She may have just done it. Kellyanne Conway may have pulled off the miracle Donald Trump's flagging campaign needed.
Conway is a roundly respected GOP pollster, who's a darling of the establishment.
After just two days on the job, Conway, the first woman campaign manager for a major-party presidential candidate, got Donald Trump to make his long-awaited "pivot" to the general election.
And he did it by making an apology...sort of.
Though he didn't actually say, "I'm sorry," The Donald admitted he regretted some of the things he's said, especially if his comments caused anyone pain.
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| "And one thing I can promise you, I will always tell you the truth. And that's future tense, so I'm lying right now." |
He also made another big pitch for inclusiveness, particularly aimed at the African American community where he's polling at 1%.
And indeed there was not one black face visible in his audience.
Critics are writing off Trump's new bigheartedness as pandering to white college graduates. They have been steadily trickling away from Trump.
The theory is that those voters are uncomfortable supporting anyone tinged by racism. Trump's comments were meant to assure them he's not a racist, not to actually get black votes.
But the speech was not typical, even of his other scripted ones. Its overall tone and language were less street-corner Queens and more eloquent and presidential. Some of the language sounded downright feminine.
Someone, and I'm guessing it was Kellyanne, influenced it 'big time'.
Trump stuck to the teleprompter, and he's beginning to improve at it. The big question is, can he stay with it for another 82 days?
One theory is, he doesn't want to.
Glenn Beck, someone I generally disagree with, is posing a plausible explanation.
Beck says Trump's goal is not to be President of the United States, it's to be King...of a new extreme right-wing movement and media dynasty.
Makes sense to me.
And Trump hiring Breitbart News Network's Steve Bannon, simultaneously to Ms. Conway, supports it.
Bannon is arguably the nastiest far-right conspiracy monger in politics. And his Breitbart News is the main influence behind Trump's Muslim ban, while #DeportAllMuslims on Twitter was started by one of Bannon's employees.
Don't be surprised if disgraced ex-FOX chief Roger Ailes and David Pecker of the National Enquirer are part of The Donald's plans.
And this just in--Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign chairman, has resigned.
So does Trump actually want to be President, or King?
If his track record for staying on message is any gauge, we'll know shortly.
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