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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhite House insiders suggest that Kellyanne Conway and Steve Mnuchin are not long for this West Wing
THERES GOING TO BE A LOT OF DEPARTURES: FEARING A HOUSE WIPEOUT, TRUMP THROWS HAIL MARYS AS AIDES BRACE FOR STAFF CHANGESWhite House insiders suggest that Kellyanne Conway and Steve Mnuchin are not long for this West Wing.
BY GABRIEL SHERMAN
OCTOBER 31, 2018 4:16 PM
n the days after the Senate confirmed Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, a wave of optimism washed over Donald Trumps West Wing. White House aides were buoyed by internal polling conducted by former Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio indicating that Republicans could conceivably hold both the Senate and the House in the forthcoming midterm elections, according to a person briefed on the data. Trumps mood was great, a former West Wing official who spoke with him told me.
But as next Tuesdays voting approaches, the mood inside the West Wing has darkened. The arrest of Trump supporter Cesar Sayoc for allegedly sending more than a dozen pipe bombs to the presidents political enemies, in addition to a horrific mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue by an avowed white nationalist, completely upended the dynamic. As The New York Timess Peter Baker recently noted, Trump has been frustrated by his own inability to control the news cycle. Meanwhile, Fabrizio has leveled with the presidents advisers that Democrats will take the House, the source briefed on the polling told me. Trump has responded to this worsening political environment with extreme frustration. He was really upset the momentum had been killed by the pipe bombs, one Republican close to the White House told me. Another former White House official in touch with colleagues said that Trumps mood has been grim. The president is self-destructing, the official said.
To forestall electoral disaster on Tuesday, advisers have been debating strategies for regaining momentum. One idea being discussed, according to a Republican briefed on the conversation, would be for Trump to deliver a prime-time Oval Office address on the topic of unity. Trump, however, shot down the notion and instead is lurching in the other direction: turning out his die-hard base with hard-core anti-media and anti-immigration rhetoric. The base messaging strategy is being driven by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Bill Shine and outside advisers Corey Lewandowski and Dave Bossie, a person familiar with the situation told me. Bossie and Lewandowski did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump has followed their advice by ramping up his enemy of the people-style attacks on the media, and whipping up right-wing hysteria about the migrant caravan slowly wending its way through Mexico to the U.S. border. Thats why he sent [more than] 5,000 troops down there. Its obviously political, an outside adviser said. This week, Trump told Axioss Jonathan Swan that hes considering ending birthright citizenship by executive order, a dubious maneuver that legal experts from both partiesincluding Kellyanne Conways own husband, George Conwayhave reiterated would be rendered unconstitutional. All of this feels like Hail Mary passesthrow red meat to drive turnout, a former West Wing official said. In a way, the Kavanaugh bump peaked too early.
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White House insiders suggest that Kellyanne Conway and Steve Mnuchin are not long for this West Wing (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2018
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)1. P.S.....
None of ya's are if we win next week. Going to clean house and restore America. One day, one step at a time.
rurallib
(62,403 posts)2. Kellyanne and George will have more time to spend together then
maybe he can convince her what a POS Trump is -
or maybe they get divorced?
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,943 posts)3. Check - Fort Knox - before they go!!!
keithbvadu2
(36,724 posts)4. Who will buy Kellyanne's services next?
Was/is it irony when Kellyanne prostituted herself for money for Cruz or when she prostitutes herself for money for Trump?
https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2016/08/19/here-s-how-trump-s-new-campaign-manager-attacked-him-cable-news-pundit/212524
Heres How Trumps New Campaign Manager Attacked Him As A Cable News Pundit
EffieBlack
(14,249 posts)5. Mnuchin's not in the West Wing
He's at Treasury