Donald Trump’s campaign is increasingly falling into disarray as the Manhattan billionaire braces for a loss in Wisconsin that could set him on course for an uncertain convention floor fight for the Republican presidential nomination.
Since March, the campaign has been laying off field staff en masse around the country and has dismantled much of what existed of its organizations in general-election battlegrounds, including Florida and Ohio.
Last month, the campaign laid off the leader of its data team, Matt Braynard, who did not train a successor. It elevated his No. 2, a data engineer with little prior high-level political strategy experience, and also shifted some of his team’s duties to a 2015 college graduate whose last job was an internship with the consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive. Some of the campaign’s data remains inaccessible.
As the final stretch of this hard fought GOP primary bogs down into a delegate fight among party insiders and operatives that likely won’t be decided until the July convention in Cleveland, Trump’s singular star power appears to be no longer enough—and his campaign’s months-long lack of attention to other fundamentals is emerging as a hindrance to his ability to clinch the nomination outright.
“Presidential campaigns are a team sport, and he doesn’t have that mentality,” one high-level GOP operative said. “That's why they're missing a lot of these opportunities that are passing them by. [Trump] might be a great quarterback, but every quarterback still needs a strong offensive line.”
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>>70019055
>Says increasingly nervous man
looks like i'm a cruz missile now
I am now a #BoogerMissile
>>70019055
It absolutely is a problem, and to insist otherwise is foolish. Trump needs to get his shit together if he wants to win.
>INCREASINGLY
>NERVOUS
ALSO
>Read more
HAHAHAHHAH
t. increasingly nervous mexican
>>70019160
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>>70019279
>>70019504
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>>70019699
>hur durr let's ignore every problem and maybe it will go away
>>70019822
>He doesnt know that a ground campaign is only to secure the nomination, after the nomination is secured you need to alter your strategy
Look at what campaign strategists he has hired in the past two weeks and reassess what you think.
>>70019822
>Wisconsin
>Key battleground state
>Calling a lose before the vote is even counted with polling all over the place in an open primary state
INCREASINGLY
NERVOUS
MAN
>>70019055
Time to re-hire Roger Stone
>>70019822
Seriously, it's just the same pattern repeating itself.
> trump dips in polls
> media declares trump campaign dead
> three weeks later
> trump ahead in polls
Rinse and repeat. Why should we expect it to be any different this time?
>>70019055
>2 week gap between primaries where literally nothing has fucking happened
>several controversies, sure, but this is absolutely nothing new to trump's campaign
>making a huge deal over a state that's relatively unimportant in the grand scheme of things
>playing up a single poll that put cruz +10 points ahead
The way the media is trying to push this "TRUMP IS CRASHING!!!! THIS IS HIS TOUGHEST WEEK YET!!!" narrative is fucking ridiculous.
>>70019055
>politico
>?
>>70019055
cool post OP
but what if this is just another dishonest and biased media report like about 90% of similar reports?
What will you do when the false hope provided of a trump loss turns out to be not as you hoped?
Life will go on regardless, but you should maybe reconsider what you choose to base your beliefs on
>>70019822
What "problems"? Every fucking time I hear "this is Trump's toughest week yet!!! He's been marred in controversy after controversy...", I never hear how this has /actually/ affected him. There doesn't seem to have been any discernible changes in the polling data in Wisconsin, and although his national polling data went down ever so slightly, it's nothing compared to some of the dips he's had in the past. In what concrete way has this been his "toughest week"?
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>>70019055
>that fatass in the background with the trump wall t-shirt
why are people over the weight of 125 allowed to exist?
>>70020689
>There doesn't seem to have been any discernible changes in the polling data in Wisconsin
Wrong. ARG had Trump up 10, Emerson has Cruz up 5. Both sample R and Ind but ARG has R Ind and D
>and although his national polling data went down ever so slightly
Wrong. According to rolling Reuters polling, Trump is having a decent surge
