attended the Romney brain trust’s June retreat in Utah says the campaign plans to unleash The Don- ald in Rust Belt swing states where non-college-de- greed whites are eminently persuadable: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Win any three of those states and Romney can start sizing new drapes for the Oval Offi ce. With all the talk of reaching out to minority voters,
Romney’s electoral success may be determined by winning over the white, non-college-educated vote. Reagan won the majority of these so-called “Reagan Democrats,” but today that group has declined from 61 percent of the U.S. population to around 39 per- cent, according to National Journal. This has Romney’s adviser up late at night strat-
egizing: They need to win two-thirds of these voters to defeat Obama. And Trump, based on his celebri- ty, personal magnetism, and the positive aspiration brand he off ers, seems to gel with this group of voters. Woody Johnson, the New York Jets owner and
longtime Trump friend who also is serving as Rom- ney’s New York tri-state campaign-fi nance chair- man, tells Newsmax that the Romney campaign, which has been widely criticized for its alliance with the real estate titan, knows precisely what it is doing.
“Donald Trump is not only a great surrogate and fun- draiser for the campaign,” says Johnson, “but he has particular resonance with the swing voters who mat- ter in this election.” According to sources close to Trump, his own in-
ternal polling confi rms the Newsmax-JZ Analytics fi ndings: Trump’s appeal is strongest to the mas- sive constituency of non-college-educated whites whom Obama and Romney have both been unable to eff ectively woo on their own. It is no accident that Trump’s robo calls on Romney’s behalf in Michigan were directed at working-class neighborhoods rather than upscale Republican enclaves. A longtime friend who urged Trump to toss his hat in the GOP ring during the primaries describes
A Day in the Life of The Donald E
ach morning at 5 o’clock, the alarm goes off on Donald Trump’s
bedside table on the 68th floor of Trump Tower. Dressed in a T-shirt and
boxer shorts, The Donald carefully slips out of bed so as not to wake his
wife, Melania. He puts on a terrycloth robe and pads to his nearby den. “The first thing I do every
morning,” he says, “is read four papers — The New York Times, the New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Miami Herald. I read with a scissors in hand and cut out articles and make notations on the clippings for my staff to follow up on.”
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breakfasted and dressed. “Sometimes I
wear a suit from my own clothing line,” he says, “and sometimes I wear Brioni. The people at Brioni give me all my suits and ties for free in exchange for my wearing
them on Celebrity Apprentice.” A private elevator whisks him down to his of ice on the 26th
floor, where he starts making calls to his staff all across the country. “I tell people to expect calls from me at any time of the day or night,” he says. The next few hours are devoted to
paperwork — financial statements, profit and loss accounts, and a thick sheaf of press
By 7 a.m., he’s
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