Trump campaign turns infomercial
Two weeks out and Trump shifts his focus back to his real job – real estate.
10/26/16 05:05 AM EDT
MIAMI — Donald Trump has less than two weeks left in his presidential
campaign, but his closing argument sounds as much about his business
interests
as his electoral ones.
As Hillary Clinton and her surrogates fan out across the battleground
states, Trump’s schedule has found plenty of room for self-promotion
that seems
aimed well past Nov. 8, including two stops in two days promoting his
hotels and the soft launch of what many see as the prototype for a
post-campaign Trump TV.
On Monday, Trump’s campaign launched a nightly Facebook live news
program — on the heels of a report that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
had spoken with a
top industry dealmaker about setting up a Trump network.
On Tuesday, Trump summoned the press corps to one of his Florida
properties and lavished praise on it. “One of the great places on
earth,” he crowed.
On Wednesday, he returns — for the fourth time this presidential cycle —
to his new Washington, D.C., hotel for what his campaign has billed as a
“ribbon-cutting”
to celebrate its grand opening.
“Politics is a side hobby for Trump, kind of like fishing or model
railroading. Hotels, that’s serious business, and I hear the hotel is
fabulous,” said Curt Anderson,
a top Republican strategist. “Which of his aides would like to take
credit for scheduling this trip to D.C.? Is no one able to stand up to
this guy? No one at all?”
Never before has a businessman-turned-politician gotten so close to the
White House by leveraging his private success and apparent management
prowess
into a compelling outsider's case to run the country. And never before
has a presidential campaign looked so much like an infomercial.
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