2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumThe Horrible Humbling of Scott Walker ha ha Trump camp tweeted Thanks to the Wrong Walker!
I really do not think anything will humble Walker.
The Horrible Humbling of Scott Walker https://www.thenation.com/article/the-horrible-humbling-of-scott-walker/
#RNC. ha ha Trump camp tweeted Thanks to the Wrong Walker! #wiright #wiunion
ClevelandUntil Donald Trump got into the 2016 Republican presidential race, Scott Walker was kind of a big deal.
In June, 2015, polls had Walker leading in the race for the Republican presidential nominationand the governor of Wisconsin was leading the field in key primary and caucus states.
But once Trump targeted Walkerin the first of his brutal takedowns of Republican rivalsthe Wisconsinites presidential bid crashed and burned. Quite horribly.
I unequivocally denounce him. Scott Walker on Donald Trump
The horror was not complete until Wednesday night, however, when Walker appeared on the stage of the Republican National Convention that he had hoped would be nominating him this year. Instead of enjoying the accolades, he was embracing the candidacy of the man he once decried and denounced. Unlike Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the movement conservative who refused to compromise with the Trump campaigns demands for partisan obedience (and, in so doing, created some actual political drama), Walker bowed to the new boss of the Grand Old Party. ....................................
.............Walker did his part, endorsing Texas Senator Ted Cruz in the Wisconsin primary and cheering on the last-ditch efforts of the so-called #NeverTrump movement in April and early May.
Walker did not stop there. While Cruz earned Trumps wrath by suggesting that Republicans should vote your conscience in November, Walker decried talk among serious conservatives about backing a third-party contender such as Libertarian Gary Johnson.
Let me be clear: A vote for anyone other than Donald Trump in November is a vote for Hillary Clinton, declared Walker, who not that many months ago was griping about Clinton and Trump as such poor choices.
Translation: Remember all that #NeverTrump talk? Well, #NeverMind.
And what did Scott Walker get in return for his surrender on the third night of his partys convention? A thank-you tweet from the nominee, which was polite enoughexcept for the fact that it tagged the wrong Scott Walker (a television anchor in New Orleans).
Even at a convention where Donald Trump has humbled an entire political party, it will never get any more humbling than that.
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 21, 2016, 11:18 AM - Edit history (1)
That wasn't any more of an accident than the appearance of Michelle Obama's words in Melania Trump's speech or Chris Christie speaking just before national TV coverage began.
rocktivity
riversedge
(70,464 posts)Trump Twitter account thanks wrong Scott Walker
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/donald-trump-wrong-scott-walker-tweet/
By Chris Moody, CNN Senior Digital Correspondent
Updated 10:35 PM ET, Wed July 20, 2016
Donald Trump souvenirs are seen amid preparations for the arrival of visitors and delegates for the Republican National Convention on July 17, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Cleveland (CNN)Donald Trump thanked Scott Walker on Twitter Wednesday -- just not the one he meant to.
Instead of thanking Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker for speaking on his behalf at the Republican National Convention Wednesday, Donald Trump's Twitter account tagged a member of the mainstream media.
In his campaign's tweet thanking Walker, Trump's account accidentally tagged Scott Walker of Louisiana, a news anchor in New Orleans.
............In an interview with CNN earlier this year, Trump social media director Daniel Scavino brushed off mistakes on the candidate's social media account, blaming unnamed "girls" who often take dictation in his New York office.
aidbo
(2,328 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This was deliberate and petty.
Trump is a small, small man.