oped:Yes indeed I called it right way back in July 2015...IMO Donald's presidency will fall somewhere between Obama and Clinton...it still amazes me how people never seem to learn...they continue to make the same mistakes over and over again "Yes we Can" slogans rule, common sense (a oxymoron) takes a backseat ride!
see: http://sharlaslabyrinth.blogspot.com/2015/07/donald-trumpcarnival-barker-extrodinaire.html
via:The Horn News
Is presidential candidate Donald Trump backing down, or is this another crafty move by the master of the deal?
It depends on who you ask. But, with his general-election appeal in
question, Donald Trump’s senior team is promising anxious Republicans
that voters will see “a real different guy” soon after the GOP
front-runner claims his party’s presidential nomination.
“When he’s out on the stage, when he’s talking about the kinds of
things he’s talking about on the stump, he’s projecting an image that’s
for that purpose,” Paul Manafort, who is leading Trump’s primary
election strategy, told Republican National Committee members in a
private briefing late Thursday. The Associated Press obtained a
recording of the discussion.
“You’ll start to see more depth of the person, the real person. You’ll see a real different guy,” Manafort said.
“He gets it,” Manafort said of Trump’s need to moderate his brash
personality. “The part that he’s been playing is evolving into the part
that now you’ve been expecting, but he wasn’t ready for, because he had
first to complete the first phase. The negatives will come down. The
image is going to change.”
The message is part of the campaign’s intensifying effort to convince
party leaders that Trump will help deliver big electoral gains this
fall, despite his contentious ways. Yet it also opens him up to
questions about his authenticity.
Republican rival Ted Cruz seized on the remarks in a radio interview late Thursday.
“I’m actually going to give Trump a little bit of credit here. He’s
being candid. He’s telling us he’s lying to us,” Cruz told host Mark
Levin. “You look at what his campaign manager says, is that this is just
an act. This is just a show.”
The Texas senator continued: “When Donald talks about building a
wall, when Donald talks about enforcing immigration laws, when Donald
talks about, I guess, anything, that it’s all an act, a show.”
The Republican National Committee gathered at a seaside resort in
south Florida for its annual spring meeting. While candidates in both
parties targeted primary contests in the Northeast, Hollywood’s Diplomat
Resort & Spa turned into a palm-treed political battleground.
Senior advisers for Trump, Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich courted RNC
members in a series of private meetings on the resort’s grounds,
sometimes sitting at adjacent tables in the marble-floored lobby.
Trump’s tightening grasp of his party’s presidential nomination
dominated much of the hallway discussion.
“He’s trying to moderate. He’s getting better,” said Ben Carson, a
Trump ally who was part of the GOP’s front-runner’s RNC outreach team.
Despite his team’s aggressive message, Trump was telling voters he
wasn’t quite ready to act presidential. “I just don’t know if I want to
do it yet,” he said during a raucous rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
that was frequently interrupted by protesters.
“At some point, I’m going to be so presidential that you people will
be so bored,” he said, predicting that the size of his crowds would
dwindle if he dialed back his rhetoric.
Trump’s team also signaled to RNC members that he was willing to dip
into his personal fortune to fund his presidential bid, in addition to
helping the national committee raise money, a promise that came as Trump
prepared to launch his first big television advertising campaign in a
month.
His campaign reserved about $2 million worth of air time in
soon-to-vote Pennsylvania and Indiana, advertising tracker Kantar
Media’s CMAG shows.
“He’s willing to spend what is necessary to finish this out. That’s a big statement from him,” Manafort said in the briefing.
Manafort also insisted that Trump is prepared to work closely with
party leaders, despite the candidate’s near-daily public attacks on what
he calls “a rigged” presidential nomination system.
“Is Donald Trump running against the Republican National Committee? The answer is he is not,” Manafort said.
Trump is increasingly optimistic about his chances in five states
holding primary contests Tuesday: Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. He is now the only candidate who
can possibly collect the 1,237-delegate majority needed to claim the GOP
nomination before the party’s July convention.
Cruz and Kasich hope Trump will fall short so that they can have a
chance to turn enough delegates to win the nomination at the convention.
What do you think of The Donald’s move to soften his demeanor? Share your comments below.
The Associated Press contributed to this article