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The Rail Splitter

A Weekly Briefing Brought To You By The Lincoln Project

Happy Father’s Day to all! Hope you're having a safe and healthy one with you
and yours.


Today is the first of our Sunday Briefings—our new newsletter where we’ll lay
out what we’re seeing and comment on the issues of the 2020 campaign. 


Onto the show...

Donald Trump’s Campaign is Failing and Flailing


There’s a tired, but true, trope in politics: Campaigns are reflections of
their candidates.

 

In the case of President Donald Trump’s campaign — an organization with all
the resources and money available, but with a candidate who has no clue how to
lead — that reflection is accurate.


Last night, in Tulsa, Trump’s pitiful campaign was on full display. Instead of
a raucous rally in front of a packed house, Trump rambled and lied in front of
thousands of empty seats. Can't imagine that being good for his fragile ego. 


Between the fear of contracting Covid-19, to a clear decline in the
president's enthusiasm, only 6,200 people
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official launch.

 

Given that the venue holds 19,000, Trump’s “silent majority” may well also be
a vocal minority. We’re calling it “The Emptysburgh Address.
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Rather than subject you to all the craziness of the evening, here are the
low-lights of last night's rally:

* Trump spoke for a quarter of an hour
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inability to walk down a ramp. His loudest cheer came when he managed the
'Herculean' task of taking a drink. The definition of what it means to be “tough
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* He admitted that he ordered coronavirus testing slowed
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didn’t like seeing the infection rate increase.
* Proved, once again, his allegiance to the Confederacy when he made sure to
use words like “heritage
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indicate his true feelings. 
So it's no surprise that Fox News released a poll last week showing Joe Biden
up 50%-38%
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One can only assume last night’s performance won’t help those sagging numbers
as we head into this next cycle.


Falling polls aside, last night was a stunning disaster for Trump’s campaign.
Even more stunningly, is know that their cardinal sins were avoidable. 

 

Instead of telling their boss the hard truth, campaign manager, Brad Parscale
and Co. would rather double-down and promise Trump the impossible. 

 

They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars building stages they never used.
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Instead of telling Trump that the BOK Center only seats 19,000 people, they
told him thatmore than one million
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had requested tickets.

 

And, they didn't monitor ticket sales, so were completely caught off guard
when Generation Z took toTikTok
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and signed up for tickets they never planned to use. 

 

Trump's team set unreachable expectations and then prayed to the rally gods
that people would show up. They didn’t. 

Getting Out the Vote


If you’re interested in helping out in a swing state—Arizona, Florida,
Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin—click this link to fill
out our member survey.
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We also have a new podcast, Republicans Defeating Trump. It’s available now on
Apple Podcasts
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,Google Podcasts
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