<u+2018>steve   star<u+2019> posted at 9:03   




joshua green and sasha issenberg have a new piece out today for bloomberg politics that sure to make a few waves today. 




for the article, green and issenberg were given access to the trump campaign<u+2019>s data operation, which has been likened to a <u+201c>political death star<u+201d>: my takeaway from this @joshuagreen / @sissenberg joint: steve   star https://t.co/kx7spmadqz 




<u+2014> blake hounshell (@blakehounshell) october 27, 2016 




this is actually a startling level of access, right? especially with <u+201c>12 days to go.<u+201d> this seems like trump has allowed dems to see his actual playbook and what he<u+2019>s going to do in these final days: 1. @sissenberg + i got exclusive access for our new @bw cover, <u+201c>inside the trump bunker, with 12 days to go<u+201d> https://t.co/sw0stqxrep 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 2. trump camp shared strategy, polling, ads, fundraising + showed off secret data ops, code-named <u+201c>project alamo<u+201d> https://t.co/sw0stqxrep 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




trump<u+2019>s son-in-law jared kushner has emerged as a huge player in all of this: 3. led by kushner, trump team drew data from rnc, cambridge, fb to make alamo small-donor money machine w/list of 12 million names, but<u+2026> 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




but trump knows he<u+2019>s behind: 4. trump campaign<u+2019>s own internal election models show results <u+201c>similar to<u+201d> nate silvers <u+2014> i.e. they know they<u+2019>re losing badly. single digits 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




team trump does see a path to victory, however, with targeted negative ads: 5. they<u+2019>ve id<u+2019>d 13.5 million persuadable voters in 16 battleground states + say they think they can still win <u+2014> but not by going positive. 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




this is the quote we<u+2019>ll be hearing on every cable network today: <u+201c>we have three major voter-suppression operations under way<u+201d>: 6. trump advisor: <u+201c>we have three major voter-suppression operations under way,<u+201d> including one targeting african-american voters: pic.twitter.com/oz6uggowal 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




the campaign intends to use targeted facebook ads to reach these folks, and by their own words, suppress the vote: 7. so trump camp is targeted facebook "dark posts" at dem-leaning, but infrequent black voters to discourage them into staying home. 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




green and issenberg go on to speculate on the future of trump tv, arguing that what the trump campaign has built fits perfectly into a new media launch of some sort: 8. another takeaway from our story is possible plan for future trump tv network. trump's spending campaign $ to build massive support list. 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 9. he'll have 12-14 million emails, 2.5 million donors + because paid for with campaign funds, he'll own it <u+2014> a future audience for trumptv 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 10. bannon, on the record: "this is the pipe that makes the connection btwn trump + the people<u+2026>connects him to an ever-expanding audience" 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




trump tv is being compared to a u.s version of britain<u+2019>s ukip party: 11. if trump loses, here's nightmare gop scenario: he merges with bannon to start a political-media movement, an american ukip. sound crazy? 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 12. breitbart's london editor, raheem kassam, just quit to run for leader of ukip. his slogan: "make ukip great again." 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




according to the article, the idea for trump tv started as a sort of threat to roger ailes because of what trump thought was negative coverage, but it<u+2019>s morphed into something more realistic: 13. from the piece: "trump tv" was kushner's idea, posed as a threat to roger ailes during primaries when trump was unhappy w/fox coverage 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 14. but idea has taken off, and five media companies have expressed interest pic.twitter.com/yod5xhcyly 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 15. bottom line: trump ain't walkin away empty-handed, has grifted gop + donors to build list worth as much as $112 million that he now owns 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




here<u+2019>s the kicker <u+2014> the rnc helped build it: oh, i should add that the rnc also played a big role in all this <u+2013>> pic.twitter.com/ryusrjz4sw 




<u+2014> joshua green (@joshuagreen) october 27, 2016 




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