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Inside Donald Trump’s Last Stand: An Anxious Nominee Seeks Assurance

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giga

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Great reporting from the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html

Highlights.

He needs constant reassurance and is growing anxious by each day.

Donald J. Trump is not sleeping much these days.

Aboard his gold-plated jumbo jet, the Republican nominee does not like to rest or be alone with his thoughts, insisting that aides stay up and keep talking to him. He prefers the soothing, whispery voice of his son-in-law.

He requires constant assurance that his candidacy is on track. “Look at that crowd!” he exclaimed a few days ago as he flew across Florida, turning to his young press secretary as a TV tuned to Fox News showed images of what he claimed were thousands of people waiting for him on the ground below.
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They took his twitter away. But he continues to think of ways to punish his enemies after Tuesday.

The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a “super PAC” with vengeance as its core mission.
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Ivanka is distancing herself to save her brand.

His polished older daughter, Ivanka, sat for a commercial intended to appeal to suburban women who have recoiled from her father’s incendiary language. But she discouraged the campaign from promoting the ad in news releases, fearing that her high-profile association with the campaign would damage the businesses that bear her name.
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His staff are infighting and "unfirable" to avoid headlines.

Mr. Trump’s campaign is no longer making headlines with embarrassing staff shake-ups. But that has left him with a band of squabbling and unfireable advisers, with confusing roles and an inability to sign off on basic tasks. A plan to encourage early voting in Florida went unapproved for weeks.

The result is chaotic. Advisers cut loose from the campaign months ago, like Corey Lewandowski, still talk to the candidate frequently, offering advice that sometimes clashes with that of the current leadership team. Mr. Trump, who does not use a computer, rails against the campaign’s expenditure of tens of millions on digital ads, skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect.
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He thinks he's run a perfect campaign and will win.

Back on his plane, heading into the campaign’s final weekend, Mr. Trump reclined on his leather chair and refused to entertain any suggestions that he had erred at any point in his unorthodox, unpredictable and now uncertain campaign for the presidency.

“I’m going to win,” he said.
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RPGCrazied

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Good. Crush this man's ego. To watch him fall on Tuesday is going to be the best day of my life in quite a long time.

Yeah, I hate this man.
 
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Maxim726X

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Yet, will somehow get 40-43% of the national vote.

Even though the election is 2 days away, it's still hard to believe that Donald Trump is among the last 2.
 
sazzy

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I asked this in poligaf, but seems appropriate here too:

what will come first: donald's concession speech or his first tweet since Oct 20th?
 
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Username1198

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Mr. Trump, who does not use a computer, rails against the campaign’s expenditure of tens of millions on digital ads, skeptical that spots he never sees could have any effect.
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WOW what a fucking moron.

He and his nasty ilk need to be destroyed on Tuesday.
 
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Jesus, half the country want him in charge of the nukes, his own team don't trust him with a twitter account.
 
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TheUntamedLegend

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sazzy said:
I asked this in poligaf, but seems appropriate here too:

what will come first: donald's concession speech or his first tweet since Oct 20th?
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He'll start tweeting before the polls close on the west coast and make a fool out of himself again.

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How About No

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Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals.
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Quite literally, wowee. This poor fellow
pffft ahahahhaha
 
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Souldriver

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If someone had full access to this campaign and recorded everything, this would be the greatest documentary ever in the making. I'm not even being hyperbolic. What a campaign, holy shit.


It also shows how dangerous this man would be as president (and even if he loses). The man wants to destroy his 'enemies'. It's something that Richard Branson in his open letter also pointed out. The best temperament!
 
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This sounds like somebody we want representing the country on a global scale:

His aides outlined 15 bullet points for him to deliver during an Oct. 22 speech in Gettysburg, Pa., to focus voters on a new theme of cleaning up government, even as several women came forward to accuse him of groping them just as he had described in the recording.

But Mr. Trump grew frustrated with the instructions. By the time he was done revising the proposed speech, just five of the original suggestions remained. And over the firm objections of his top advisers, he insisted on using the occasion to issue a remarkable threat: that he would sue all of the women who had gone public with the accusations.

As the advisers begged him to reconsider — it would make him seem small, they warned, and undermine a pivotal speech — Mr. Trump was adamant. There had to be a severe penalty for those who dared to attack him, he said. He could not just sit back and let these women “come at me,” he told one of them.
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I honestly don't understand how you remain on the staff of a man like that, but I hope one of them has the guts to, after he gets stomped Tuesday, make it really clear to him that he didn't lose to a rigged election, or the GOP being out to get him, or an unfair media. He lost because Donald J. Trump is bad at running for president, and refused to take any good advice, and is just a general political failure.
 
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Henkka

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For fuck's sake... I kind of went with the South Park theory that he doesn't even want to win. Meaning, he doesn't want to do the job. Why would he, when he could just spend the rest of his life in luxury?

I still hold that he doesn't want to do the job of the president. But he wants to win, just to validate himself. It's just kind of... sad.
 
Escape Goat

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jackal27 said:
He still has a solid chance to win guys. Please vote.
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It seems to be more and more unlikely but I wouldn't mark anything as certain. Theres too much at risk here.

Latinos are turning out in record numbers and have all but sewn up Nevada for Hillary (according to Jon Ralston). Hispanics are ahead of where they were in 2012 in Florida in early voting numbers.

Hispanics, in 2016, have exceeded their ENTIRE 2012 cycle by 170,000.
 
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Fudgepuppy

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How are you guys so sure she will win?

I don't disagree, but I brought this up with a co-worker who's supporting Trump, and he just scoffed at me and said "Polling has never been accurate".

Are there any hard numbers I can throw in his face?
 
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The contrasts pervade his campaign. Aides to Mr. Trump have finally wrested away the Twitter account that he used to colorfully — and often counterproductively — savage his rivals. But offline, Mr. Trump still privately muses about all of the ways he will punish his enemies after Election Day, including a threat to fund a “super PAC” with vengeance as its core mission.
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Terrifying
 
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oneofthose

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hopefully you guys are safe with what happens on tuesday wouldn't surprise me that there would be riots caused by trump supporters when he loses.
 
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MCN

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Fudgepuppy said:
How are you guys so sure she will win?

I don't disagree, but I brought this up with a co-worker who's supporting Trump, and he just scoffed at me and said "Polling has never been accurate".

Are there any hard numbers I can throw in his face?
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Wait until Tuesday, then there'll be plenty.
 
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yanipheonu

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Trump is interesting in that he doesn't only have very little self-awareness, but he actively avoids trying to analyse why he does what he does, or why he feels about things the way he does.

It's actually really depressing. I wouldn't want to live that way. Trump most definitely has stuff buried inside him that made him who he is. But he'll never face it. He may well be unable.

He's the man whose life is unexamined. Socrates said a life like that is not worth living.
 
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That this is even anywhere near a close race tells you how fucked this country is. People will vote for a completely unqualified, fascist, vengeful, literal manchild because he has an R next to his name.
 
Escape Goat

Escape Goat

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Trump really does sound like he has gross mental problems that have gone untreated because hes rich. I mean just look at the hair. Clearly hes deranged.
 
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