TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS KNOWS HE’S SCREWING UP

…Donald Trump in his normal sneer

 

Would Mike Pence have a better chance than Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton?

 

We all know how Donald Trump continually tells us how he won the primaries with a record number of Republican votes, and that is a true statement.  But now Trump is in a general election, and it’s one candidate versus one candidate, not splitting the vote between 15 or 16 candidates as it was in the GOP primaries.

 

What you aren’t told by Mr. Trump is that only 9% of the American voting public actually voted for nominating both Trump and Clinton.

This is why the general election is so different from the primaries, and it’s something that the amateur candidate Trump doesn’t seem to understand.

 

I have to say that I feel so sorry for those Americans that have been supporting “The Donald”.  That is because there are so many things he has promised that are either impossible or highly unlikely to come to fruition.

 

Yes, I understand the Trump supporter that is a working class white man that after his plant shut down in 2005, and the only job he could find was working 20 hours a week at Home Depot for $8.50 an hour.  This is far less than the $18 per hour this supporter earned as a tool-and-die maker. 

 

But the chance of this supporter of Trump getting one of the jobs that Trump says he will be bringing back is probably less than the 9% that nominated Trump & Clinton.  That’s because Donald Trump has not even offered an explanation as to how, when and what kind of jobs he will be able to bring back.  Nor how long this challenge would actually take, even if he offered up a real plan.

 

All of these people are in for some real serious let-downs and disappointments.

 

And some of the people I’m referring to are those as follows:

>>>Mr. Frank Steele, a Vietnam veteran in North Carolina who voted for Trump in the primary because the businessman didn’t talk down to the working class workers.

 

>>>Mr. Jeff Hasler, 59, who is a retired Army soldier that attended a Trump rally in Fayetteville, N.C.

 

>>>Mr. John Bash, a former machinist from Ohio who loves Trump’s anti-free-trade views and who attended a rally last week for Trump’s running-mate Mike Pence.

 

>>>The 69-year-old Linda Barnhill who has been a Trump supporter since the day he announced.  A big fan of ideas such as the Mexican border wall.

 

>>>And her 19-year-old granddaughter. Reagan Barnhill, a chemical engineering student at North Carolina State University who was named for the late president.

 

>>>The grandmother supporter who was a retired elementary school teacher

 

>>>The woman supporter that said she has seen her community turn into “a ghost town” as the area paper mill scaled back its operations and a number of textile mills moved overseas.

 

>>>And finally, the younger woman convinced that Trump can win, but whose roommates begs her not to wear her Trump hat on campus for fear that she might get hurt by anti-Trump students

 

What many of these people are having problems with are not that they question Trump as they should be doing to understand how he would be able do all that he promises.

 

Their problem is that even though they are supporters, they also do realize all the dumb mistakes that Trump continues to commit.

 

Like Frank Steele, the Vietnam Vet, whose disappointment was most acute when Trump attacked the family of the fallen US soldier after the father, Khizr Khan, had spoken at the Democratic National Convention.  “That’s Trump’s personality. He was wrong. You don’t bad-mouth somebody that’s lost a son in war.”

 

Or Jeff Haslert, “You can tell he’s an amateur politician,” said Hasler, shaking his head back and forth as the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” blared over the loudspeakers.

 

Then there’s John Bash, “I just wish he would quit it. I know the Democrats are baiting him. They are baiting him bad and it’s getting him to say those things.”

 

Or the grandmother who was dressed in a pink “Trump” T-shirt decorated with campaign buttons that said “I love everything — I like the wall, I love the wall, I like the tax cuts, I like the trade stuff that he’s going to do,”

 

Or finally, the younger woman who says, “Sometimes he just speaks when he should keep his mouth shut.”

 

These supporters are aware of all of his mistakes, and it just makes them sick inside, hoping he will pivot and become a real candidate.

 

Steele keeps waiting for Trump to surround himself with the right staff and to take his campaign seriously — which would mean fewer controversial comments.

 

“Hopefully his children will tell him: ‘Dad, you’ve got to stop this stuff. It’s just not right,’” Steele said. “We’ve got so many problems in this country. We’ve got some people dedicated to its destruction.”

 

Probably the biggest issue against Trump from his supporters was when he questioned the motives of Mr. Khan, the Muslim lawyer whose son was killed in Iraq.  He was the father that spoke so passionately at the Democratic convention.  And that was when the father asked if Trump had even read the US Constitution and then offered his pocket version to Trump

 

To recover from that, Trump then foolishly accepted a Purple Heart medal from a veteran at a rally in Virginia, where he marveled that receiving it this way was a “much easier” way to earn a Purple Heart.  This just sparked another round of outrage from both his fans and his critics.

 

Then that same week, Trump claimed to have watched video footage that the Iranian government recorded of the United States delivering millions of dollars, which he later admitted he had not seen. He then initially refused to endorse House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his primary, and Senator John McCain in Arizona, while criticizing a number of other prominent Republicans.

 

The media then went wild when at his Wilmington, Delware appearance, Trump menacingly said that “Second Amendment people” could take action if Clinton appointed US Supreme Court judges they disliked, as he falsely accused President Obama and Hillary of founding the Islamic State (ISIS).  He then followed with a joke about kicking a baby out of his rally.

 

Instead of seeing a bounce in the polls following these high-profile screw-ups, as Trump had often experienced during the primaries, his polls continued falling.  Again, just another difference between a primary and a general election. (Gotta remember, this is about a lot more than 9% of the voting public.)

 

Trump’s rebound options are majorly limited, as his campaign infrastructure and fundraising operation are far less than what the Clinton campaign is offering.

 

On the political shows on CNN, MSNBC, FOX and even the New York Times and the conservative Wall Street Journal, plus across the Internet, many pundits and analysts are saying that if Trump doesn’t get his act together, the RNC should drop him and have Mike Pence take the lead role.

 

Right now, I think Mike Pence would have a better chance than Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton.

 

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