- It’s official. The unthinkable, according to the status quo earlier in the campaign, Donald Trump is the Republican Nominee
- Although many wrote him off as a candidate, I never did; I always said he was being underestimated
- I believed his message would resonate given how horrible the economy actually is and what is really happening beneath the headlines
- Everybody was proclaiming recovery and that we’re on the right track and I knew that that wasn’t the case
- I knew there would be a lot of dissatisfaction among the electorate on both sides of the aisle
- Even after Donald Trump locked up the Republican nomination, everybody was still writing him off
- The idea was, “He’s going to lose in a landslide”
- Republican establishment said, “Abandon ship!”, distancing themselves from Trump to maintain the House and the Senate, writing off the White House
- Maybe run against Hillary in 4 years
- That was the general consensus
- Again, I kept saying the the media and the political establishment on both sides were underestimating Donald Trump and the potential appeal of a Trump presidency
- I think that the speech he gave at the convention really proves that point
- I thought his speech was brilliant.
- When I say brilliant, I don’t necessarily agree with everything he said; I clearly don’t
- I’m talking about the political perspective
- Was this an effective speech to set the tone of the campaign?
- In that respect, I think he hit the ball out of the park
- The most clever thing about his speech is he didn’t go after the Republicans
- He went after the Democrats
- He went after their base; their core constituency
- He is bringing the fight to their turf
- He went for the women, he went for the minorities
- Not just African Americans and Latinos, but the LGBTQ and the blue collar workers
- Donald Trump did not go after the entrepreneur
- He didn’t promise to get government off your back and free up the businessman from red tape
- That’s a typical Republican acceptance speech
- He said, “I’m going to be the champion of the little guy.”
- The downtrodden, the forgotten voter
- “I’m your guy! The system has been rigged against you and because I have been part of the problem, I’m the only one who can deliver the solution”
- I think this is a very powerful strategy
- Because the Democrats have been taking their constituency for granted
- What Donald Trump says is, “Why are you blindly supporting the Democratic nominee?”
- What have they done for you? Nothing.
- He will bring up the shocking statistics that have been getting worse under 7 years of Barack Obama
- The horrible unemployment in the African American community
- The inner city crime
- The government dependency. The despair.
- Why are African Americans handing their votes to a Democrat?
- The Democrats have let them down and failed them
- Donald Trump will say, “I won’t do that. Trust me.”
- “I will deliver on the broken promises of generations of Democrats.”
- What about women?
- Instead of denying the gender gap, he just accepted it.
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