When it comes to Donald Trump and his bid for the presidency, what has become a recurring theme is that at every step along the way, people have underestimated him.
Nobody gave The Donald a real shot at lasting very long in the Republican primaries, let alone outlasting the establishment favorite Jeb Bush – that alone sent everyone's head on a swivel. After that, nobody gave Donald a real chance to finish off the race against Ted Cruz and John Kasich, everyone kept waiting for Trump to trip over his own comments or tweets, but that time never came. The establishment got so concerned that an alliance was even brokered between Cruz and Kasich in order to make one last effort to stop Trump, and once again that effort failed miserably.
Now that Trump is presumably going to be the GOP candidate that faces off against Hillary (assuming Clinton doesn't somehow lose superdelegates to Sanders during the convention or get indicted first) for the presidency, the media once again is framing Trump as the significant underdog.
The latest narrative as reported by The Hill is that Trump will struggle to find anyone to campaign for him, or anyone with a "name for themselves" at least. It is pointed out that Clinton plans to send all of the heavy hitters out to campaign, a literal establishment All-Star team. With the likes of Michelle Obama, President Obama, Bill Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren out there advocating to the masses for Hillary, how could it be humanly possible for Trump to prevail in November.
After all, no big name Republicans have signed on to back Trump, at least not in earnest. The war hero comments about John McCain have pissed him off to the point where Trump can't rely on that support, Mitt "trickle down racism" Romney has already made it known where he stands on the matter of supporting Trump, and former hopefuls Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have been lukewarm on Trump at best, and likely won't sign up to truly be a friend to the Trump campaign during the summer and fall.
So who is left to help Trump? The Hill brings up New Jersey governor Chris Christie as one option, although Christie's approval has been down in his own home state recently. Other options may be Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions or Newt Gingrich, but those aren't the heavy hitters that Trump would necessarily look at and gain confidence that they're out there campaigning, and even Gingrich recently took some shots at Trump for the Judge Curiel comments.
Trump's family of course will be out advocating, daughter Ivanka seems to have some appeal to voters, but not likely to move the needle much as everyone heads to the polls.
In an email to The Hill Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said that Trump will have a host of campaign surrogates.
"We have many such surrogates, such as Governor Chris Christie, Senator Jeff Sessions, Former Speaker Newt Gingrich and many more" said Hicks.
Even Republican strategists are confused. Kevin Madden, a strategist who served as an adviser to Romney during his bid (so you know Madden knows precisely what he's doing…) called Trump's surrogates "the Trump Green Room brigade", and said that too many of Trump's supporters rely on Trump's twitter feed to figure out what to say. "They're like independent contractors. And it's not a seamless and coordinated response. It's a mishmash of comments." said Madden.
However it is that "mishmash" of comments, and "uncoordinated response" by Trump's followers that has defeated any and all challenges thus far in the race for the White House. Trump has been counted out from the moment he announced that he was running, and it would be wise to understand that like it or not, politics as usual is not how Trump is conducting himself or his campaign.
The point is this, it may not matter what kind of establishment All-Star team Clinton assembles to go give speeches on her behalf, the country is fed up with the establishment, and so far, Trump has been the answer to that frustration.
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