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The Trump Campaign is Stupid
A week’s worth of boneheaded decisions.
I don’t understand what the Trump campaign is doing. Forget the policies and forget the candidate (although I would be inclined to issue a similar judgement to the individual as well).
Let’s take a look at some of the recent moves by the campaign, and why they make no sense.
1. Idiotic Ad Spending.
The Trump campaign is short on cash, which makes this next bit of news particularly devastating to the incumbent’s chances of reelection. Last month, the New York Times reported that the Trump campaign had spent $800 million of their $1.1 billion raised. As they put it,
“Under Mr. Parscale, more than $350 million — almost half of the $800 million spent — went to fund-raising operations, as no expense was spared in finding new donors online. The campaign assembled a big and well-paid staff and housed the team at a cavernous, well-appointed office in the Virginia suburbs; outsize legal bills were treated as campaign costs; and more than $100 million was spent on a television advertising blitz before the party convention, the point when most of the electorate historically begins to pay close attention to the race.
Among the splashiest and perhaps most questionable purchases was a pair of Super…
