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red dog 1

(28,856 posts)
Sun May 26, 2024, 03:05 PM May 2024

Playbook: Trump's everything, everywhere, all at once strategy

POLITICO
May 26, 2024


Last night at the Washington Hilton, DONALD TRUMP addressed an audience that was rowdy -- but not for the reasons he's accustomed to.

They weren't the MAGA faithful.
Heck, they weren't even Republicans.
They were there for the Libertarian Party's national convention.
And many of them were decidedly not on board with the former president's entreaties that they join with him to defeat JOE BIDEN.
By and large, they don't see him as an ally to their cause.

And Trump didn't exactly handle it diplomatically

"Within minutes of beginning speaking -- and after enduring sustained jeering and boos -- the former president turned on the third party, mocking it's poor electoral record in presidential elections even as he appealed to them for their endorsement," writes Brittany Gibson and Peder Schaefer.

"What's the purpose of the Libertarian Party....getting 3 percent?"
Trump asked the crowd, which proceeded to pelt him with jeers.
"You should nominate Trump for president only if you want to win."

More:
https://politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2024/05/26/trumps-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-strategy-00160029

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Playbook: Trump's everything, everywhere, all at once strategy (Original Post) red dog 1 May 2024 OP
You don't necessarily win votes by calling your audience "Losers". no_hypocrisy May 2024 #1
Or calling America's veterans and war dead "suckers and losers" BoRaGard May 2024 #3
Same/same with Trump ridiculing and disrespecting all POWs. keithbvadu2 May 2024 #5
Tuck Frump malaise May 2024 #2
Diarrhea "Captain Pantload" Donny is the EverytRump Blue Owl May 2024 #4

BoRaGard

(2,263 posts)
3. Or calling America's veterans and war dead "suckers and losers"
Sun May 26, 2024, 03:36 PM
May 2024

The entire GOP apparently supports this position. Not a one of them has opened his yap to rebuke their Number One GOP Draft Dodger and Toxic Big Mouth.

Blue Owl

(53,851 posts)
4. Diarrhea "Captain Pantload" Donny is the EverytRump
Sun May 26, 2024, 05:11 PM
May 2024

The pantload in every diaper, the turd in every toilet, the fart in every elevator....

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