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1. That& #39;s bc that "debate" performance from Trump was literally the worst thing ever seen in American politics- & that& #39;s after 5 yrs of seeing Donald Trump do his thing.
He was advised against the "strategy" & spent the whole next day convinced he& #39;d killed it
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He was advised against the "strategy" & spent the whole next day convinced he& #39;d killed it
In my 2016 book https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNews/status/1312739803838984192">https://twitter.com/JoshNBCNe...
2. I didn& #39;t do what so many others did in their books and suddenly apply magic filters to the two 2016 campaigns. In my chapter, A Tale of Two Campaigns, in the & #39;16 cycle as in now, I recounted how shitty Trump& #39;s 2016 campaign was, from beginning to end and on every single metric
3. Especially contrasted w HRC& #39;s campaign. It wasn& #39;t until Trump& #39;s freak accident win that all the Clinton hit books had to be quickly revised to recount what a shitty campaign she ran- they were all set to be print about how much better the Clinton campaign was than the Trump
4. campaign- it wasn& #39;t even close. Indeed, as bad as this year& #39;s iteration is, the 2016 version was 1000% worse so keep that in mind every time one of these people who just knew the Clinton team was running a shitty campaign comes on the TV... I think I might be one of the few
5. people that criticized their strategy in real-time- and that was in relation to the decision to go all-in on the conversion of Rs and even I was wooed by the rise of Never Trump somewhat. Donald Trump is the shittiest candidate in the history of presidential politics and his
6. instincts are shit- but he had two things work out well for him- timing, running into a complacent left-side of the spectrum- and the RNC& #39;s turnout operation bc they& #39;re the ones that ran the real campaign for him. He has that now too, and a cult-like following in terms of
7. what right-wing media has done to the GOP electorate so he is still competitive to win if Ds don& #39;t match the turnout (they will) and get the votes counted (this is the real fight).
