From the August 21 edition of CBS' Face the Nation:
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EZRA KLEIN: Donald Trump is starting in a pretty big hole, and one thing about presidential campaigns, after you’ve been campaigning at this level of media exposure for a year or more, is that people's opinions of you are pretty set. It doesn't mean nobody will come back but it is more than a speech. It is more than a weekend. It is more than a three or four or five day stretch of not making news for saying something horrible to change people’s opinion of you. But something to what Ben [Domenech] said, I think is important. The Donald Trump pitch is that he will hire the best people -- he will find the best people, he will manage them, he will bring the competencies of an executive from the business class to run an organization effectively. I think one real problem for him, in the campaign chaos, is he's not being able to show that pitch. He's not hiring the best people. He’s getting very inexperienced people. He’s not being able to run a stable organization. He’s not running an effective organization. He's a media celebrity and he’s running like one. But in terms of the idea that we needed a businessman, he's showing that he doesn't actually have those skills.
