Trump campaign thinks Ivanka Trump is its secret weapon: report
President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign hopes that senior White House official Ivanka Trump will be a secret weapon.
“President Trump has begun admitting what polls have shown for three years: Many, many people hate him. And he’s okay with that,” The Washington Post reported Thursday.
“It is a rare admission from a politician. But it’s key to a campaign strategy built around an awareness that Trump’s favorability — even before he was impeached by the House — is near record lows and that he won’t stop tweeting, offering bombast and insults, saying things that aren’t true, or making polarizing decisions,” the newspaper explained.
“The idea is to talk more about his record and less about his personality — while slashing and burning Democratic opponents,” The Post reported.
The president’s older daughter is key to the plan.
“They said many people don’t want to publicly admit that they back Trump, but they ultimately will. Their targets are primarily suburban women and independents,” The Post reported. “The campaign expects to send surrogates who are less bombastic, such as Ivanka Trump, into areas where suburban women might be persuaded to vote for him.”
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Pentagon officials may ignore Trump’s election tantrum and meet unofficially with Biden’s team: report
This Tuesday, President-elect Joe Biden named a group of key staffers for his future administration as the standoff with the Trump administration over the transfer of power continues.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the standoff has prompted some U.S. national-security officials to suggest unofficially meeting at off-site locations with members of Biden’s team.
"Some officials at the Pentagon said they would be willing to meet off site with members of the Biden team should the standoff extend into December," WSJ reports. "These officials said that waiting past mid-December and into the holiday season wouldn’t give the incoming team enough time to learn about jobs that could affect the safety of deployed U.S. service members."
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‘Just disgraceful’: Rudy Giuliani ripped in court for living in a ‘fantasy world’
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had a tough day on Tuesday in his quest to have President Donald Trump remain in office despite losing the 2020 presidential race.
Giuliani was in federal court in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and during a break in the hearing learned the Trump campaign had lost their lawsuit at the Keystone State's Supreme Court.
"Mark Aronchick, a lawyer for the Allegheny County Board of Elections, is furious with Giuliani. He says he's living in a 'fantasy world' and his allegations about election officials being in a 'mafia' are 'disgraceful,'" LA Times correspondent Chris Megerian reported Tuesday.
2020 Election
Trump loses big in Pennsylvania as his post-election litigation flounders
President Donald Trump suffered yet another court defeat on Tuesday when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected his campaign's claim that elections observers were not close enough to the ballot counting.
"700,000 ballots were not allowed to be viewed in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh which means, based on our great Constitution, we win the State of Pennsylvania," Trump falsely claimed on Twitter on Friday.
The court did not agree with Trump's constitutional interpretation.
White woman with Taser threatens family: ‘You’re acting like Black people and you shouldn’t’
Mike Pence has been unflinchingly loyal to Trump — and now it’s coming back to haunt him: report
Awkward spelling blunder undermines GOP efforts to fight for Donald Trump in Georgia
Donald Trump campaign must pony up $7.9 million for Wisconsin recount — and the deadline is Wednesday: report
MSNBC’s Mika trashes ‘mad king’ Trump for throwing latest Twitter tantrums
CBD sales are soaring — but evidence is still slim that the cannabis derivative makes a difference for anxiety or pain
Joe Biden speaks to two right-wing Trump allies as world leaders increasingly accept the president’s defeat
Occultist accused of homeless voter scheme in California mayor bid
Trump campaign app tracked movements of supporters — and served up ‘intimate’ view of social networks: report
Pentagon officials may ignore Trump’s election tantrum and meet unofficially with Biden’s team: report
White woman with Taser threatens family: ‘You’re acting like Black people and you shouldn’t’
‘What the hell is Lindsey Graham doing?’ CNN analyst shocked by GOP senator’s election meddling
Trump supporters attack the host of their own rally for trying to enforce COVID-19 guidelines
Georgia secretary of state responds after Lindsey Graham’s denial: He wanted to ‘throw out the ballots’
