]

1. Vote early, vote postal

Go postal on drumph. No irony intended.

[Stuart G]

2. Yes indeed....Toothpaste out of the tube..and guess what?

It don't go back into the tube..never!

Have you tried that?..putting the toothpaste back into the tube?....don't work at all....

[longship]

3. And Trump just keeps digging!

"Let's get going! Everybody pick up your shovels! Atta boy, Rudy! Dig. DIG!!!!"

[VulgarPoet]

14. Drill, baby, drill... Right into Hell.

[ColemanMaskell]

4. Thanks for sharing that

[randome]

5. 'Strategists'. Ha! That's funny!

That's like me giving a statement at the bottom of the ninth inning to say that the losing team is...losing. Even the strategists for the GOP don't do any work!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesn’t always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one you’re already in.[/center][/font][hr]

[vlyons]

6. It's too late baby, now it's too late

from the great Carole King

[Fast Walker 52]

9. god, I hope so!

Great song!

[lonestarnot]

24. Crap great minds think alike.

[Maru Kitteh]

7. I ain't brushing my teeth with that shit

I don't care how good they say it is.

[trusty elf]

25. .....

Does anyone remember that old Pepsodent commercial?

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[Maru Kitteh]

31. photo link is broken - which one?

[trusty elf]

32. The one with the slogan

"You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent".

My pic said something other than "Pepsodent".

[Maru Kitteh]

33. Ha! Yeah. I DO remember that.

[Maru Kitteh]

34. Oh! I can see the pic now. FUNNY :-)

[Stuart G]

8. Rick Tyler, communications head for Cruz, "Trump in zone of being laughingstock & punchline"

Tyler was equally pessimistic about Trump's hopes. “He took a bad debate performance—which is survivable, it happens—and he turned it into the worst week of post-debate spin in presidential history. It was just self-inflicted,” he said. “He has now successfully entered into the zone of being a laughingstock and a punchline.”

[bulloney]

28. And yet,Cruz endorsed Trump.

[Fast Walker 52]

10. Let's hope this turns into a rout then

Though still can't get complacent

[Stuart G]

11. I think it will, but you are correct.."still can't get complacent"

[brooklynite]

12. "I certainly wouldn't know how to top it..."

I'd say that, with today's PTSD comments, he's off to a roaring start...

[bulloney]

29. Sean Insanity has been going into CYA mode for Trump's PTSD remarks on his show.

That toothpaste is out of the tube, too.

[brooklynite]

13. Remember a week ago, when people were panicking because "the race is tied"?

[Orsino]

15. It was too late at Woodstock, I believe.

His (lack of) character was set decades ago. To be a better candidate, he would have to become a different person.

[ailsagirl]

17. Had he worked on it for a year, he still would have lost IMO

A leopard can't change its spots

[riversedge]

16. “The hole that Trump has dug for himself is very deep,” said --It is a stinking sewer hole!

[cynzke]

18. Think of the latest revelations.....!

Demeans veterans with PTSD and he bought steel from China for his last development projects.

[TeamPooka]

19. Bake that cake! GOTV! nt

[SaschaHM]

20. It's almost like putting the lunatic you nominated in front of 80+ million...

was a terrible idea.

[kimbutgar]

21. I still think Cheeto can win

Between those voting tabulators being hacked, voter suppression and ID laws the cretin can still win. We need to overwhelm them and vote like our lives depend on it, because it does.

[JHB]

22. Toothpaste and tube. Much classier than the analogies that come to mind...

Mine are more appropriate, but I'll refrain from repeating them. I'm about to have dinner.

[lonestarnot]

23. Snort

[ffr]

26. We were adding new democrats to the registration rolls all evening

We're in a swing state that's already forecast to go blue, according to 538, 62% for HRC.

It's a very positive atmosphere and we're looking to do everything we can to give Hillary and Bernie a congress they can work with.

There's no quit in any of us. Every vote in every state.

[jmowreader]

27. Mr. Tyler, I know how to top Trump's Very Bad Week

Just wait till this week. He can only get worse.

[Gothmog]

30. K&R