{"id":556496,"date":"2023-02-25T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-memo-trumps-surprise-a-slightly-conventional-campaign\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T11:00:00","slug":"the-memo-trumps-surprise-a-slightly-conventional-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-trumps-surprise-a-slightly-conventional-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Memo: Trump\u2019s surprise \u2014\u00a0a slightly conventional campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a276680b18fb\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a276680b18fb\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-memo-trumps-surprise-a-slightly-conventional-campaign\/#The_Memo_Trumps_surprise_%E2%80%94_a_slightly_conventional_campaign\" >The Memo: Trump\u2019s surprise \u2014\u00a0a slightly conventional campaign<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Memo_Trumps_surprise_%E2%80%94_a_slightly_conventional_campaign\"><\/span>The Memo: Trump\u2019s surprise \u2014\u00a0a slightly conventional campaign<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/trumpdonald_022223_ap-matt-freed_memo-trump.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President Trump is doing something shocking \u2014 he\u2019s running a campaign that is starting to look quite conventional.<\/p>\n<p>This week alone, Trump has issued several policy proposals. He has announced the hiring of seasoned senior staff in the first-caucus state of Iowa. And he has visited East Palestine, Ohio in the wake of the Feb. 3 train derailment, using the power of his former office to intensify the spotlight on residents \u2014 and on himself.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Altogether, the current tone is quite different from the tumult the American public has been used to since Trump began his first campaign for the White House almost eight years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Trump allies are reveling in the change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople think they know what to expect of Donald Trump in 2024. They are wrong,\u201d said Michael Caputo, a longtime friend and adviser to the former president. \u201cThey recognize the caustic <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> messages, they recognize his tactic of giving a nickname to every competitor. But they ain\u2019t seen nothing yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Caputo and others note the seasoned campaigners who are around the former president from the start this time around, including senior adviser Susie Wiles, renowned for her knowledge of campaigns in Florida in particular, pollster Tony Fabrizio and policy adviser Vince Haley.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has also taken to releasing more detailed proposals than were seen previously, especially during his 2016 seat-of-the-pants campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is currently gathering these ideas under the overall rubric of \u201cAgenda47.\u201d Trump, the 45th president, would also become the 47th president if he won a second term in 2024.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>This month, he has advocated typically hard-line measures to fight crime, to underline his opposition to so-called ESG investing \u2014 the acronym stands for investing which factors in environmental, social and governance concerns \u2014 and to boost American energy.<\/p>\n<p>While there was plenty of Trumpian rhetoric, there were at least some specifics.<\/p>\n<p>On crime, Trump said he would require local police departments in receipt of Department of Justice grants to return to the ultra-controversial stop-and-frisk policies of the past, and to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u201cto arrest and deport criminal aliens.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On ESG, he promised to issue an executive order if reelected that would prohibit the use of such criteria in managing retirement accounts.<\/p>\n<p>On energy, he said he would once again take the United States out of the Paris accords on climate change and \u201crapidly issue <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>rovals for all worthy, energy infrastructure projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The point is less the political rights and wrongs of these proposals than the fact that they are being made at all.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>One open question, of course, is the degree to which Trump\u2019s shift is being driven by the desire to fend off the challenge likely to be posed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has said next to nothing about his 2024 plans but he is widely expected to announce a campaign in the next few months. Polls show him to be clearly Trump\u2019s most serious competitor for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, unlike Trump, still has his hands on the levers of power. He has been using that power to make headline-grabbing announcements with national resonance for conservatives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>On Thursday, DeSantis announced a push for stricter immigration measures in his state, including the mandatory use of E-Verify by private as well as public employers, and a revocation of the right to in-state tuition rates for unauthorized migrants.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis has previously pushed back on a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies, on the grounds that it allegedly put forth too much of a political agenda. And he has successfully asked the Florida Supreme Court to set up a grand jury to look into whether there was malfeasance in the claims made about COVID-19 vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>With all that going on from his likely nemesis, Trump could hardly do nothing on the policy front.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>But the former president has his advantages in other areas too, not least the symbolic heft of the office he held for four years.<\/p>\n<p>He put that to use on Wednesday during his visit to East Palestine, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump accused the Biden administration of \u201cindifference and betrayal\u201d of the people in the small eastern Ohio town. Speaking from behind a lectern adorned with his name, he contended that the people there needed \u201canswers and results\u201d rather than \u201cexcuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The relative decorum of the speech was a marked contrast to how Trump sometimes behaved in office, even in disaster zones. In 2017, visiting Puerto Rico after a hurricane, he famously threw paper towels into the crowd in the manner of a basketball player taking a free throw.<\/p>\n<p>It would be foolish to exaggerate the extent to which Trump has gone conventional, of course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inflammatory rhetoric still goes hand-in-hand with these more modulated moves. He continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged and to minimize the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He will keep blasting away in vicious terms at prosecutors whose probes are targeting him.<\/p>\n<p>The MAGA Trump base, therefore, is in no danger of thinking he has done soft or sold out to the hated \u201cswamp.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But there has been a noticeable shift nonetheless \u2014 one that even Republicans who have been skeptical of Trump can\u2019t help but notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you see,\u201d said Doug Heye, a former communications director for the Republican National Committee, \u201cis somebody who still declares himself the outsider, trying to play very much an insider <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Memo is a reported column by Niall Stanage.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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