Posted on 04/22/2016 5:00:38 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
"He recognizes that things aren't static. That what is right to start the campaign isn't necessarily the way you finish the campaign," Manafort told CNN Thursday night after he met with RNC officials here.
But Manafort did not want to call anything a "détente" between Trump and the GOP establishment. "There's no reason to have a detente, I mean there's not a fight," he said.
"I mean the Trump campaign and the RNC are working together on a bunch of different things ... but the focus has been on getting the nomination," he said. "Now that we're approaching the nomination, the focus is on blending the party and the campaign so that we can run as a united team and that's what we started to do here this weekend."
The Trump campaign is approaching things here as if it already won the nomination. There was no focus in the closed-door meeting with Trump's people and the RNC on the effort to secure the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination, a source inside the room said.
Instead, while Manafort acknowledged that Trump has "personality flaws," he argued to RNC members that the billionaire's weaknesses would compare favorably to Hillary Clinton's "character flaws," the source said.
"I mean we had a very good meeting," Manafort told CNN. "I think people were hungry to find out with the campaign's intentions were what Donald Trump's intentions were. We answered all the questions. I think they left there, they have a better understanding of the integration of the campaign with the party as we move towards the general election."
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He’s pulling the Nixon: run to the right in the primary, move to the center for the general, govern on the left if elected.
Seems Trump hired the best while Cruz hired the son's of Nixon Cheaters
Ping
It's a little long for a bumper sticker, but it sure is a fitting summary of 'Lyin' Baby Donald'
Or, an obama if you will. Why can’t people see that? He’s running a con game like he does with all his “deals”.
I don’t think anyone speaks for Mr. Trump other than Mr. Trump.
This is how winners act.
In victory, you don’t rub salt in the wound; you become magnanimous. Thus, pulling the vanquished onto your team.
It’s been so long since our team has had an actual winner, I’m not surprised people here don’t recognize one.
I think many feared that Trump moved right in a vociferous bid to be the nominee and win the nomination. I will not be surprised if he gets back in his moderate left comfort zone if elected. This fastidious conservative approach only started about 7 or 8 years ago. But he has certainly been a cunning opportunist for the greater part of his life.
I have never heard him speak of the origins of our conservative constitutional republic with any admiration or longing. But he has certainly preached about “fixing” the problems we now have. I would like to see an approach that eliminates the causes of the problems we have and reduce the size and scope of government influence and economic asphyxiation.
I will vote for Trump, assuming he is the nominee. And I hope he sticks to the “Primary Donald”. I hope he brings the guns that got him the nomination. And I hope he can beat Hillary and all the poles are wrong. (Polls being wrong would not be the first time.)
Trump speaks off the cuff for an hour at a time. No teleprompter or prepared remarks, just a few notes on a single sheet of paper and what is in his head. That's the real Donald.
The GOP insiders are the ones being "conned." They are being told what they want to hear to get them on board. That there will be a "kinder, gentler" Trump in office.
Even Reagan had to make his famous "half a loaf" compromises to get things done. Trump is saying he, like Reagan, will work with those in power to get things done.
I’m not retreating an inch from where I was. But I also recognize this: There are some people who would have you so stand on principle that if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for from the legislature, why, you jump off the cliff with the flag flying. I have always figured that a half a loaf is better than none, and I know that in the democratic process you’re not going to always get everything you want. So, I think what they’ve misread is times in which I have compromised. -- Ronald Reagan
Which parts of that quote would describe Cruz, and which Trump?
I stand on principle...if you don’t get all that you’ve asked for from the legislature, why, you jump off the cliff with the flag flying. -- Ted Cruz
I have always figured that a half a loaf is better than none, and I know that in the democratic process you’re not going to always get everything you want. -- Donald Trump
“while Manafort acknowledged that Trump has ‘personality flaws,’ he argued to RNC members that the billionaire’s weaknesses would compare favorably to Hillary Clinton’s ‘character flaws’.”
Your candidate is more rotten than our candidate? I guess it could make for a catchy campaign slogan.
Moving to the left and becoming the champion for the queers and the perverts. Gotta get him a lot of votes.
Trump's town hall on Wednesday morning validated that he's a social liberal and will definitely govern from the left if elected.
More from the article: Do leaders take Trump seriously?
But options dwindling, some party leaders said they could make the distinction between Trump’s sharp attacks on the party and his political strategy.
“I think that’s just part of his persona, I never take that stuff seriously or personally,” said Pennsylvania R. P. Chairman Rob Gleason. “He cannot be elected without the Republican Party. That’s the long and short of it. He needs us. We need a candidate and he needs us, so we all need to work together.”
Henry Barbour, a party national committeeman from Mississippi who has said in the past it would be “very hard” for him to vote for Trump, agreed.
“I think that’s Donald Trump being Donald Trump. He’s an insurgent candidate trying to appeal on a populist level. I don’t take it that he really means it,” said Barbour.
The populist furor sparked by Trump, along with his campaign message, that he is being cheated out of the nomination — with the public’s voice being ignored — has exposed a deeper rift in the Republican Party which may have to be worked out after November, no matter who is their nominee and no matter which party wins the White House.
He needs to do that, so they will support him, instead of undermining him.
He can only help the country, if he gets elected.
FR folks need to read the entire article but they are making some false assumptions. It’s not about running to the Left. It’s about Trump running his mouth at rallies and exposing the rigged system.
It’s about Trump bashing the Republican Party for their crooked system.
‘”In Harrisburg, Trump compared the primary system to “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, getting two attacks against his enemies in one.
“The system is rigged, the voting is rigged, the whole deal is crooked 100%, almost as crooked as Crooked Hillary. It’s a crooked deal,” Trump said. “And that’s why you have a case where I go in and win with the vote, and these guys go in, they buy delegates, they buy them dinners, they send them to hotels.”
On Morning Joe on MSNBC this morning, they played the actual recording of the meeting, with Manafort speaking to the group.
How did the RNC allow a recording of a private meeting get into the media?
Right on!
Just listen to Donald’s son’s and you will know he is conservative behind closed doors.
He might move to squishy middle in general, but he will govern as America First conservative.
And were are the ‘mark’, the American people.
As the size and color of the con, how do you think it will compare with Obama’s?
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