Trump is leaving DC for another campaign rally, this time in Florida. This is after his campaign stop in South Carolina while visiting Boeing.
It’s unclear why he’s campaigning for a position he’s already won. When asked, Sean Spicer only said the rally is being run by the campaign, and not the White House.
So why is the campaign still a thing? There’s nobody who has to vote for him soon. (Or against, for that matter.) The most common press response is that Trump simply likes to have cheering crowds around him better than he likes being President. That’s probably true, as far as it goes.
I just heard an interesting thought (this from Maria Teresa Kumar, President of “Vote Latino”). Trump knows his power base are his fanatically dedicated voters. He needs to keep them happy and loyal. They’re who he was talking with at his surreal press conference today, and its unabashedly anti-truth, red-meat politics.
Ms Kumar’s point was that Trump needs to keep the sitting Republicans scared. In many highly gerrymandered districts, many Republican Congressmen are only vulnerable to challenges from the right: the Tea Party Trump side. He wants them too scared to vote against him. It makes the Florida Rally more understandable.
Still, I wonder if the Trump campaign is still soliciting and accepting money?
