The "October Surprise" of the 2016 campaign was close: a video from an "Access Hollywood" interview with Billy Bush came out on October 7, 2016, in which Trump made comments about what it was like to be a star in which he said that women fell all over him and "You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything." Of course, Trump never said he did this, only that such was the situation with stars.
The 2016 October Surprise came out too early to affect the election other than, as pollster Richard Baris speculates, costing Trump two states-New Hampshire and Minnesota.
In our 2017 book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, Joel Pollak and I speculated that this October Surprise was really intended for release in the last week, but that the campaign of Hillary Clinton was spooked by a series of internal polls-one of which I saw as released by the Trump camp-that showed her slipping dangerously in even safe states such as Oregon and Rhode Island.
Before the air could even go out of the balloon, the Democrats, thanks to a low-level Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, launched an impeachment effort based on a Trump phone call with the Ukraine.
By the way, do you know how meaningless and impotent impeachment was? The Democrats don't even refer to it and almost never even put the words "The impeached" before "President Trump" when they talk about him publicly.
Serious criminal prosecution of the Deep State would, if possible, energize Trump voters even more.
The amazing thing is, Trump doesn't need any of them to win and even win big.
The 2016 October Surprise came out too early to affect the election other than, as pollster Richard Baris speculates, costing Trump two states-New Hampshire and Minnesota.
In our 2017 book, How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, Joel Pollak and I speculated that this October Surprise was really intended for release in the last week, but that the campaign of Hillary Clinton was spooked by a series of internal polls-one of which I saw as released by the Trump camp-that showed her slipping dangerously in even safe states such as Oregon and Rhode Island.
Before the air could even go out of the balloon, the Democrats, thanks to a low-level Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman, launched an impeachment effort based on a Trump phone call with the Ukraine.
By the way, do you know how meaningless and impotent impeachment was? The Democrats don't even refer to it and almost never even put the words "The impeached" before "President Trump" when they talk about him publicly.
Serious criminal prosecution of the Deep State would, if possible, energize Trump voters even more.
The amazing thing is, Trump doesn't need any of them to win and even win big.
No comments:
Post a Comment