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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You and I both read the article. It suggested that the Trump campaign was ready for Biden to drop out and Harris to be their opponent. We both saw, on Sunday, that the Trump campaign didn't seem so ready.
Here is my hypothesis. Someone from the NYT proposed a story about how the Trump campaign would handle Biden dropping out and Harris being their opponent. They interviewed people from the campaign about this, and wrote a story about how awesome the campaign people were, and how ready they were, and all that good stuff. They wrote this article this way, in part, to curry favor with their sources in the Trump campaign, to ensure good access to future stories. Were they intentionally misreporting? Of course not. But it's hard to really assess how ready the campaign would be to deal with a new opponent, and when they tell you they're on top of it, isn't it easier to report it that way? If you're writing the story, you're not really expecting Biden to drop out the next morning, and for the Trump campaign to fumble in its response.
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Is the Trump Campaign really ever on top of anything? They had a great social media campaign in 2016, but that's it. Everyone I know who's worked with them has described a disorganized bunch that, like its leader, makes decisions in an almost exclusively reactive manner. Run and gun offense, everything on the fly.
In one regard, they can be viewed as ready for anything. In another, they're never really ready for anything.
