They succeeded in changing the message(s)

[Iwasthere]

Now the media needs to go right back to where it left off, taxes, tapes, soldier bountys, etc,.. Ignore his BS distractions. I know. I'm dreaming. They gotta do their normalizing, keep it a horse race, $$$

[LizBeth]

1. The message you are talking about did not serve Trump well at all.

[Silent3]

2. This didn't normalize things at all! CNN: "We're in the grips of a madman"

Message change, perhaps. Desirable outcome for Trump? Hardly.

[Loki Liesmith]

3. lol wut

They changed the message to one that make them look worse?

[Arthur_Frain]

4. Beg to differ, respectfully.

For about the last two weeks it’s become apparent to me that Pandora’s box is going to close when it’s damned good and ready to. I normally lament that Teflon don manages to get away Scott free again, but they’ve completely lost control of the messaging at this point.

He’s flailing. This is all happening at the worst possible time for him, and we closed the barn door on normal way back.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. He's flailing...it is the best description I've heard of the nut job in the WH. Thanks!

[Arthur_Frain]

6. Rhymes with "failing".

And alliteration also!

[Happy Hoosier]

7. I'll disagree.

COVID is an AWFUL issue for Trump. As lind as we’re talking about COVID, he’s losing. Bigly.

He was doing everything he could to change the subject from COVID. Now... good luck with that!

[Drunken Irishman]

8. You do realize none of those topics had any impact on his polling, right?

Like literally zero impact. The soldier bounty story has been known for a couple months and didn't impact his approval. The taxes likely wouldn't have, either.

The only thing that has hurt Trump's approval has been the talk about COVID + race relations. Those are the only two stories that have penetrated his support and where Biden has surged in the polls.

[EarlG]

9. Um, the president has contracted a deadly virus

His administration is imploding, and the public broadly despises his response to recent events. Not sure that's a distraction.

There's only a month to go until the election. This does not look good for him.

If he survives, the tax issue is still going to be there to put him in jail after the American public boots him out of office.

[Demsrule86]

16. +10000

That's it.

[Iwasthere]

10. I simply feel they could multi task

At least the before list out there occasionally.

[Iwasthere]

11. I simply feel they could multi task

At least the before list out there occasionally.

[abqtommy]

12. It's far too late to try to normalize tRUMP or the U.S. MSM.

[ismnotwasm]

13. What the hell????

[Quixote1818]

14. He is digging his own grave. Allow it to continue. nt

[Demsrule86]

15. Covid is one of his worst issues...he was not helped by this.

[Brother Buzz]

17. I'm with the other short-fingered vulgarian on this

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

[BannonsLiver]

18. Fuck that

It’s gonna be virus virus virus until Election Day. Just what Dump didn’t want.