So You Thought Trump Had a Good Day Yesterday?

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So You Thought Trump Had a Good Day Yesterday?

BY MICHAEL WALSH SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
If you thought Donald Trump seized the initiative and scored big yesterday with his bully-pulpit trip to Mexico and his fiery speech on illegal immigration and the necessity to maintain America's borders... think again:

 

THE BIG IDEA: Immigration is a losing issue for Donald Trump, and he’s just spent two weeks talking about it almost every day. After telegraphing repeatedly that he would embrace a more politically palatable position, the Republican nominee used a much-ballyhooed speech in Phoenix last night to make clear that there will be no softening whatsoever. In some key ways, he even hardened his position.

 

Republicans facing four more years in the wilderness will long recall the raucous rally in Phoenix as a low point of the Trump campaign, perhaps even as the moment that he definitively extinguished his hopes of becoming president.

 

That feeling will be particularly pronounced because it came at the end of a whirlwind day that might otherwise have been remembered as a triumph.
https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/09/01/so-you-thought-trump-had-a-good-day-yesterday

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The Trump Campaign’s Best Day

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN • September 2, 2016, 12:12 AM

In accepting the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto to fly to Mexico City, the Donald was taking a major risk.

 

Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump’s campaign.

 

Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and its people, Trump looked like a president. And the Mexican president treated him like one, even as Trump restated the basic elements of his immigration policy, including the border wall.

 

The gnashing of teeth up at the New York Times testifies to Trump’s triumph:

 

“Mr. Trump has spent his entire campaign painting Mexico as a nation of rapists, drug smugglers, and trade hustlers. … But instead of chastising Mr. Trump, Mr. Pena Nieto treated him like a visiting head of state … with side-by-side lecterns and words of deferential mush.” http://www.theamericanconservative.com/buchanan/the-trump-campaigns-best-day/

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conquistador trump

By:Pat Buchanan | September 02, 2016

 

In accepting the invitation of President Enrique Pena Nieto to fly to Mexico City, the Donald was taking a major risk.

 

Yet it was a bold and decisive move, and it paid off in what was the best day of Donald Trump's campaign.

 

Standing beside Nieto, graciously complimenting him and speaking warmly of Mexico and its people, Trump looked like a president. And the Mexican president treated him like one, even as Trump restated the basic elements of his immigration policy, including the border wall.

 

The gnashing of teeth up at the New York Times testifies to Trump's triumph:

 

"Mr. Trump has spent his entire campaign painting Mexico as a nation of rapists, drug smugglers, and trade hustlers. . . . But instead of chastising Mr. Trump, Mr. Pena Nieto treated him like a visiting head of state . . . with side-by-side lecterns and words of deferential mush."

As I wrote in August, Trump "must convince the nation . . . he is an acceptable, indeed, a preferable alternative" to Hillary Clinton, whom the nation does not want.

 

In Mexico City, Trump did that. https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/conquistador-trump/

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He did a good day. Now Republicans Are Thrilled That Our Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump Has Gone A Week Without Saying/Doing Something Really Stupid.

 

 

Talk About Setting The Bar Low.

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He did a good day. Now Republicans Are Thrilled That Our Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump Has Gone A Week Without Saying/Doing Something Really Stupid.

 

 

Talk About Setting The Bar Low.

Ops I'm also that he's stayed on point.

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Dos to Tango

 

Scott P. Richert - SEPTEMBER 08, 2016

 

Donald Trump’s surprise visit to Mexico on August 31 has been analyzed every which way, except for one—the one that may, in the long run, prove most important. While every journalist and political pundit felt compelled to speculate on what Trump hoped to gain from the visit, and whether it would help or hurt him, no one bothered to consider why Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto extended the invitation in the first place. Since Peña Nieto invited both Hillary Clinton and Trump to discuss areas of mutual concern between Mexico and the United States before the November elections, the assumption on this side of the border seems to have been that the explanation was inherent in the invitation itself.

 

 

 

And yet, as the Mexican press and pundits understood, such an invitation was unprecedented. On the face of it, Peña Nieto had nothing personally to gain from sitting down with Clinton, and much to lose from sitting down with Trump. In fact, the scorn that he received from the Mexican press, fellow politicians (including the two previous presidents of Mexico), and the Mexican public was entirely predictable. So what could he possibly have had in mind?

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2016/October/40/10/magazine/article/10836887/