Billionaire Queens Rich Kid New Voice
for the Silent Majority
Over the years, I worked on 32 political campaigns ranging
from local, state, and federal including executive and legislative
branches. While I know it may upset the
diehard political activists among my readers, I worked for Democrats,
Republicans, and Independents. You see,
I never believed in the litmus test theory where you had to pledge blind faith
and unwavering loyalty to a philosophical political dogma.
I held fast to the old fashion belief, vote for the person
who will do the most good for the people.
Once elected, you serve all the people not just those who voted for
you. In today's partisan world serving a
higher purpose does not work.
Perhaps the hardest point of a campaign is the end when you
finally know definitively that you won or lost.
Only then does reality set in. If
you were like me then sleep deprivation, horrible eating habits, measuring
coffee intake by the pots consumed, stress, expecting the unexpected, and
planning for every contingency imaginable and unimaginable, consumed you.
Add to that the mountain of management difficulties from a
staff trying to blend professional staff with volunteers, horrendous egos with
the darkest of fears of losing, the never-ending pressure to raise more and
more money, and assigning critical tasks to thousands of volunteers, and you
begin to see the problem.
Of course, that is just the beginning. Controlling what the staff says to
contributors, politicians, and the dreaded media, what the candidate says to
the same groups, and what the spouse of the candidate says compounds the
complexity tenfold.
Hold on folks, because there is more. You can take everything I said and multiply
it times two, because there is a primary and then a general election. That is the picture when you plan a
campaign. However, the unexpected still
looms large over both campaigns.
Take the current campaign for president. Donald Trump spent most of the last year
defying the experts. Like him or not,
what he did was historic.
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There was:
1. John
Kasich, Governor
2. Ted
Cruz, Senator
3. Marco
Rubio, Senator
4. Ben
Carson, Surgeon
5. Jeb
Bush, Governor
6. Jim
Gilmore, Governor
7. Chris
Christie, Governor
8. Carly
Fiorina, Senate candidate and CEO
9. Rick
Santorum, Senator
10. Rand Paul,
Senator
11. Mike
Hukabee, Governor
12. George
Pataki, Governor
13. Lindsey
Graham, Senator
14. Bobby
Jindal, Governor
15. Scott
Walker, Governor
16. Rick Perry,
Governor
17. Donald
Trump, CEO
Competition was fierce with nine governors, five senators,
one senate candidate, and two with no political experience. It was the largest primary field in the
history of American politics and some say the best field of experienced
candidates ever to run in a primary.
The last primary elections are June 7 when California ,
New Jersey , Montana ,
New Mexico , and South Dakota vote. As of yesterday, May 3, there were just three
survivors, a senator, governor, and CEO with no political experience.
By this afternoon, the senator and governor withdrew from
the race with no chance to catch the last one standing, Donald Trump. In the end, it was Trump, the most
inexperienced person in the massive field, who connected with the voters and
taught the politicians a lot about politics.
The only billionaire in presidential history ran against the
establishment and obliterated the field, leaving the political pundits, the
right wing think tanks, the news media, the corporate owners of politicians,
even the Democrats stunned.
July 18-21 the Republican National convention will take
place in Cleveland , Ohio
Well the people had a different idea and gave Trump such a
crushing victory last Tuesday in the Indiana
primary the last of the competition faded away.
The rich kid from Queens ,
New York
The victory came though Trump spent less money than any
other major opponent did, and in spite of his opponents running nearly 60,000
attack ads against him. Perhaps this
explains why Trump seemed so subdued when he gave his victory speech. The victory came way before it was expected.
It is going to be a fascinating general election and once
again, you can expect the media and political experts to continue to be wrong
because the American public is sick and tired of the empty promises of
politicians and the establishment, including the Republican, Democratic, and
media.
After defeating a Bush and ending a family political legacy
in the primary, Trump now faces a Clinton
and another family political legacy in the general election with Hillary
Clinton.
A national poll released on the eve of Tuesday’s pivotal
Trump’s 41 percent to 39 percent edge marked the first time he has led the race since October.
As recently as March,
“I will defeat Crooked Hillary Clinton on 11/8/2016,” Trump triumphantly tweeted on Monday, shortly after the poll’s release.
But the national telephone survey of likely voters also showed that 15 percent of respondents would rather cast their ballots for anyone but the two front-runners.
The tycoon has the support of 73 percent of Republicans, while 77 percent of Democrats back the former first lady.
Trump picked off 15 percent of Democrats, while 8 percent of GOP voters prefer
The former “Apprentice” TV star leads 48 percent to 35 percent among men, while
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Trump leads 37 percent to 31 percent, with 23 percent backing another candidate.
The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted on April 27 and 28 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 points.
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