{"id":43655,"date":"2020-07-18T02:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T02:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43655"},"modified":"2020-07-19T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T16:08:52","slug":"shakeupstability-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43655","title":{"rendered":"Shakeup = stability? Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-43656\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/stepien.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What in the name of counter-intuitiveness am I missing?<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump keeps insisting that his campaign is rockin&#8217; and rollin&#8217; along. That his team is well-oiled, well-groomed and well-positioned to guide Trump to a re-election victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/07\/16\/trumps-campaign-manager-stepien-emotional-meeting-366277\">Why, then, if Trump&#8217;s command structure<\/a> is so awesome does he change the man who runs it? He replaced campaign manager Brad Parscale with Bill Stepien.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, it must be that Trump is trailing former Vice President Joe Biden &#8212; the presumptive Democratic nominee &#8212; by double digits. Or it was that disastrous Tulsa, Okla., rally that was supposed to overfill the arena, but drew a crowd that comprised about one-third of the arena&#8217;s capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Where I come from, those things tell me that the campaign is in serious trouble. Hence, Donald Trump shook it up.<\/p>\n<p>Time will tell, I suppose, whether this latest rumbling at the top of the Trump campaign team rights the ship. I am highly skeptical. I mean, the team has a boss who&#8217;s out of control.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23POTUS%20%232020election&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What in the name of counter-intuitiveness am I missing? Donald John Trump keeps insisting that his campaign is rockin&#8217; and rollin&#8217; along. That his team is well-oiled, well-groomed and well-positioned to guide Trump to a re-election victory. Why, then, if Trump&#8217;s command structure is so awesome does he change the man who runs it? He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43655\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shakeup = stability? Seriously?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[7225,1424,7911],"class_list":["post-43655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-2020-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump-re-election-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43674,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43655\/revisions\/43674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}