Originally Posted by
sundance435
I get that, and I agree to an extent, but he was the first to push the boat into uncharted waters and I'm worried that there is a limit with certain voters he needs to retain AND get out to vote. I have no particular love for DJT, but the alternative is terrifying. Appealing to the base and making the dems own the radical positions of many of their ranks is one thing, but I have a hard time seeing any upside to his tweets about the four. He should be owning them on policy, especially immigration, and he's not. Sometimes ad hominem attacks work for him, but this was not the time. The optics of the rally in NC only magnify it.
He needs to pivot soon into a semblance of a normal presidential figure like he did in the campaign. It's unlikely that whomever the (D)'s choose will have the unfavorables of HRC that balanced his out, which I don't think you can discount for his victory in '16. No one cared that he was insulting HRC because a majority of people couldn't stand her - he's not likely to have the same advantage this time. 50,000 votes over 3 states is about as narrow as you can possibly get.
The thing is, he HAS to win Florida and Ohio just to get an electoral map that's plausible. Then he HAS to win PA or MI and WI, or WI and flip a handful of states. I think his path is narrower this time.