{"id":99555,"date":"2016-06-29T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99555"},"modified":"2016-06-29T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:49:07","slug":"can-trump-keep-winging-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=99555","title":{"rendered":"Can Trump Keep Winging It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn writes<\/a>: I did check out the action backstage, and I\u2019ll say this: It was unlike any other candidate event I\u2019ve been to. By comparison with, say, presidential campaigns such as Lamar Alexander\u2019s or Orrin Hatch\u2019s, Trump is very lightly staffed, and entirely unmanaged. Twenty minutes before the event, backstage is usually a whirl of activity with minions pretending to look busy and frantically tippy-tapping away on their phones over some vital matter or other. Deputy speechwriters and assistant campaign managers bustle about saying things like, \u201cMike\u2019s seen the Egyptian Prime Minister\u2019s response to the Secretary of State, so we\u2019re working on a sentence to add to the nuclear-proliferation section.\u201d There\u2019s none of that around Trump. He\u2019s meandering around back there shooting the breeze, posing for pics, totally relaxed \u2013 and so are his press secretary and campaign manager, too. If you\u2019ve seen any of those inside-the-campaign movies, from Robert Redford in The Candidate to George Clooney in Ides of March, it looks all wrong: There\u2019s far too few people, and there\u2019s none of the fake busyness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn writes: I did check out the action backstage, and I\u2019ll say this: It was unlike any other candidate event I\u2019ve been to. By comparison with, say, presidential campaigns such as Lamar Alexander\u2019s or Orrin Hatch\u2019s, Trump is very … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t