Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 07:06 pm
You can clearly see the depression taking over on Fox News as they realize that Donald Trump is blowing any chance of a Republican victory in 2016.
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Transcript of the Fox and Friends panel discussion about Trump’s campaign on Fox News Sunday:
WALTER: The thing is, there’s a very strong case to be prosecuted against the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, their roles in the last eight years in dealing with ISIS, in dealing with Syria, in dealing with Libya. But instead of being focused and disciplined on this message, where Donald Trump goes is he talks about the Muslim ban, he gets in fights with these candidates. He is even dividing his own party about this issue, about how do you deal with this issue of a Muslim ban. And so there’s nobody there making that case. There’s no — it’s not just the Trump campaign. He has no surrogates doing this. There is no money being spent on television ads doing this. There’s no super PACs defending him and doing this. He’s literally an island among himself —
WALLACE: Unto.
WALTER: Unto himself. Thank you. Unto himself. And there’s no reinforcements that he’s getting. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is making the case every day and her allies are making the case every day, both on television and in focused, direct messaging to — to voters.
WALLACE: Brit, I’d love to continue on this — this same issue because, on the one hand, you know, as — as Amy says, to the degree that — that you have these terror attacks, that ISIS is still on the march, you can make the case against Obama and indirectly against Clinton as his — as his secretary of state. On the other hand, as we went through with Senator Sessions, you know, here we have this terrible tragedy and Trump is talking about what else Barack Obama has in mind.
HUME: Exactly right. And it’s worth noting here, Chris, that in every campaign cycle, general election cycle, there are moments when the candidate gets a fresh look from the voters. And when you lock up the nominations is one such moment. These moments are few, and you can’t afford to waste them. And there will be a few more, but Trump had one and he finished, you may recall, he wrapped it up before she had. So he had some open country there and an opportunity to, you know, get people to take a fresh look at him. A disciplined, active, well-planned campaign focusing on the issues that — that could broaden his appeal would have helped him.
And as Amy just pointed out, he hasn’t done any of that, really. I mean he’s — he’s undisciplined. He’s all over the place. You know, he gets in this fight over the — over the — over the ethnic background of — of a federal judge that has to do with a — with a case involving Trump University. Totally unrelated to the campaign.
You know, he overstates the case against Obama by suggesting the president may be — is somehow sympathetic possibly to the bad guys and all the rest of it. And it’s — and it all adds up to a wasted opportunity and an opening for Hillary Clinton, who has moved aggressively. Her camp — it’s very hard to think about what her campaign is really about. Right now it’s about, I’m not Trump and you don’t want him and it may — and it looks as if it’s working.
You can see the fear on the right that Trump has already blown this election. The points that the Fox News Sunday panel made about Trump’s campaign were correct. He has no surrogates, no organization, no coherent message. Trump’s campaign gets constantly hijacked by his own personal scandals.
Trump has no discipline, no message, and no direction.
Democrats are hitting Republicans like an organized political machine. Hillary Clinton has the backing of her party, and they are hammering Trump on a daily basis.
It isn’t even July, and conservative groups are abandoning Trump, while the flagship of conservative media is freaking out because they realize that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is underperforming their worst nightmares.
There may be no recovery as Republicans are slowly sinking under the direction of Donald J. Trump.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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