Trump's "red wave" could sink GOP

[Norman]

'The president's contempt for mainstream polling and the media may come back to haunt him in November. Several top Republican operatives working on the midterm elections told me Trump's fanciful "red wave" predictions could depress Republican turnout and, ironically, serve to make any blue wave even bigger.

What we're hearing: One of those strategists told me he's detecting something interesting — and concerning — from focus groups of Trump voters. "You have Trump-MAGA loyalists, and their friends on Fox, who have reached a point of not believing polls and media people telling them things are going wrong, that I believe is actually causing the Republicans problems," the strategist told me, granted anonymity in order to be candid.

• "We've seen it in focus groups, with Republican base voters, where you'll come up with a hypothetical that the Democrats win, and people are like, 'That's not going to happen, that's stupid.' ... They're like, 'Oh, to hell with this crap, we were told Trump wasn't going to win. It's bullshit.'"
• "I would rather Sean Hannity get on TV every night and go, 'Oh my God, Nancy Pelosi could be Speaker and they're going to impeach Trump. You better get out to vote.'"

Between the lines: Questionable outlier polls like Rasmussen that favor the president have lulled and reassured Trump’s base. The president tweets out the polls, his media mouthpieces echo them, and his voters feel pacified — and, several top strategists I've interviewed fear, less motivated to show up in November.

• Trump isn't helping. The president is flatly denying what most polls indicate — saying he sees not a blue wave in November, but a giant "red wave."
• Republican strategists want the base to panic so they'll show up to vote. But instead, Trump is breeding complacency.'

Trump's "red wave" could sink GOP

Makes sense.

There will be a blue drought.

 

[francoHFW]

007, you are not a Constitutional anything. You are a kisser of Putin's ass. You claim to be a Christian, and you support the incarceration of little children. Christ would damn you for that. He did not say "Make the little children suffer". So you are an American born white male. That is not any doing of yours. USAF vet? I volunteered for the USAF in time to be in when we stopped those Soviet ships off of Cuba. Disabled? Sorry about that. I am lucky enough to be 74 and still working at a very high paying job. American First Patriot? Like hell. America First was the slogan of the Bund, a Fascist movement in the US that wanted to keep us out of the Second World War so that Germany could win. Now that is the slogan of the ass kissers of Putin that would turn this nation into a Fascist state with Trump as the leader. No, you are not a Patriot in any sense of the word. You are a traitor to this nation.

You sound either really high or drunk. I wouldn't be surprised at all if your breath smelled like shit, because I've never read a bigger load of shit than that on here in a long, long time.

But I'll play... here we go... I'll play your game... YOU are a communist, you hate America, your head is buried so far up obama's ass you can't breath. You hate all Christians because you think you're smarter than any God. You hate Christians because they believe something different than you, so in your fascist, authoritarian world of the democrat party, like the NAZI's of WWII, anyone you disagree with you want to either shut up or kill. You want no borders and to flood America with third world garbage and then support all those criminals with other's people's money hoping they'll vote for you democrat trash and keep you in power. You hate law and order, you hate patriotism, you hate the military and you hate anyone that disagrees with you. You are a traitor to everything American and the lowest form of feces this nation has ever had the misfortune of having to endure. You are the true fascists of the world and you silence anyone with a differing opinion on your social media, and when all else fails, you trash resort to corruption the likes of which we have never seen before. You people reek to high heaven of hypocrisy, double standards, fascism, totalitarianism and violence. You're all losers, freaks, perverts, criminals, pot heads and gutter trash.

Thankfully you are the MINORITY.

Better get some fresh air and change the channel you sound like you're one of the 26% insane we have in this country I think they're all Republican brainwashed functional morons. There's basically no one in the world who agrees with you people...

 

[jillian]

Trump is as delusional as he is dishonest.

If Trump is delusional, then by definition he has false beliefs. The only possible explanation for this is that he has received false intelligence briefings from his staff. Let us hope not!

He has not received false intelligence. He’s just a sociopath

 

[eagle1462010]

Americans know media is biased now. Cats out of the bag. Poor poor pitiful Dems

 

[basquebromance]

there is no blue wave, there is no red wave, there is the American wave!

 

[karpenter]

Trump's "red wave" could sink GOP

Makes sense.

We'll See How Much Sense
An AXIOS Cut & Paste Op-Ed
With Unnamed Operative 'Sources' Makes In November

With Democrat Numbers Tanking
From A 16pt Lead
To A Margin-Of-Error Dead Heat

Sorry, Blue Boys
No House, No Senate
Not With Bernie, Miss Hyphenated
Pelosi, Waters, et-al
All Over Everyone's News Wire

 

[Flopper]

Trump is as delusional as he is dishonest.

If Trump is delusional, then by definition he has false beliefs. The only possible explanation for this is that he has received false intelligence briefings from his staff. Let us hope not!

Good Grief. Trump is a contrarian. Say the sky is blue and he'll say it could be green. Trump does not respect anyone's opinion that doesn't match his own. We have been damn lucky so far. He has never had any respect for the intelligence organizations because he doesn't believe anyone understands the situation better than he does. Trump does not take advice. He listens and makes gut decision base on his limited experience.