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That 2016 campaign seems to be energizing voters in 2020. Just look at last night’s rally for evidence:



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Red said:
One of the "highlights" for me was watching him actually spend almost 15 minutes describing, and actually reenacting, his slow walk down the ramp at West Point! Then reenacting drinking a glass of water with two hands. He'll just never recognize how ridiculously insecure he looks explaining things like that....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...laining-about-coverage-his-west-point-speech/

What was so important that Trump felt the need to get back on the campaign trail, elevating the risk of exposure to the virus so significantly that the campaign made attendees sign disclaimers agreeing not to hold the campaign culpable if they contracted the virus?

But, if his actual speech is any guide, it was also to defend his ability to walk down a ramp and to drink water.

For 14 minutes and 15 seconds of his one hour, 43-minute speech, Trump walked through his speech one week ago at the U.S. Military Academy.

“You know, it was interesting — to show you how fake they are, you might have seen it,” he said — then letting loose for more than 14 minutes about what he did at the U.S. Military Academy, the weather, how many people he had to salute, the type of shoes he was wearing, various people calling him “sir” and telling him various things, speculation about his health, what he said to the first lady. Just a steady stream of rationalization, spin and exposition......
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This explains why the crowd was so dead. What a boring speech. I’ll admit, I watched some of it. But I missed this entire segment. Doesn’t sound like I missed anything. Yawn how boring.
 
Catchall said:
Hillary was sharp, and she had a lot of enthusiastic and dedicated supporters. Biden doesn't. Biden's whole strategy is to hide himself and hope that Trump provokes enough ire to get booted out of office. It's a risky play.

Trump's campaign will be a repeat of what got him elected in 2016--immigration, fighting Obama-care, fighting the political establishment, negotiating international trade, and curbing social liberalism. All of that is still on the table for him. Unless Joe can articulate a solid economic strategy, Trump will also be the stronger candidate on the economy at a time when the country needs an economic recovery. The riots, looting, and defunding of police departments are also playing right into his hands. None of that plays well politically. Trump is saying, "The left is crazy," and a lot of people now believe him.
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You’re either a Trumper or a Closeted Trumper. Which is it?
 
colton said:
Plus, it's clear from the video that he wasn't joking.
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No, he was not joking. And there's been plenty of evidence, from his own statements, some completely illogical, including how he prefaced that singular statement last night, that the more accurate the count of positive cases, the more it hurts his reelection chances, at least as he sees it. Quite the Freudian slip on his part, a rare moment of actually telling the truth. By mistake.
 
The Thriller said:
This explains why the crowd was so dead. What a boring speech. I’ll admit, I watched some of it. But I missed this entire segment. Doesn’t sound like I missed anything. Yawn how boring.
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Yeah, for sure. I started watching just before he launched into that. And I'm thinking "Good grief, is he just going to go on forever about the ramp? Lol, this is nuts!"
 
colton said:
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Yeah, that can absolutely be translated as Trump not caring how many Americans die from Covid-19. Testing revealed positives, leading to quarantines, and fewer cases. Also leading to contact tracing, and fewer cases. His call to slow down testing leads to more deaths. And this is funny exactly how?

I would hope, at his next presser, whether formal, or on a tarmac, or wherever, that reporters press him on this “joke”. I want to hear him, or any of his spokespeople, explain the joke. What exactly was the punch line of this joke? Why did the audience not laugh? And do not let him brush the question aside. If he does, next reporter up presses the issue: please explain what the punch line was; what was the humor in what you said, sir?
 
Did a prank help derail Trump’s rally?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html

President Trump’s campaign promised huge crowds at his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver. Hundreds of teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans say they’re at least partially responsible.

TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. After the Trump campaign’s official account @TeamTrump posted a tweet asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones on June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally — and then not show.

Many users deleted their posts after 24 to 48 hours in order to conceal their plan and keep it from spreading into the mainstream internet. “The majority of people who made them deleted them after the first day because we didn’t want the Trump campaign to catch wind,” Mr. Daniel said. “These kids are smart and they thought of everything.”
 
The Thriller said:
what did you think of him running the Bernie playbook against Biden tonight? I mean, it sounds like “the far left” is using Biden and comrades Cortez and Omar are going to have prominent cabinet positions. They may form a “Soviet” to burn down churches and oil rigs. Trump even said that comrade Cortez hates windmills!

I’ll be honest, that didn’t seem to really land well in Tulsa. I mean, it didn’t seem like even they were buying that ****. I don’t think painting Biden as a radical socialist is working.
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trumps Spends millions attacking Biden aS Biden extends his lead.

what’s that smell?


Desperation
 
Red said:
Yeah, that can absolutely be translated as Trump not caring how many Americans die from Covid-19. Testing revealed positives, leading to quarantines, and fewer cases. Also leading to contact tracing, and fewer cases. His call to slow down testing leads to more deaths. And this is funny exactly how?

I would hope, at his next presser, whether formal, or on a tarmac, or wherever, that reporters press him on this “joke”. I want to hear him, or any of his spokespeople, explain the joke. What exactly was the punch line of this joke? Why did the audience not laugh? And do not let him brush the question aside. If he does, next reporter up presses the issue: please explain what the punch line was; what was the humor in what you said, sir?
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colton said:
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The first problem is that his base perceives it as a joke (or a non-serious or -binding comment).

The second problem is the inability to reach these people through established institutions or even communication platforms, in general. You know... reach them, and then reason through our problems together. In a very real sense, they appear hardened into their position. Shaming certainly hasn’t seemed like an effective tool in changing minds.
 
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