As 2020 Campaigns Launch, Here’s How Trump Has Changed the Game

American Thinker ^ | February 2, 2019 | Larry Alton

[Kaslin]

Donald Trump has shown that he’s perfectly willing to break political rules and carve his own path. For the most part, this strategy has proven successful. So while they may not admit it, candidates on both sides of the party line will spend the next few years replicating his techniques.

The Trump Effect: Campaigning and More

Few politicians or political insiders want to admit that President Trump is anything but lucky. Establishment Republicans don’t like the fact that he was able to infiltrate the party and spark a movement that didn’t fit their historical model for candidacy. Democrats not only disdain his method of rising to power, but also the message he preaches. The media, who receives stiff lashings from Trump on a regular basis, is naturally an adversary as well.

However, in their quietest moments of privacy, even the haters -- of which there are many -- can’t ignore the fact that he came onto the political stage in the summer of 2015 and fundamentally turned modern politics on its head. And while we could investigate numerous issues and practices that President 45 has fractured and rearranged, now’s the perfect time to focus on the issue of political campaigning -- something that the Trump team used to spark a massive wave of support that ultimately carried him to the shores of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Here we are in the first few weeks of 2019, and we’re only months away from a new set of campaigns, debates, and rallies. The 2020 election season will be upon us before we have time to blink and, if you look closely enough, you’ll notice that campaigns on both the left and right will be pulling techniques and methods from what the Trump team did just a few short years ago.

[alloysteel]

Trump’s nomination and election were the combination of luck and just plain hard work over long hours. The harder his team worked and the more hours they put in, the luckier they got.

Now, simply because a lot of HARD work is put in, does not make it a virtue in and of itself. The effort must also be SMART work, and that may the hardest of all.

[TalBlack]

and spark a movement that didn’t fit their historical model for candidacy. ...”

How long did they think they could go on lying to their voters. THEY provoked the rise of Trump. He never would have tried to actually run if they weren’t so damned PATHETIC.

[Jim W N]

The Trump Effect: WE WIN, YOU LOSE!!!!

[bigbob]

I was thinking the other day about how much LESS we’d know about the Left if some Republican other than Trump had won. All this would have still been behind the curtain, being slowly worked into law by the Left and Right branches of the Uniparty.

Trump blew it all up.

[SunkenCiv]

[TomGuy]

They may imitate, but they will never duplicate.

Just trying to do what Trump did will not necessarily guarantee them success.

And that applies to candidates from both major parties and independents.

[cpdiii]

Trump was elected because the voters were disgusted with both the Republicans and Democrats. Although he ran as a Republican he was an outsider of the old guard Republican Party as such he was a threat to the power structure of both parties. That is why many of the old elite (McCain etc) tried to destroy his election and throw it to Hillary. Still today many in his own party want to take him down. The are swine.

Trump had the audacity to represent his voters and not the Washington Swamp of Corruption.

[upchuck]

Do you think God played any part in President Trump’s victory?

[FreedomPoster]

Trump’s digital campaign manager is Brad Parscale. This guy is simply incredible. This long interview is well worth watching, both to see Parscale’s campaign approach and to see him pick apart the adversarial interviewer.

The Facebook Dilemma: Brad Parscale
https://youtu.be/yjn6wK01cqk

[Jacquerie]

Candidate Trump wasn't a party apparatchik. He didn't come up through the ranks. He is instead The Echo of Our Framers' Uncorrupted President.

[Jacquerie]

That PBS guy is a jerk. It’s good that Parscale is on our side.

[shanover]

No wall will mean no re-election.

[arthurus]

In America it is said that one makes his own luck.

[arthurus]

Trying to imitate DJT will make at least some of them look like second rate actors reading unfamiliar scripts.

[SteveH]

wow! who was the unnamed, anonymous invisible FRONTLINE female producer who interjected commentary and her personal views at 1:11?

that is a major no-no in an interview!!

what a coward she is not to show her face even though she actively attempted to alter the interview!!

this is totally unethical by any journalistic standard!!

defund PBS for dishonest unethical reporting!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjn6wK01cqk&t=71m

[datricker]

It was also nice of Hillary to disappear for days at a time during the campaign. I’ve never seen anybody campaign as heard as Trump conversely I’ve never seen as bad of a candidate as Hillary at the presidential level. And there have been some doozies. I don’t think we can count on having such awful opposition this next time. Thankfully Trump is the incumbent president

[tinamina]

Once Kamala starts laughing Dems won’t be interested either.Just wonder how to turn her OFF.

[GOPJ]

...Hillary Clinton raised $1.4 billion for her campaign. Donald Trump’s team brought in $957 million. On paper, that’s a huge mismatch. But it was how the money was spent that ultimately swung the pendulum into Trump’s favor. “Trump refused to spend the money required to buy TV and radio time at a level that matched his opponent Hillary Clinton...

THIS is why the political consultant class is against Trump...

AND why others have to follow in Trump's footsteps.

You ask 'how the deep state' became so powerful? It goes back to toxic incentives within the political consultant community... They type of candidate perfect for a consultant is almost the opposite of they type a person who would be good for the country.Larry Alton's getting warmer.