Another scathing editorial, this time by the Republican Wall Street Journal:
Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign. “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%,” Mr. Trump averred on Twitter .
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The latest stories comport with what we also hear from sources close to the Trump campaign.
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Mr. Trump’s advisers and his family want the candidate to deliver a consistent message making the case for change. They’d like him to be disciplined...And they’d like him to spend a little time each day—a half hour even—studying the issues he’ll need to understand if he becomes President.
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Is that so hard? Apparently so. Mr. Trump prefers to watch the cable shows rather than read a briefing paper.
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...he thinks that Twitter and social media can make up for being outspent $100 million to zero in battleground states.
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These stories are appearing now because the polls show that Mr. Trump is on the path to losing a winnable race. He is now losing in every key battleground state, some like New Hampshire by double digits. The Midwest industrial states he claimed he would put into play—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—have turned sharply toward Mrs. Clinton.
More ominously, states won by John McCain and Mitt Romney are much closer than they should be. If Mr. Trump is fighting to hold Georgia, Arizona and even Utah by September, a landslide defeat becomes all too possible.
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If [Trump's advisors] can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.
Wait. What? Turn it over to Pence? How can he do that? I wish these damned Republicans would cite to a procedure or rule when they make these bold pronouncements: "GOP should dump Trump." How, after he's been nominated? "Turn it over to Pence." He can't do that. What, the nominee can just decide, "Eh, don't feel like it anymore. Mike's gonna do it in my place"? He can choose his replacement? No. Trump can decide to pack it in but he cannot decide who his replacement is, not after millions of votes have been cast, albeit by low-lifes. I have no idea what the procedure is, or if there is a procedure, when a nominee decides "On the whole, I'd rather not," but if there is a procedure what that procedure is not is "I like Mike."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-self-reckoning-1471213081
Donald Trump lashed out at the media on Sunday after more stories describing dysfunction inside his presidential campaign. “If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn’t put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20%,” Mr. Trump averred on Twitter .
...
The latest stories comport with what we also hear from sources close to the Trump campaign.
...
Mr. Trump’s advisers and his family want the candidate to deliver a consistent message making the case for change. They’d like him to be disciplined...And they’d like him to spend a little time each day—a half hour even—studying the issues he’ll need to understand if he becomes President.
...
Is that so hard? Apparently so. Mr. Trump prefers to watch the cable shows rather than read a briefing paper.
...
...he thinks that Twitter and social media can make up for being outspent $100 million to zero in battleground states.
...
These stories are appearing now because the polls show that Mr. Trump is on the path to losing a winnable race. He is now losing in every key battleground state, some like New Hampshire by double digits. The Midwest industrial states he claimed he would put into play—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania—have turned sharply toward Mrs. Clinton.
More ominously, states won by John McCain and Mitt Romney are much closer than they should be. If Mr. Trump is fighting to hold Georgia, Arizona and even Utah by September, a landslide defeat becomes all too possible.
...
If [Trump's advisors] can’t get Mr. Trump to change his act by Labor Day, the GOP will have no choice but to write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races. As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be President—or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence.
Wait. What? Turn it over to Pence? How can he do that? I wish these damned Republicans would cite to a procedure or rule when they make these bold pronouncements: "GOP should dump Trump." How, after he's been nominated? "Turn it over to Pence." He can't do that. What, the nominee can just decide, "Eh, don't feel like it anymore. Mike's gonna do it in my place"? He can choose his replacement? No. Trump can decide to pack it in but he cannot decide who his replacement is, not after millions of votes have been cast, albeit by low-lifes. I have no idea what the procedure is, or if there is a procedure, when a nominee decides "On the whole, I'd rather not," but if there is a procedure what that procedure is not is "I like Mike."
http://www.wsj.com/articles/trumps-self-reckoning-1471213081
