Trump Team “Frustrated” That He Didn’t Benefit Politically From the Orlando Attack

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There’s a telling — and rather sickening — detail in this Bloomberg article on Trump’s advisers trying to figure out a strategy to overcome Trump’s negative polling; apparently his team was upset and frustrated that he didn’t get a bump in the polls following the mass murder attack in Orlando.

The frustration among Trump’s allies increased after his speech last week in Manchester, N.H., where he responded to the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub. Many in Trump’s inner circle had predicted that he would get a bump in the polls, as he did following the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Instead, he faced a well-orchestrated rapid-response machine from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party, which hammered him for days.

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