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This Donald Trump interview should set off all sorts of alarm bells for the GOP
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/11/this-donald-trump-interview-should-set-off-all-sorts-of-alarm-bells-for-the-gop/I'm not that fond of Chris Cilizza. But he nails this. It's also more LBN than anything. But I get tired of people jumping on OPs to make nasty points about Hillary, even when they have zilch to do with the OP, so am posting it here.
Donald Trump is in the midst of a sort-of "congratulations to me" media tour — granting a series of interviews in which he touts how well he has done, how smart he is and, by comparison, how dumb everyone who said he couldn't win the Republican nomination is.
Which is his right. And, given how long the odds were that Trump would conquer 16 other candidates to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a valedictory lap might even be in order.
The problem for Republicans is that the lessons Trump appears to have learned from his march to the GOP nod are all the wrong ones. His interview with the Associated Press, which the wire service published on Tuesday night, is filled with cringe-worthy pronouncements that should send chills up the spines of Republican elected officials and party activists hoping to preserve their congressional majorities this fall.
The worst of Trump's assertions is that data — and the science that analyzes it to produce targeted messaging and get out the vote operations — isn't all it's cracked up to be. "I've always felt it was overrated," Trump told the AP. "Obama got the votes much more so than his data processing machine. And I think the same is true with me."
Which is his right. And, given how long the odds were that Trump would conquer 16 other candidates to become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, a valedictory lap might even be in order.
The problem for Republicans is that the lessons Trump appears to have learned from his march to the GOP nod are all the wrong ones. His interview with the Associated Press, which the wire service published on Tuesday night, is filled with cringe-worthy pronouncements that should send chills up the spines of Republican elected officials and party activists hoping to preserve their congressional majorities this fall.
The worst of Trump's assertions is that data — and the science that analyzes it to produce targeted messaging and get out the vote operations — isn't all it's cracked up to be. "I've always felt it was overrated," Trump told the AP. "Obama got the votes much more so than his data processing machine. And I think the same is true with me."
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but pity the horse. After carrying Trump and his ego off into the sunset of irrelevance, the horse would look like this:
