Trump trumpets
I’m sure that if you live in the United States you could not avoid hearing the news that Donald Trump trumpeted pledged his allegiance, in writing, to the Republican Party and waved the document on TV to prove it.
He had to so he could run in the South Carolina and other primaries. You probably don’t know but primaries are private elections largely paid for by the states’ taxpayers. A caucus is private, but the primary system, a little over one hundred years old are expensive to hold.
If you watched the TV news or listened to the statements very carefully he tied the signing of that document to being treated “with respect” (whatever that means) by the Republican Party. That means he has an out. When I ran for Congress, I talked to the Chairman of Georgia’s GOP and was asked to support the winning candidate. I did, because I am a Republican. I am certainly not a Democrat or an Independent.
I don’t think that Mr. Trump will or care who is chosen if not him. Why? As I wrote before, he is nearly seventy years old so it’s now or never. So he’ll do whatever it takes to win. That’s his personality in action.
He doesn’t want to go down in history as a loser, so he’ll use every trick in the book to win. The media has finally figured this out, so you may have noticed that he is getting less and less free news coverage. He’ll have to start spending his donors money to pay for publicity, not get it free.
It’s reported that he loaned his campaign a few million dollars in seed money and will probably pay it back to himself once the millions start to roll in. That’s the way politicians do business; use supporters money for their political use and not their own.
If Trump fails to win the Republican primary, as the Republican candidate for President of the United States, I believe that he will void his agreement to support the actual nominee.
He will say that the Republican Party did not treat him “with respect” after the pledge, so the agreement is void and it was the Republican Party’s fault. It’s called shifting the blame, so that he can run as an Independent.
This leaves him the opportunity to run as a third party candidate and hopefully win. If he doesn’t, he’ll deflect blame onto the Republican Party. The Republican Party cannot win this game. Compared to Trump they are children.
As I wrote above, the reason I think he’ll void “the pledge” is that Donald Trump is almost seventy years old, so it’s now or never. It’s clear that he will not have a chance if he tries to run for president again, at almost eighty years old, as replacing a sitting president is practically impossible. Eight years for Donald Trump is literally a lifetime.
Trump has managed to corner the market on free advertising. That’s under the earned column. If he wins the nomination, he’ll dramatically tone down his rhetoric to capture the Democratic Party voters. Otherwise he will lose.
So let’s see what happens. May we live in interesting times. As least we are being entertained.
