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PoliGAF 2016 |OT9| The Wrath of Khan!

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In Key States, The Trump Campaign Still Lags Badly

In key swing states like Florida, the campaign has been operating a bare-bones operation, with one office in Sarasota and four staff. The RNC currently has 75 staffers on the ground in Florida, as well as 1,400 volunteers and fellows in charge of local organizing.
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In North Carolina, which Mitt Romney won in 2012 and where the most recent NBC poll showed Trump nine points behind, it’s unclear where exactly the campaign is based. The office in Fayetteville that had been used for the primary, where Trump held a rally last week, appeared to be shut down when a reporter visited it last week, and an office in Raleigh that had been used during the primary was being used by the local GOP but didn’t appear to be serving as a headquarters.
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In Pennsylvania — a state whose Rust Belt areas should be a natural fit for Trump and where the RNC has 80 paid staffers — the approach has been scattershot, and volunteers are taking matters into their own hands.

Trump’s campaign website still lists an office in Western Pennsylvania — located in Monroeville, outside of Pittsburgh. Although a sign on the door said it had re-opened Aug. 8, it was was locked in the afternoon when a BuzzFeed News reporter stopped by.
A contact listed on the office door, Tricia Cunningham (whose voicemail tells callers to “have a Trumptastic day!”), later explained that the office was no longer an official Trump campaign office. The campaign shut down its Pennsylvania offices after the primary, but she decided to take over the lease and organize her own field office, which is located on the sixth floor of a big office building with a gold exchange on the ground level and a number of doctors offices and salons spread out on different floors.
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In Southwestern Ohio, Trump supporters have again taken matters into their own hands, converting a house into an office because of the lack of organization in the area from the campaign. The house, which is decked out in Trump signs and patriotic bunting, is now operating as a satellite office for the Butler County Republican Party. An organizer at the house declined to talk to a BuzzFeed News reporter and directed questions to the state party, which did not respond to requests for comment.
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Even in New Hampshire, where Trump won handily in the primary and where his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has longstanding connections, the campaign’s presence isn’t what it could be.
“They are finally beginning to hire some people,” said former Mitt Romney and John Sununu aide Ryan Williams. “They have one office that I’m aware of. It’s a largely invisible campaign and you’re beginning to see some signs of activity but it’s the type of activity you would see at the beginning of the cycle. They are light years behind the Clinton campaign in New Hampshire. The New Hampshire Trump effort is a ragtag bunch of staffers… but they’re warm bodies and that’s better than having nobody.”
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1 office in FL with 4 staffers in FLORIDA
 
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daedalius

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PantherLotus said:
You all ever feel like Trump is the political equivalent of the millionth-of-a-penny transaction scam from The Office, where all of a sudden they had money pouring out of their ears and would be easily caught?

Like, how many times in this exact thread has one of us said, 'if a writer tried this on House of Cards / Veep they'd get tossed out and laughed at' or something similar?

I know the infamous Bill Clinton convinced Trump to run theory is so passe at this point, but you literally could not script this better if you were an evil psychopath with fingers in every single pie around the world, bent on becoming president of the US, destroying the GOP from within, reclaiming the house, senate, and SCOTUS, while also embarrassing Russia and proving once and for all that the so-called conservative base are really just rabid bigots who don't give a white-sheet shit about tax policy.

MEANWHILE: Ivanka is literally vacationing with Putin's girlfriend. llollolololol you couldn't script this if you tried.
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You'd be thrown off the show for writing something so absolutely opaque and stupid. Real life can't keep getting away with it!
 
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Roland_Gunner said:
Regarding the filing dates, remember that in 2002 Democrats were able to replace Robert Torricelli well after the filing date in a senate race. That was decided by the NJ Supreme Court so its not a slam dunk but the RNC could, in theory, petition to have someone added even after the date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_New_Jersey,_2002
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Yup. Though. I believe this would be a state by state issue and in states where ballots have already been printed/people have started to vote, courts would probably not be very amenable.
 
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Why is it that all the good shit happens while I'm at work... :(

Manafort being who we though he was.. Corey pouring the salt on.. What a day. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump will fire Manafort and bring back Corey at some point. Come on Donnie.. You talk to him every day.. Don't let those shitheels keep you from your friend. Manafort tries to control you.. Free yourself and call Corey back.
 
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Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
FloydtheFathead said:
Why is it that all the good shit happens while I'm at work... :(

Manafort being who we though he was.. Corey pouring the salt on.. What a day. There is no doubt in my mind that Trump will fire Manafort and bring back Corey at some point. Come on Donnie.. You talk to him every day.. Don't let those shitheels keep you from your friend. Manafort tries to control you.. Free yourself and call Corey back.
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If that yet to be released Manafort story is big, Trump will do it this week.
 
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In other news...Hillary's oppo-research gay has been crying hysterically into his Cosmo all weekend. However, he's been placated with two tickets to Hamilton and a backstage pass to Cher's LGBT event for Hillary in Miami.
 
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shem935

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FloydtheFathead said:
I don't know how you top $12 million dollar Russian bribe.. But I would like to see them try.


I think he will at first and then fire Manafort.
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In maybe a week or two, he just spent the last few days trying to tear down the NYT. No way he responds to this in any other way than lashing out.
 
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royalan

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adam387 said:
In other news...Hillary's oppo-research gay has been crying hysterically into his Cosmo all weekend. However, he's been placated with two tickets to Hamilton and a backstage pass to Cher's LGBT event for Hillary in Miami.
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"Bianca, do you know much dick I passed up to do all this GODDAMN research!?"
 
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Paskil

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Can't wait to see what is coming this week. I was going to say the next few days will be a shit show, but really now, what can I call what has been happening up until this point?
 
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FloydtheFathead

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adam387 said:
In other news...Hillary's oppo-research gay has been crying hysterically into his Cosmo all weekend. However, he's been placated with two tickets to Hamilton and a backstage pass to Cher's LGBT event for Hillary in Miami.
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I was wondering what happened to him.. Why doesn't he just release a tell-all book with all the skeletons?

shem935 said:
In maybe a week or two, he just spent the last few days trying to tear down the NYT. No way he responds to this in any other way than lashing out.
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That sounds about right.. There's no way that Trump will keep him with this and his poll numbers. He's going back to Corey.

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Can we just take a moment to genuflect on the fact that we're the ones that get to run Red Scare 2016!? TAKE THAT RONNIE RAYGUN PEW PEW PEW
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What a time to be alive.
 
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aspiegamer

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Imagine if Chelsea was seen in Europe vacationing with Putin's girlfriend. No, seriously, imagine it, and how huge the backlash would be. Conservative media would run with that every day for the rest of the election and use it to dog the Clintons until they're all dead and buried. For Trump? It's in fucking People, and not even a top-10 thing to talk about on any given day. I'd certainly never have known about it were it not randomly linked a few pages ago!
 
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whyamihere

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More on GA:

http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2016/08/14/hillary-clinton-is-boosting-her-campaign-staff-in-georgia/

Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign is beefing up its staffing in Georgia as polls show the race is tightening here.

The campaign told the Georgia Democratic Party late Sunday that it is sending Tracey Lewis, a Clinton deputy, to Georgia as a senior adviser to coordinate grassroots engagement activities and get out the vote efforts.

The details come from a person familiar with the conversations with Clinton’s campaign who is not authorized to speak publicly.

Georgia hasn’t turned blue since Bill Clinton’s 1992 victory in the Peach State, but Georgia Democrats hope a mix of changing demographics and Donald Trump’s divisive campaign turn it into a battleground.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll released last week showed Clinton with a slight edge over Trump in the state, and days later the Clinton campaign let it be known it was sending money to Georgia to hire more field organizers. The campaign plans to make the transfer, an initial six-figure sum to “expand organizing capacity,” on Monday.

Lewis was the chief operating officer for Michelle Nunn’s 2014 campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat and was also Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s deputy campaign manager in 2012. She helped organize the Democratic National Convention and was Clinton’s primary states director.

Trump’s campaign, which has a handful of staffers in Georgia, has scoffed at Clinton for investing in a state that Mitt Romney won by roughly 8 percentage points in 2012.

Brandon Phillips, the campaign’s state director, said last week Clinton’s investment in the Peach State amounts to “the only jobs Hillary will be creating in Georgia.”
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Man God

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Wait you mean if you start trashing the media day in and day out they'll work extra hard to dig up dirt on you? Which you've been collecting for almost 40 years of being a moron in public view?
 
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Spiritreaver

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Wow. I was going to go to bed right after the 100m and saw the article. I'm full of adrenaline now, lol.

Thanks NYT, bless you folks. I'm buying a sub.
 
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Teggy

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Supposedly it was the Trump kids that wanted Lewandowski out because he had bad ideas. Did they just disappear after that? (I guess Ivaka decided to go on vacation). Don't they have a meeting every day where the first question is, "how many offices do we have in Florida?" And the answer is always, "1". So Manafort is letting this happen? Or Trump is forbidding new offices open because he thinks Twitter is better? What is happening to all the fundraising money?

There is so much that doesn't add up about this campaign, and man is it going to be juicy when people start spilling the beans.
 
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thezerofire

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PantherLotus said:
You all ever feel like Trump is the political equivalent of the millionth-of-a-penny transaction scam from The Office, where all of a sudden they had money pouring out of their ears and would be easily caught?

Like, how many times in this exact thread has one of us said, 'if a writer tried this on House of Cards / Veep they'd get tossed out and laughed at' or something similar?

I know the infamous Bill Clinton convinced Trump to run theory is so passe at this point, but you literally could not script this better if you were an evil psychopath with fingers in every single pie around the world, bent on becoming president of the US, destroying the GOP from within, reclaiming the house, senate, and SCOTUS, while also embarrassing Russia and proving once and for all that the so-called conservative base are really just rabid bigots who don't give a white-sheet shit about tax policy.

MEANWHILE: Ivanka is literally vacationing with Putin's girlfriend. llollolololol you couldn't script this if you tried.
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Sorry but you mean Office Space
 
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Wilsongt

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adam387 said:
In other news...Hillary's oppo-research gay has been crying hysterically into his Cosmo all weekend. However, he's been placated with two tickets to Hamilton and a backstage pass to Cher's LGBT event for Hillary in Miami.
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I wonder what it feels like to be excited by gay things.
 
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RustyNails

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Teggy said:
Manafort's got a little distraction

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/15/us/politics/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?_r=0
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Anti-corruption officials there say the payments earmarked for Mr. Manafort, previously unreported, are a focus of their investigation, though they have yet to determine if he actually received the cash.
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Come on NYT. That's the entire point of a cash payment. He could be hiding all of it under his bed, or disbursed it into his various offshore accounts, or laundered it through his businesses. There is no way to determine if he received it!
 
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Oh god, this is so beautiful. People are tweeting and wondering if Manafort answers to Trump or Putin.

Hillary, just enjoy this. This is your reward for 30 years of pure bullshit. And Nov 8, you get the big prize.

Also, watching Conservatives on Twitter trying to understand geopolitics is hilarious.

Also, something I never thought I'd hear from a Republican: "Russia doesn't matter anymore."
 
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