Trump wants MAGA rallies. Many Republicans in swing races want him to stay away. Both may get their wish.
Donald Trump has promised to campaign in the 35 most competitive races before Election Day. But his midterm blitz opens this week in friendly territory — Texas, Oklahoma and Alabama — and that may be by design.
Trump visiting a swing district would “be a net negative for the candidate there,” said a White House official, granted anonymity to discuss political strategy candidly. “The closer the race, the more the [Republican candidate] is trying to break from President Trump.”
Others inside and around the White House describe the same logic: keep Trump away from contested races, where moderate voters who are unenthusiastic about him cast the decisive ballots.
Worried it means he feels certain that whatever shady election biz he’s planning will work
Nope.
It’s what I just explained it is.
Powerful people who spend their lives surrounded by “yes men” expect to be treated like that 24/7.
They’re not gonna take questions from voters of the opposite party and try to gain votes like progressives do. They’ll go to where everyone loves them and be adored but never gain a single vote.
Everyone going to a rally is already voting for that candidate.
It’s a complete waste of resources due to hubris, that’s it.
I admire your certitude, and I hope you’re right.
It’s not just a politician thing…
It’s why billionaires always get weird, why CEOs are selfish assholes, why a small business owner usually ends up acting like a dictator, or even teachers punishing students for being right. Or why celebrities do horrible shit and act surprised people don’t like it and call everyone haters…
Even why chat bot addicts withdrawal to the chatbot and stop talking to real humans.
Like, aging does play a factor due to how an aging brain deals with confusion, but this is perfectly normal human behavior. If someone stops getting negative feedback, when they get anything other than praise it feels like insults, and the person starts avoiding anyone that might do anything other than unadulterated praise.
Hillary didn’t realize what she was doing and neither does trump. He might think what you said as a rationalition, but that’s all it it. Just like Hillary’s “I don’t need to campaign outside of Blue states” was something she almost certainly believed at the time.
But was clearly wrong.
Not getting any negative feedback will fuck up any human brain. When’s the last time you think trump took negative feedback without coming up with an excuse why the person who said it isn’t just a hater?
Well, he’s a narcissist. It might have never happened since he was a child.
Came here to say this. And probably all of it was coming from relatives - mother/father, siblings. I’m sure he could write all that off as their failings, not his.
I still would not be at all surprised to learn, sometime down the road, that all the advice Hillary was getting was actually correct, and that things were rigged in donnie’s favor.
And that all the chattering classes reacting with “golly gee, we had no idea just how popular donnie really is/was, we have to move even further to the right and bend over backwards to not show the least bit of ‘liberal bias’ (meaning, reporting the facts)” and “Hillary really bungled this” and “we need to find a lot of maga-whisperers to parachute into flyover country to learn what the average American is really thinking”, etc. were not at all the correct takes.