Playing The Trump Card – Ep. 182

* It's official. The unthinkable, according to the status quo earlier in the campaign, Donald Trump is the Republican Nominee
* Although many wrote him off as a candidate, I never did; I always said he was being underestimated
* I believed his message would resonate given how horrible the economy actually is and what is really happening beneath the headlines
* Everybody was proclaiming recovery and that we're on the right track and I knew that that wasn't the case
* I knew there would be a lot of dissatisfaction among the electorate on both sides of the aisle
* Even after Donald Trump locked up the Republican nomination, everybody was still writing him off
* The idea was, "He's going to lose in a landslide"
* Republican establishment said, "Abandon ship!", distancing themselves from Trump to maintain the House and the Senate, writing off the White House
* Maybe run against Hillary in 4 years
* That was the general consensus
* Again, I kept saying the the media and the political establishment on both sides were underestimating Donald Trump and the potential appeal of a Trump presidency
* I think that the speech he gave at the convention really proves that point
* I thought his speech was brilliant.
* When I say brilliant, I don't necessarily agree with everything he said; I clearly don't
* I'm talking about the political perspective
* Was this an effective speech to set the tone of the campaign?
* In that respect, I think he hit the ball out of the park
* The most clever thing about his speech is he didn't go after the Republicans
* He went after the Democrats
* He went after their base; their core constituency
* He is bringing the fight to their turf
* He went for the women, he went for the minorities
* Not just African Americans and Latinos, but the LGBTQ and the blue collar workers
* Donald Trump did not go after the entrepreneur
* He didn't promise to get government off your back and free up the businessman from red tape
* That's a typical Republican acceptance speech
* He said, "I'm going to be the champion of the little guy."
* The downtrodden, the forgotten voter
* "I'm your guy! The system has been rigged against you and because I have been part of the problem, I'm the only one who can deliver the solution"
* I think this is a very powerful strategy
* Because the Democrats have been taking their constituency for granted
* What Donald Trump says is, "Why are you blindly supporting the Democratic nominee?"
* What have they done for you? Nothing.
* He will bring up the shocking statistics that have been getting worse under 7 years of Barack Obama
* The horrible unemployment in the African American community
* The inner city crime
* The government dependency. The despair.
* Why are African Americans handing their votes to a Democrat?
* The Democrats have let them down and failed them
* Donald Trump will say, "I won't do that. Trust me."
* "I will deliver on the broken promises of generations of Democrats."
* What about women?
* Instead of denying the gender gap, he just accepted it.
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