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- Time to write off Republican nominee if he can’t change by Labor Day, Wall Street Journal writes
- ”Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign”
- WSJ sees over 200 comments submitted within first hour of piece being published to the WEb
- Trump odds still shorter than 3-1 at 90 percent of online gambling websites
One of the most conservative papers in the US Monday morning will feature an opinion piece demanding that GOP nominee Donald Trump change his act by Labor Day or “write off the nominee as hopeless and focus on salvaging the Senate and House and other down-ballot races”.
The real estate mogul appeared to be responding to the Wall Street Journal piece via Twitter.
I have always been the same person-remain true to self. The media wants me to change but it would be very dishonest to supporters to do so!
“Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign. Mrs. Clinton is the second most unpopular presidential nominee in history—after Mr. Trump. But rather than reassure voters and try to repair his image, the New Yorker has spent the last three weeks giving his critics more ammunition”, the Wall Street Journal opt-in reads.
Over 200 comments were submitted By Wall Street Journal subscribers within the first hour of the piece going up on the Web.
One reader wrote:
Mike Pence could beat Hillary. Trump needs to grow up, stop behaving like an arrested development afflicted child and leave the scene. Pence can win because the country despises Hillary Clinton, knows that she is a pathologically dishonest person and a habitual liar. Republican Party has allowed this opportunity to resurrect a dysfunctional country and economy to slip away by enabling Trump to hijack the narrative for too long.
Shayne John writes:
"Mr. Trump has alienated his party and he isn’t running a competent campaign."
He could have survived the first but not the second. There is no excuse for insulting someone every time he opens his mouth and being outspent in every battleground state, in terms of ground troops and on the airwaves. This is what happens when you get someone who's never run for any office assuming that he knows everything he needs to know about election campaigns. He obviously doesn't
Not everyone was on board with the Wall Street Journal opinion piece. One reader, Warren W. Hurd, writes that he agrees with Trump that it’s media outlets the likes of the Wall Street Journal that are the problem (though the candidate has never really ripped into that paper up to this point, and that certainly could change by Monday morning).
I'm with him. The media bias is for corruption and pay for play. Trump has 80 days to call them out. The media has to revolt to ensure their own survival. Otherwise they will simply be a mouthpiece for the Clinton regime. As an organ of the state most people will tune the media out. Sort of like what I am doing to this editorial. I'm with him.
Trump stepping aside would most likely mean that his running mate John Pence, the current Indiana Governor, would step in to fill the void.
Heading into Monday there were no books offering odds on Pence. That is likely to change soon however.
Trump odds remained under 3-1 at 90 percent of the online gambling websites.
- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com
