WELCOME BACK TO MORNING MEDIA! Continue to send help to in the form of tips, ideas, must-reads, and topical music suggestions. And maybe Trump’s campaign has realized this, given that it mounted a successful and unprecedented effort to close that gap in just two months with small donations on a scale rarely seen in presidential elections. That may be true, as long as he is controlling his message - and the media, or the Clinton campaign, isn’t. Trump has been different - and has boasted himself that the “free media” he gets from a press that is so eager to cover his every utterance is more powerful than all the ad-buying dollars in the world. Also interesting: In a typical election, the fact that Clinton until recently had more than 10 times the resources of the Trump campaign to buy media over the next 90-odd days would make most pundits essentially hand her the election right now. Maybe it’s time for the Clinton campaign to make a lot of ads featuring fellow Republicans’ criticisms of Trump - and buying time during Hannity to air them. “That means no more talking about Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, or John McCain.” “Donald Trump should focus on the Democratic nominee,” Hannity said. A cycle has begun where outrageous Trumpisms have forced prominent Republicans to criticize him - or at least some of his statements - publicly, which has in turn led Trump to spend time on the trail during the general election fighting with other Republicans. Sean Hannity last night addressed Trump directly with advice for his campaign. But more importantly, Trump’s apparent inability to leave any criticism unmet one-for-one is among the things that garner him the most negatives among his own campaign advisers and even sympathetic media. This is a pretty easy formula to repeat,” Benjy Sarlin, a political reporter for MSNBC and NBC News who is covering Trump, wrote in a tweet.Ī psychologist weighed in: “We call that ‘stimulus-bound.’” To help explain, another Twitter user posted an animated gif of a cat chasing a beam from a laser pointer.Īs POLITICO’s Hadas Gold reported back in June, Trump’s mocking of Kovaleski is among the things that garner him the most negative responses in Clinton focus groups. One fun theory I saw floating around Twitter had to do with what happens between segments of Kelly’s show: “D's run ads on Megyn Kelly, mocking disabled reporter, Trump sees them, starts talking about them.
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