What’s he hiding? Donald Trump has blown off nearly his entire remaining campaign schedule
By Daily News Bin | August 27, 2016
When the week began, Donald Trump’s upcoming campaign schedule was chock full of public rallies across several states, as the losing candidate seemed to be at least enjoying the adoration from those in the room as he continued to fall further out of contention. But by week’s end, Trump essentially no longer has a campaign schedule. In fact, apart from a single rally in a state where he’s losing by nineteen points, Donald Trump has blown off literally every public campaign event remaining on his schedule. So what’s going on?
Back when Trump first canceled his scheduled rally in Oregon, it seemed to be a tantrum resulting from a public fallout he had with an influential local hotelier in Portland; he would have had no strategic reason to campaign in the state anyway. When he also abruptly canceled his public rallies in Colorado and Nevada, two swing states where he’s losing and he desperately needs help, some theorized that it was because he was trying to avoid giving his long promised speech clarifying his haphazard and self-contradictory immigration policy. But when his Arizona rally was canceled in a manner which left him denying that it had been canceled, all hell broke loose.
Almost immediately after Trump’s campaign announced that the Arizona event was the latest to get canceled, Trump himself fired back by insisting that it was not only still happening, it was being moved to an unspecified larger venue. But his own staff subsequently confirmed again that there is no Arizona rally, and his official schedule on his website lists no such event.
In fact the only thing remaining on Donald Trump’s campaign schedule at all is a planned rally in Everett, Washington on August 30th. That event makes absolutely no strategic sense, as he’s currently behind Hillary Clinton by nineteen points in the state, and has zero chance of winning any electoral votes there no matter what he does or doesn’t do there.
Yet the Trump campaign has informed local police that they can indeed expect Trump to show up, and that no cancelation is expected. But this comes at a time when Donald and his own campaign can no longer even agree on whether the mythical Arizona event still exists (and according to all the evidence it doesn’t).
So if Trump decides that Washington event is as much of a waste of time as we all know it is, and cancels it, he’ll have literally nothing remaining on his public campaign schedule. That basically means he’s quit. Some have speculated that he may be canceling events in order to prepare for the debates against Hillary Clinton, where he’ll be severely overmatched. But the first debate isn’t for another month, so this explanation doesn’t make sense. The bottom line is that Donald Trump has blown off his entire schedule for reasons that his own campaign appears to be confounded by, and for reasons that he certainly doesn’t want the public to know about. |
