Politics –
Rigged:
Inside Donald Trump’s
Losing Strategy
How do you save face when losing a race? Just yell “rigged” and hope somebody believes you, that’s how!
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With only 3 weeks to go before the November 8th presidential election, Donald Trump has pulled the emergency lever and embraced the “rigged” strategy unlike no other. He’s like the guy at a track meet who sees a sprinter take off far ahead of him, then, realizing he can never catch him, starts yelling that the race was fixed and that the winning runner has cheated.
For a man who finds himself in an enormously deep deficit in the all-important electoral vote count, this strategy of yelling early that the election is rigged against him is basically all he has left. Virtually every prominent poll (including one from Fox News) is predicting a nightmare scenario on election night for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. So, how does a man like Donald Trump — who frequently brags that he ALWAYS wins — make himself out to be a winner even in the depths of defeat? Start yelling “rigged” now, then when he loses on November 8th he and his supporters can say “See…we told you so,” that’s how!
Donald Trump has already started pointing fingers at everyone but himself. He’s blamed the Clinton Campaign, he’s blamed the liberal media, and he’s even blamed the comedy TV show “Saturday Night Live” for conspiring against him. For Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, whose duty is to uphold the democracy, he is having none of it.
“Our democracy relies on confidence in election results, and the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity,” an official statement said over the weekend. Still, Trump is fixing for a fight.
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When it comes to the Trump candidacy, the fat lady hasn’t sung yet but she’s warming up and in perfect voice. Or in other words, Donald Trump is on the path of an election defeat of epic proportions. This can’t be a good look for the Trump brand and all of his businesses.
“I’m hearing in the last two weeks that his brand equity is plummeting,” said Michael D’Antonio, author of “The Truth About Trump” and “Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success.” D’Antonio added that he was “quite privy to good data” on the topic and that polls of Republicans without a college education show the demographic is “turning off to his brand.”
“They may still vote for him, but this is really doing long-term damage to his businesses,” D’Antonio said.
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For the millions of misfits who actually support Donald Trump, a loss on election day can’t be the fault of the candidate. No, it HAS to be the fault of a major conspiracy between the Hillary Clinton campaign and the liberal mainstream media. To them, Donald Trump is perfection personified and incapable of ever losing on his own.
This mentality has prompted scores of Trump supporters to prepare to head to the polls on election day as “observers.” They intend to look for cheaters, including those who change disguises and vote more than once.
One such supporter said he intends to linger at the polls just to engage in some “racial profiling” and make supposedly foreign-looking voters “a little bit nervous.”
“I’ll look for . . . well, it’s called racial profiling. Mexicans. Syrians. People who can’t speak American,” Steve Webb of Fairfield, Ohio said. “I’m going to go right up behind them. I’ll do everything legally. I want to see if they are accountable. I’m not going to do anything illegal. I’m going to make them a little bit nervous.”
Oh, the scandal of it all.
With Donald Trump already shouting early of a rigged election, this political contest has come down to not just a race of Democrats vs. Republicans, but a race of reality vs. alternate-reality. Those in TrumpWorld have convinced themselves that their reality is correct and that everyone has already rigged everything against them. That way, when the gauntlet comes down on Trump on election day, they can point fingers at everyone except “The Donald.”
With Donald Trump already shouting early of a rigged election, this political contest has come down to not just a race of Democrats vs. Republicans, but a race of reality vs. alternate-reality. Those in TrumpWorld have convinced themselves that their reality is correct and that everyone has already rigged everything against them. That way, when the gauntlet comes down on Trump on election day, they can point fingers at everyone except “The Donald.” [….] Like many, if not most, of his supporters, Trump loves to SCAPEGOAT. They…and HE..are "victims" dontcha know…smh. The guy has probably never taken responsibility for ANY of his failures in life. Easier to pretend it's someone else's fault. However, with claims of a "rigged" election, he's playing a very dangerous game right now. He would rather call into question our entire Democracy rather than admit to himself that he has FAILED to meet even the basic… Read more »