{"id":30964,"date":"2020-10-23T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30964"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T13:09:41","slug":"youre-too-trusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/23\/youre-too-trusting\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Too Trusting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kos of <em><strong>The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/10\/21\/1988152\/-Nevada-won-t-save-Donald-Trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">puzzling<\/a> over the Trump advertising strategy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Civiqs polled Nevada October 17-20, interviewing 712 likely voters, with a MoE of 5.3%.<\/p>\n<table class=\"dk5-table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>PRESIDENT<\/th>\n<th>10\/2020<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>DONALD TRUMP (R-INC)<\/th>\n<td class=\"AlignCenter\">43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>JOE BIDEN (D)<\/th>\n<td class=\"AlignCenter\">52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Biden is comfortably over 50%, Trump trails way back. A double digit Biden victory here wouldn\u2019t surprise me. A Fox News poll in late September had Biden up by\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/official-polls\/fox-news-poll-tight-race-in-ohio-biden-tops-trump-in-nevada-and-pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an even bigger margin, 52-41<\/a>. A\u00a0<em>NY Times<\/em>\/Siena poll in early October\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/oh-nv-crosstabs\/d91c22da8b8953eb\/full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">had Biden winning 48-42<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign\u2019s continued spending here is curious, as it\u2019s not part of a path that current Trump campaign manager Bridgegate Bill Stepien\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/trump-advisers-brace-for-loss-02d6b688-4d15-46f8-a28c-efdf2a5640c3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sees as a likely one:<\/a>\u00a0\u201cpathway three\u2014the one Stepien views as least likely of the options\u2014does not include Arizona but involves Trump winning North Carolina, Michigan and Nevada.\u201d Don\u2019t be surprised if you see the campaign quietly cancel its ad reservations there,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2020\/10\/19\/1987809\/-Trump-s-final-ad-buy-shows-just-how-broke-his-campaign-really-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as it\u2019s broke<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll say it again: <em>follow the money<\/em>. When all the candidate and his followers value is dollars, then the motivations of their actions are different from that of earnest candidates. It&#8217;s not easy to follow the money, I&#8217;m sure, but someone in the press will figure it out, eventually, and my bet is that this is just a massive laundering operation, getting money from the campaign war chest to the pockets of those owed money by Trump &#8211; or even the Trump family itself.<\/p>\n<p>And too bad about the overly trusting donors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kos of The Daily Kos is puzzling over the Trump advertising strategy: Civiqs polled Nevada October 17-20, interviewing 712 likely voters, with a MoE of 5.3%. PRESIDENT 10\/2020 DONALD TRUMP (R-INC) 43 JOE BIDEN (D) 52 Biden is comfortably over 50%, Trump trails way back. A double digit Biden victory \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/23\/youre-too-trusting\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30968,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30964\/revisions\/30968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}