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The Republican Party is dead. What comes next?

Republican Party bends to Donald Trump

This week may well be viewed as the week in which the Republican Party died. After Party primary voters chose Donald Trump as their presidential nominee in May, Trump this week chose Steve Bannon, the chairman of right wing website Breitbart News, as his campaign manager, effectively shunting aside Paul Manafort, an experienced GOP strategist and lobbyist. Today, Manafort resigned from the Trump campaign. While Manafort was facing a Russian influence scandal, had become a lightning rod for negative publicity and thus had to go, he was at least a mainstream Republican who deals in reality. Trump’s choice of Bannon as a replacement for Manafort pushes Trump’s presidential campaign, and thus the Republican Party, further into fake conspiracy theory territory.

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Tags: 2016 Elections, Bill Clinton, Breitbart, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, GOP, Hillary Clinton, Paul Manafort, Republican Party, Russia, Supreme Court, Twitter

Republicans abandon Donald Trump

Written on August 9, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Republican Messaging

Satirical anti-Donald Trump poster in New York City

The general election phase of a presidential campaign is when a party nominee, having garnered the majority of the party’s primary voter base, tries to expand that base to include “swing voters,” and even moderates from the other party. This year, however, Donald Trump, the Republican Party presidential nominee, is hemorrhaging Republicans while simultaneously failing to grow his base. As a result, the Republicans are in panic mode, with no end to the bleeding in sight.

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Tags: 2016 Elections, 2016 Republican primaries, Donald Trump, General John Allen, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, John McCain, Meg Whitman, Mike Pence, New York Times, Paul Ryan, Republican Party

Will Donald Trump drop out of the presidential race?

Written on August 4, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Republican Messaging

Donald Trump speaking in Cedar Rapids, IA on July 28, 2016

After Donald Trump‘s disastrous last couple of weeks, not just the polls but events seem to be moving quickly against him. First, it was reported that key Republicans close to Trump, such as Newt Gingrich and Rudolf Giuliani, along with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, were going to stage an “intervention” with Trump. Now, however, some Republicans, such as Gingrich and Giuliani, are saying there is no intervention. If not, it may be because Republicans are moving on to the next step. What was almost unthinkable just days ago is now the subject of open speculation: will Republicans try to force Donald Trump out of the presidential race and replace him with someone more palatable? Is that possible? If so, how it would work? Or will Trump get fed up and just quit?

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Tags: 2016 Elections, 2016 Republican primaries, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, President Barack Obama, Republican Party

Trump’s treasonous troubles

Written on August 2, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Media Watch, Republican Messaging

Donald Trump on the campaign trail in March of this year.

Donald Trump is not having a good week. Trump managed to cast himself as both unpatriotic and treasonous within the space of a few days. First, Trump invited Russia to commit cyber espionage against the U.S. in order to influence the upcoming presidential election in Trump’s favor, which many have called possibly treasonous or at least a violation of the Logan Act. Then Trump attacked the Gold Star family of Captain Humayun Khan, a U.S. soldier of Muslim faith who was killed in Iraq in 2004 while protecting his troops. Not surprisingly, Hillary Clinton‘s lead against Donald Trump is now growing.

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Tags: 2016 Elections, Crimea, debates, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Ghazala Khan, Hillary Clinton, Humayun Khan, John McCain, Khizr Khan, NFL, Presidential debates, Republican Party, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Democrats take patriotism back from the Republicans

Written on July 29, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Media Watch, Republican Messaging

Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama at the 2016 Democratic National Convention

Beginning in 1980 and throughout his presidency, Ronald Reagan appropriated the idea of patriotism and America and planted it firmly with the Republican Party. This week, however, at their national convention and with a big boost from Donald Trump, the Democratic Party and their presidential nominee Hillary Clinton took patriotism back.

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Tags: 2016 Elections, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, Tim Kaine, Vice President Joe Biden

Raucous unity at the Democratic National Convention

Written on July 26, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Media Watch

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders at recent unity event in New Hampshire

The diverse, outspoken and sometimes raucous Democratic Party was on full display on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania yesterday. This is the party whose unity is likened to “herding cats.” On the other hand, the outbursts from some delegates at the convention hardly spelled doom and gloom, as some chattering heads on the cable TV news networks intimated. Rather, if you caught the unfiltered convention proceedings via live stream or C-SPAN, you saw a political party reach a noisy state of unity, as only the Democrats can do.

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Tags: Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, climate change, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Democratic primaries, DNC, Donald Trump, Elijah Cummings, Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, Russia, Sarah Silverman, Supreme Court

Welcome to the Trump Republican National Convention train wreck

Written on July 21, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic vs. Republican Presidents, Fox "News" Watch, Media Watch, Messaging Maxims, Republican Messaging

Ill-fated Trump/Pence “TP” logo.

On Monday, several of Donald Trump‘s campaign staffers were involved in a minor car accident in New York City. That was nothing compared to the train wreck that is the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Cleveland, Ohio, and the events of the previous days. Here are some of the many things that have gone wrong for the Trump campaign and the Republican Party in just the past week:

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Tags: 2016 Elections, Donald Trump, John Kasich, Melania Trump, Meredith McIver, Michelle Obama, Mike Pence, NATO, Republican National Convention, Republican Party, RNC, Saddam Hussein, Scott Baio, Ted Cruz, The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the Democrats unite against Donald Trump

Written on July 12, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Democratic vs. Republican Presidents

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during primary season.

Today in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders held a remarkable unity rally in which Sanders enthusiastically endorsed Clinton for president. Standing in front of a giant American flag with his beaming former rival, Sanders said:

Secretary Clinton has won the Democratic nominating process. And I congratulate her for that. She will be the Democratic nominee for president, and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States.

Sanders went on to say, “I have come here to make it as clear as possible as to why I am endorsing Hillary Clinton, and why she must become our next president.”

Both Clinton and Sanders gave substantial speeches at the boisterous event, which highlighted each of their strengths and interests. For example, Sanders focused on economic issues, while Clinton spoke passionately about gun violence, saying, to big cheers, “surely we can agree that weapons of war have no place on the streets of America.” However, one area on which Clinton and Sanders both clearly agreed was the need to defeat Donald Trump in this year’s presidential election. For instance, Sanders said that Trump’s position on health care is the “same old Republican contempt for working families,” while Clinton said, “Donald Trump thinks wages are too high. . . . He does want to get rid of the federal minimum wage altogether.”

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Tags: 2016 Elections, assault weapons, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Democratic Party primaries, Donald Trump, economy, gun violence, health care, Hillary Clinton, jobs, Minimum Wage, Republican Party

Hillary Clinton snoozes to victory

Written on July 6, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Media Watch, Republican Messaging

Hillary Clinton campaign truck.

The above headline is exactly what the mainstream media have been trying to avoid for a year and a half. If you’ve ever watched a one-sided sports event, you’ll know the reason why: viewers will tune out, and that’s bad for business. So what we all need to remember is that the mainstream media’s goal during this entire election season is to create more drama, which leads to higher ratings, and money for themselves. This business incentive can be seen in the coverage of Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server as Secretary of State, which the FBI just cleared as not a criminal offense.

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Tags: 2016 Elections, Benghazi, Bernie Sanders, Democratic primaries, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders take a beating at Politicon 2016

Written on June 26, 2016 by Messaging Matters in Democratic Messaging, Media Watch, Republican Messaging

Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson delivers keynote address at Politicon 2016.

The second Politicon began yesterday in Pasadena, California and continues today. Politicon is billed as “an unconventional political convention” which brings together the most diverse array of political and entertainment figures this side of the White House Correspondents Dinner, including comedians Larry Wilmore and Lizz Winstead; U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer of California; political consultants James Carville and Paul Begala; conservative media figures Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck; Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson; former Mexican President Vicente Fox and many more. Perhaps the mere fact that this diverse group was featured at Politicon makes them all “establishment” in a way. If so, that might explain why, at yesterday’s event, criticism of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders was widespread.

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Tags: Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Politicon

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