Jesus. Does anyone on this campaign team actually speak to each other? https://t.co/Vu7Y0IpdKo
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 21, 2016
It looks like Trump co-chair Rep. Chris Collins from New York is a little out of touch with what’s happening with the campaign.
While on CNN this morning, Collins attempted to insulate his guy from the fallout over Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement at the convention last night, reportedly saying that team Trump hadn’t seen Cruz’s speech in advance:
New York Rep. Chris Collins, Trump co-chair, just said on CNN that the Trump campaign never saw Ted Cruz's speech…
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) July 21, 2016
(Collins just added that the Trump team got Cruz's speech just in time to put it in the teleprompter, but didn't have enough time to vet.)
— Matt Lewis (@mattklewis) July 21, 2016
Wrong talking point, guy. As we told you, Donald Trump already admitted to seeing the speech and tweeted that the non-endorsement was “no big deal!”
Wow, Ted Cruz got booed off the stage, didn't honor the pledge! I saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. No big deal!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 21, 2016
It seems what the campaign wants the story be today is that Trump was the bigger man and Cruz was being “a baby that happens to be a sore loser”:
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— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) July 21, 2016
We get that Rep. Collins was trying to help Trump, but what he said actually made the campaign look pretty bad:
So the defense is the Trump campaign is incompetent and didn't do what every campaign should in vetting the speech? https://t.co/WmIYYrejN7
— Evan Siegfried (@evansiegfried) July 21, 2016
And this does show that Trump’s surrogate operation still needs some work as it gets ready to battle Hillary Clinton:
Did no one tell surrogates Manafort admitted last night they did get it? https://t.co/JxvPYCMzii
— Eddie Vale (@evale72) July 21, 2016
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