Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America From Trump--And Democrats From Themselves
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14. “John Bolton Left in Mongolia While Trump Schmoozed in North Korea,” Vanity Fair. n.d. Web. July 1, 2019, www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/john-bolton-mongolia-trump-tucker-carlson-schmoozed-in-north-korea.
15. Garry Kasparov, @Kasparov63, Twitter.com, June 24, 2019, twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/808750564284702720.
16. Martin Matishak and Kyle Cheney, “Senate Intelligence Leaders: Russians Schemed to Help Trump,” Politico, May 16, 2018, politi.co/2rN6N3T.
17. The Federalist Papers No. 10, Avalon.law.yale.edu, n.d., avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed10.asp.
PART 2: THE MYTHS OF 2020
1. Orion Rummler, “Where Each 2020 Democrat Stands on Abolishing the Electoral College,” Axios, April 7, 2019, www.axios.com/electoral-college-2020-presidential-election-candidates-94d89ca6-b402-4de3-ae8e-06139592408e.html.
2. Ryan Bort, “What It Would (Really) Take to Abolish the Electoral College,” Rolling Stone, March 19, 2019, www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/electoral-college-2020-810187.
3. Greg Sargent, “How Democrats Can Defeat Trump and His Ugly Ideas, According to Pete Buttigieg,” Washington Post, March 19, 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/03/19/how-democrats-can-defeat-trump-his-ugly-ideas-according-pete-buttigieg.
4. Pew Research Center, U.S. Politics and Policy, “Public’s 2019 Priorities: Economy, Health Care, Education and Security All Near Top of List,” January 24, 2019, www.people-press.org/2019/01/24/publics-2019-priorities-economy-health-care-education-and-security-all-near-top-of-list.
5. “Cook Partisan Voting Index,” Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, September 7, 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index.
6. William Cummings, “Obama Warns Democrats That Ideological ‘Rigidity’ Can Lead to a ‘Circular Firing Squad,’ ” USA Today, April 8, 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/04/08/2020-election-barack-obama-warns-democrats-circular-firing-squad/3398051002.
7. Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Míriam Juan-Torres, Tim Dixon, “Profiles of the Hidden Tribes,” Hidden Tribes of America project, More in Common, 2018, hiddentribes.us/profiles.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Aaron Blake, “How Trump Wins in 2020: Americans See His Opponent as a ‘Socialist,’ ” Washington Post, July 8, 2019, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/08/how-trump-wins-americans-see-his-opponent-socialist.
13. Neil Newhouse, memorandum, Public Opinion Strategies, February 22, 2019, pos.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/National-POS-poll-Socialism.pdf.
14. Hillary Clinton, press release, June 9, 2008, web.archive.org/web/20080609202817/http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7904.
15. Point Taken–Marist Poll, May 2016, maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/misc/usapolls/us160502/Point%20Taken/Reparations/Exclusive%20Point%20Taken-Marist%20Poll_Reparations%20Banner%201_May%202016.pdf#page=4.
16. Tom Curry, “Young Voters Not Essential to Obama Triumph,” MSNBC.com, November 7, 2008, www.nbcnews.com/id/27582147/ns/politics-decision_08/t/young-voters-not-essential-obama-triumph.
17. Grey Gordon, “Accounting for the Rise in College Tuition,” National Bureau of Economic Research, December 12, 2017, www.nber.org/chapters/c13711.
PART 3: ARMY OF DARKNESS: TRUMP’S WAR MACHINE
1. Alan Rappeport, “How Companies Learned to Stop Fearing Trump’s Twitter Wrath,” New York Times, March 20, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/us/politics/trump-twitter-businesses.html; Neal Rothschild, “Metrics Show Trump’s Tweets Are Losing Their Potency,” Axios, May 26, 2019, www.axios.com/president-trump-tweets-engagement-4c6067a8-734d-4184-984a-d5c9151aa339.html.
2. Jeff Horwitz, “Trump 2020 Working with Ex-Cambridge Analytica Staffers,” AP News, June 15, 2018, apnews.com/96928216bdc341ada659447973a688e4.
3. “The Living Room Candidate—Commercials—1984—Train,” Livingroomcandidate.org, n.d., www.livingroomcandidate.org/commercials/1984.
4. Tamara Keith, “With Voter Data and a Volunteer Army, a Whole New Trump Campaign for 2020,” NPR Politics, June 27, 2019, www.npr.org/2019/06/27/735913950/with-voter-data-and-a-volunteer-army-a-whole-new-trump-campaign-for-2020.
5. Peter Baker and Michael Crowley, “Trump Steps into North Korea and Agrees with Kim Jong-un to Resume Talks,” New York Times, June 30, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/06/30/world/asia/trump-north-korea-dmz.html.
6. Lindsey Graham, @LindseyGrahamSC, Twitter.com, May 3, 2016, twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/727604522156228608.
7. “Leading Cable Networks in the United States in August 2019, by Number of Viewers,” Statista, updated September 2, 2019, www.statista.com/statistics/347040/cable-networks-viewers-usa.
8. Brendan Nyan and Jason Reifler, “When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions,” Dartmouth.edu, July 12, 2011, www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf.
9. Kevin Roose, “Here Come the Fake Videos, Too,” New York Times, March 4, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/technology/fake-videos-deepfakes.html.
10. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (New York: Harper, 1951), 83.
11. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1968), 474.
PART 4: HOW TO LOSE
1. Gallup poll, “Abortion,” February 1, 2019, news.gallup.com/poll/1576/Abortion.aspx.
2. Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter.com, January 31, 2019, twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090967053689937921.
3. John Cassidy, “James Comey’s October Surprise,” The New Yorker, October 28, 2016, www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/james-comeys-october-surprise.
4. Kellyanne Conway, @KellyannePolls, Twitter.com, October 28, 2016, twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/792055185950515200.
5. Azam Ahmed, Katie Rogers, and Jeff Ernst, “How the Migrant Caravan Became a Trump Election Strategy,” New York Times, October 24, 2018, www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/world/americas/migrant-caravan-trump.html.
6. Donald J. Trump, @realDonaldTrump, Twitter.com, October 24, 2018, twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1055065538890735616.
PART 5: HOW TO WIN
1. Jim Rutenberg, “The 2004 Campaign: The President; 90-Day Strategy by Bush’s Aides to Define Kerry,” New York Times, March 20, 2004, www.nytimes.com/2004/03/20/us/the-2004-campaign-the-president-90-day-strategy-by-bush-s-aides-to-define-kerry.html.
2. Rex Crum, “On Facebook, Trump’s Ad Spending Tops Every Democratic Rival,” Mercury News, May 21, 2019, www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/21/on-facebook-trumps-ad-spending-tops-every-democratic-rival.
3. Erika Franklin Fowler, Travis N. Ridout, and Michael M. Franz, “Political Advertising in 2016: The Presidential Election as Outlier?,” The Forum 14, 4 (2017): 445–69, doi.org/10.1515/for-2016-0040.
4. Issie Lapowsky, “Here’s How Facebook Actually Won Trump the Presidency,” Wired, November 15, 2016, www.wired.com/2016/11/facebook-won-trump-election-not-just-fake-news.
5. Maggie Severns, “Dems Prepare 9-Figure Ad Onslaught to Blunt Trump’s Head Start,” Politico, June 16, 2019, politi.co/2WNnYEO.
6. Ibid.
7. Voter Participation Center, “Early Voting by State,” updated August 30, 2019, www.voterparticipation.org/voter-hub/early-voting-by-state.
8. Gary Fineout, “Florida Democrats Get an Early Start on the Legal Battle for 2020,” Politico Florida, May
20, 2019, politi.co/2JqFXKc.
9. Jon Huang, “Election 2016: Exit Polls,” New York Times, November 8, 2016, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/08/us/politics/election-exit-polls.html.
10. C. L. Sulzberger, “New Strategy—a Nuclear Maginot Line?” New York Times, December 23, 1964, www.nytimes.com/1964/12/23/archives/foreign-affairs-new-strategya-nuclear-maginot-line.html.
11. Jim Geraghty, “The Right’s Grifter Problem,” National Review, June 3, 2019, www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/the-real-problem-conservatism-faces-today.
12. Emily Smith, “Trump Campaign Staffers Get into Public Screaming Match,” New York Post, May 19, 2016, pagesix.com/2016/05/19/trump-campaign-staffers-get-into-public-screaming-match.
13. Tina Nguyen, “Trump Buddy David Bossie Accused of Scamming Elderly MAGA Voters,” Vanity Fair, May 6, 2019, www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/david-bossie-donald-trump-fundraising-scam-accusation.
14. Twitter, “(67) Kayleigh McEnany on Twitter: ‘Our @TeamTrump statement on dishonest fundraising groups: “President Trump’s campaign condemns any organization that deceptively uses the President’s name, likeness, trademarks, or branding and confuses voters,” May 7, 2019, twitter.com/i/web/status/1125842657371144197.
15. Maggie Christ and Brendan Fischer, “ ‘Can I Count on You?’ How the Presidential Coalition Has Capitalized on Its Leader’s Ties to the President and Misled Donors,” Campaign Legal Center with Axios, May 5, 2019, campaignlegal.org/document/profiting-proximity-report-presidential-coalitions-misleading-fundraising-practices.
ALSO BY RICK WILSON
Everything Trump Touches Dies
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Wilson is a renowned Republican political strategist, writer, speaker, commentator, and ad-maker. He is editor at large for The Daily Beast and also writes for The Washington Post, Politico, Rolling Stone, the New York Daily News, The Hill, The Bulwark, and The Spectator.
Wilson is the author of the 2018 #1 New York Times bestselling book Everything Trump Touches Dies. Running Against the Devil is his second book.
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