I don't know if it's possible for Trump to win, but if he wants a chance he needs to change his talking points pretty quickly.
His attempts to paint Hillary as against women due to Bill's bad behavior will do absolutely nothing to change the mind of someone, especially women, who support HC.
Why in the world is he bringing this up? It is decades old, and his anti-woman comments are fresh.
Also, quit talking trash about the other GOP candidates. You have beaten them--but now you need to steal that vote. Insulting their candidate is like telling someone their baby is ugly. You don't do it.
Right now, you're hitting as many bad notes as a contestant of "The Voice".
If I were Trump's campaign manager, I would make HC as scary as possible. I think fear is the only reason people will vote for Trump, beyond his current supporters.
So, I would tell him:
1) Focus on SCOTUS and the ramifications of HC appointments. HC's choices will impact your children, and your children's children.
2) Focus on guns, gunz, and more guns! HC is coming to take them.
3) Abortion. The only social point that still resonates. I would try and pander this very hard with Mexican/Hispanic voters. She wants to kill babies late term.
4) Lyin' Hillary. There are plenty of options out there to create ugly she said/she said commercials that show her lying, and being angry and rude. There is even plenty that show her speaking rudely to black voters. She has flipped, flopped, and flipped again. Use her own words, spoken in this decade, against her.
5) Start talking about Section 8 housing, educate the public on how it works. One of her rumored VP selections, Julian Castro, loves the idea of moving the poor in to higher income neighborhoods, whether they want to go or not.
Does anyone want their home values to go down, and their neighborhood potentially trashed? Explain what recently happened in Baltimore, (forced to spend $30 million to build 1000 affordable housing units in high income neighborhoods, as just one thing) and Small- Area Fair Market rents and what they mean for your streets and families.
Do you want your neighborhood turned in to an area such as this?
6) Help millennial crowd understand how Obamacare is impacting them. They are shouldering the health costs of the elderly, and with the exit of a 123 year old United Health, along with Aetna, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Humana, the rates they pay for insurance will only get higher.
The less insurers, more you pay, and you get worse care, and fewer physicians.
7) Pick someone with experience and a steady hand for VP., and make sure we understand he is more of a co-pilot than the normal VP. I understand how hard this will be for a guy like you.
8) Jobs. I don't even think you have to present a real plan, just focus on jobs. Say the word, lots of times. People want to feel secure in the fact that they will have a good job. Business is supposed to be your area of expertise, so prove it. If you have a plan, now may be a good time to give up the details.
9) The Wall is stupid. You sound stupid when you speak of it. People trying to cross our borders are willing to pay every cent they have to crawl in to an empty freight car, and hope the driver lets them out. These people walk across deserts, sometimes dying of thirst. Here in Texas, they swim through a river with deadly undercurrents. Do you honestly think that these people will risk all of that, get to a wall, and say, "whoops, it's over. There is a wall there." Speak instead of ways to legally allow Mexican people in to the US. I don't want to be over-run by people from Mexico, but, if I had been born in Mexico, you can damn well bet I would be doing everything in my power to get my family here. The toothpaste is out of the tube, lets focus on how we can make it manageable and maybe work with Mexico to help make it a place Mexicans don't want to leave so badly.
I try and keep my ears open and hear all sides of things politically. I have friends that are HC or die, (usually my attorney female friends) and absolutely nothing will shake them. The vast majority of them laugh of any attempt at a reasonable question about emails, Benghazi, etc. So, Trump, give up on these folks. Nothing you could ever say will take the blinders off.
I have another group that are getting ready to jump off the cliff, (usually my friends who are MDs or in the medical field) Right now, they (including me) are shaken, and don't know what to do. We don't want to vote Trump, but we can't stand the thought of HC.
I don't really have any angry, lower income friends, but, I have a true-blue Bernie supporter who despises HC. Her name is Cat, she walks my dogs. She is 28 and lives with her parents. She has some college, but hasn't graduated. She has never held a "real" job, except for waitressing, and has been fired from all of those jobs. Her favorite past times are smoking weed, and watching tv. (you guys can PM me for her number--she's a keeper!)
I asked her if there would be anything that would make her vote for Trump. In her own words, "expose Hillary for the lying b**** she is. If he could make Americans understand what a liar she is, that would be cool."
So, quit talking old news if you really want to win. I don't even know who I want to win--right now I don't have choices, but I think I speak for many of my friends and acquaintances when I say--if you focus on the above, and mean it--you will most likely win our votes. If it will be enough to beat Hillary, I have no idea.
His attempts to paint Hillary as against women due to Bill's bad behavior will do absolutely nothing to change the mind of someone, especially women, who support HC.
Why in the world is he bringing this up? It is decades old, and his anti-woman comments are fresh.
Also, quit talking trash about the other GOP candidates. You have beaten them--but now you need to steal that vote. Insulting their candidate is like telling someone their baby is ugly. You don't do it.
Right now, you're hitting as many bad notes as a contestant of "The Voice".
If I were Trump's campaign manager, I would make HC as scary as possible. I think fear is the only reason people will vote for Trump, beyond his current supporters.
So, I would tell him:
1) Focus on SCOTUS and the ramifications of HC appointments. HC's choices will impact your children, and your children's children.
2) Focus on guns, gunz, and more guns! HC is coming to take them.
3) Abortion. The only social point that still resonates. I would try and pander this very hard with Mexican/Hispanic voters. She wants to kill babies late term.
4) Lyin' Hillary. There are plenty of options out there to create ugly she said/she said commercials that show her lying, and being angry and rude. There is even plenty that show her speaking rudely to black voters. She has flipped, flopped, and flipped again. Use her own words, spoken in this decade, against her.
5) Start talking about Section 8 housing, educate the public on how it works. One of her rumored VP selections, Julian Castro, loves the idea of moving the poor in to higher income neighborhoods, whether they want to go or not.
Does anyone want their home values to go down, and their neighborhood potentially trashed? Explain what recently happened in Baltimore, (forced to spend $30 million to build 1000 affordable housing units in high income neighborhoods, as just one thing) and Small- Area Fair Market rents and what they mean for your streets and families.
Do you want your neighborhood turned in to an area such as this?
6) Help millennial crowd understand how Obamacare is impacting them. They are shouldering the health costs of the elderly, and with the exit of a 123 year old United Health, along with Aetna, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and Humana, the rates they pay for insurance will only get higher.
The less insurers, more you pay, and you get worse care, and fewer physicians.
7) Pick someone with experience and a steady hand for VP., and make sure we understand he is more of a co-pilot than the normal VP. I understand how hard this will be for a guy like you.
8) Jobs. I don't even think you have to present a real plan, just focus on jobs. Say the word, lots of times. People want to feel secure in the fact that they will have a good job. Business is supposed to be your area of expertise, so prove it. If you have a plan, now may be a good time to give up the details.
9) The Wall is stupid. You sound stupid when you speak of it. People trying to cross our borders are willing to pay every cent they have to crawl in to an empty freight car, and hope the driver lets them out. These people walk across deserts, sometimes dying of thirst. Here in Texas, they swim through a river with deadly undercurrents. Do you honestly think that these people will risk all of that, get to a wall, and say, "whoops, it's over. There is a wall there." Speak instead of ways to legally allow Mexican people in to the US. I don't want to be over-run by people from Mexico, but, if I had been born in Mexico, you can damn well bet I would be doing everything in my power to get my family here. The toothpaste is out of the tube, lets focus on how we can make it manageable and maybe work with Mexico to help make it a place Mexicans don't want to leave so badly.
I try and keep my ears open and hear all sides of things politically. I have friends that are HC or die, (usually my attorney female friends) and absolutely nothing will shake them. The vast majority of them laugh of any attempt at a reasonable question about emails, Benghazi, etc. So, Trump, give up on these folks. Nothing you could ever say will take the blinders off.
I have another group that are getting ready to jump off the cliff, (usually my friends who are MDs or in the medical field) Right now, they (including me) are shaken, and don't know what to do. We don't want to vote Trump, but we can't stand the thought of HC.
I don't really have any angry, lower income friends, but, I have a true-blue Bernie supporter who despises HC. Her name is Cat, she walks my dogs. She is 28 and lives with her parents. She has some college, but hasn't graduated. She has never held a "real" job, except for waitressing, and has been fired from all of those jobs. Her favorite past times are smoking weed, and watching tv. (you guys can PM me for her number--she's a keeper!)
I asked her if there would be anything that would make her vote for Trump. In her own words, "expose Hillary for the lying b**** she is. If he could make Americans understand what a liar she is, that would be cool."
So, quit talking old news if you really want to win. I don't even know who I want to win--right now I don't have choices, but I think I speak for many of my friends and acquaintances when I say--if you focus on the above, and mean it--you will most likely win our votes. If it will be enough to beat Hillary, I have no idea.
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