* It's official. The unthinkable, according to the status quo earlier in the campaign, Donald Trump is the Republican Nominee

* Although many wrote him off as a candidate, I never did; I always said he was being underestimated

* I believed his message would resonate given how horrible the economy actually is and what is really happening beneath the headlines

* Everybody was proclaiming recovery and that we're on the right track and I knew that that wasn't the case

* I knew there would be a lot of dissatisfaction among the electorate on both sides of the aisle

* Even after Donald Trump locked up the Republican nomination, everybody was still writing him off

* The idea was, "He's going to lose in a landslide"

* Republican establishment said, "Abandon ship!", distancing themselves from Trump to maintain the House and the Senate, writing off the White House

* Maybe run against Hillary in 4 years

* That was the general consensus

* Again, I kept saying the the media and the political establishment on both sides were underestimating Donald Trump and the potential appeal of a Trump presidency

* I think that the speech he gave at the convention really proves that point

* I thought his speech was brilliant.

* When I say brilliant, I don't necessarily agree with everything he said; I clearly don't

* I'm talking about the political perspective

* Was this an effective speech to set the tone of the campaign?

* In that respect, I think he hit the ball out of the park

* The most clever thing about his speech is he didn't go after the Republicans

* He went after the Democrats

* He went after their base; their core constituency

* He is bringing the fight to their turf

* He went for the women, he went for the minorities

* Not just African Americans and Latinos, but the LGBTQ and the blue collar workers

* Donald Trump did not go after the entrepreneur

* He didn't promise to get government off your back and free up the businessman from red tape

* That's a typical Republican acceptance speech

* He said, "I'm going to be the champion of the little guy."

* The downtrodden, the forgotten voter

* "I'm your guy! The system has been rigged against you and because I have been part of the problem, I'm the only one who can deliver the solution"

* I think this is a very powerful strategy

* Because the Democrats have been taking their constituency for granted

* What Donald Trump says is, "Why are you blindly supporting the Democratic nominee?"

* What have they done for you? Nothing.

* He will bring up the shocking statistics that have been getting worse under 7 years of Barack Obama

* The horrible unemployment in the African American community

* The inner city crime

* The government dependency.  The despair.

* Why are African Americans handing their votes to a Democrat?

* The Democrats have let them down and failed them

* Donald Trump will say, "I won't do that.  Trust me."

* "I will deliver on the broken promises of generations of Democrats."

* What about women?

* Instead of denying the gender gap, he just accepted it.


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