Someone will have to help me out, make me understand something that’s gone over my head.
Donald J. Trump has just brought in his third campaignĀ chairman in the past eight weeks. He’s demoted the guy who had the job the day before yesterday. The new man in charge, a fellow named Steve Bannon, comes from a rightwing website, Breitbart.com.
The Republican presidential nominee also hired longtime GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway as his new campaign manager.
The Trumpkins say “not to worry. The campaign is going great! We’re going to finish so, so strong. Donald Trump is going to win!”
Really?
Well, Trump doesn’t have any organizations established in the key battleground states. There appears to be no one handling what’s known commonly as the “ground game,” which involves recruiting volunteers for get-out-voter drives and targeting key precincts.
He’s trailing Democratic opponent Hillary Rodham Clinton in every one of those key states. In some of them the deficit is in double digits.
What am I missing?
How does a candidate go from Corey Lewandowski to Paul Manafort to Steve Bannon as campaign chairs in eight weeks and still pretend to have all his oars in the water?
Moreover, reports are surfacing about growing panic within top Republican circles. Does this assuage that panic?
IĀ do not believe it does.