A Telling Moment: Trump's Re-Election Plans

Ben Carson says Trump knows he won't get many black votes "the first time around."

by Rod D. Martin
August 23, 2016

This is interesting, but not for the reason you think.

Ben Carson says Trump knows he won't get many black votes "the first time around." So why is he going after them?

Because he means to win them the second time. As in, re-election.

So let's consider that tidbit in another light. I keep being told that Trump isn't running "for real", that all of this is collusion with Hillary, or that he's hoping to set up a newer, bigger Apprentice, or even a network with Ailes, or something. I've been hearing this since more than a year ago, with a certain drop-out date of next Tuesday every time.

No, people: he's running to win. You can't have it both ways: he either has the biggest ego on the planet or he doesn't, and you say the former, so guess what? There's nothing Hillary can give him that he would want, or that he can't take for himself.

He's running. And he means to run again.

So the real point to me isn't this effort at a realignment (though I've been writing abou…