Say
what you want about Donald Trump, but he has an instinctive knack for
zeroing in on an opponent’s inherent weakness.
With Jeb, it was “low energy.” That term exploited a key perception
problem of Jeb, and one he couldn’t shake. So too did “Little Marco,”
which may have ended not only Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign, but
his political career — it’s a term I just can’t shake from my current
perception of Rubio, and I suspect that a decade from now his political
opponents will be referring to him as Little Marco.
As
to Hillary, Trump went straight for her supposed strength — supporting
women and women’s rights — by zeroing in on Bill Clinton’s serial abuse
of women and Hillary’s silence or connivance.
Now comes Elizabeth Warren, who harshly criticized Trump this week.
Trump’s response zeroes in on Warren’s key perception problem, that she
dishonestly claimed Native American, and specifically Cherokee,
heritage for professional purposes. The research on Warren’s Cherokee
problem is at Elizabeth Warren Wiki.
Trump is quoted by Maureen Dowd in a column at the NY Times, Will Trump
Be Dumped?, responding to Warren’s criticism, as follows:
More heavyweights are
jumping in to stomp Trump, including Elizabeth
Warren. Asked about her jabs, he pounced: “I think it’s wonderful
because the Indians can now partake in the future of the country. She’s
got about as much Indian blood as I have. Her whole life was based on a
fraud. She got into Harvard and all that because she said she was a
minority.”
The comment is getting headlines, including at the Boston Globe, which
did everything it could during the 2012 Senate campaign to cover for
Warren on the issue; and at The Daily Beast. {
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