Wow. Such violent imagery by the journ-o-list.
I think Trump is anticipating a massive voter-donation trend, where people who typically never gave to a Presidential campaign...are fired-up enough to give $200 to Trump’s campaign. Up until this last 2016 episode....I had never donated to a campaign. In that election, I fired off a fifty bucks with my brother matching that. If he runs again, I’ll probably up my donation to $200.
If the GOP is smart and just says they are only participating in forty out of the fifty states....giving up on California, Hawaii, etc...then they can stretch the budget and go further.
Are you going to handcuff yourself to the Titanic? Gotta love the NeverTrump drama queens.
Unless voter fraud is addressed and significantly reduced, a streamlined campaign will be meaningless.
The Communist/DNC Party will stop at nothing to insure their victory and final step to overthrow & destroy America,
Everyone can vote. Everyone can donate some amount. How about getting districts to compete with each other? Which districts support President Trump the most? Or maybe something similar?
Poorest contributor? Richest? Most toothless contributor? Fattest? Skinniest? Most fit? Ugly? Pretty? Short? Tall? Man? Woman? People who work in offices? People who work outdoors? Steel workers? Fast food workers? Farmers?
I’m serious. Could we show the U.S.A. the Party that will work for everyone and show it in new ways—even humorous?
Theme? Freedom! Anti-slavery! Busy! Smart! All kinds of individuals from all walks of life getting wealthier, one in each ad!
This is polemic, not a news article.
I also wonder why anyone from the campaign or RNC talks to Politico.
If this were being done by a candidate I didn’t support I’d say they were just being cheap.
It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party...
First, He got the idea from Hillary who did it behind the scenes, while he's being upfront about it.
Second, where do I sign up?
only because it occurs in Jan to Aopril 2020, how is Trump controlling the Census?
The chairman of our Republican Committee in WNC is one of the hardest working women on the Trump campaign.....along with her husband.....I have ever known.....
....and I have been politically aware and volunteering for a long time
She inspires all of us to do our best and do it right!....I count it an honor in being a worker bee in her group!
Now is the time to gear up for 2020....( actually it’s already started)
This is a serious problem and, if possible, this "merger" should not take place. I do not expect a serious primary challenge to Trump, although Kasich or someone else may mount a futile dog-in-the-manger protest campaign. As a legal matter, however, Trump will not be the Republican nominee until after the primaries. By longstanding tradition, the RNC defers to the preference of an incumbent Republican president in selecting its chairman. The president's pick effectively runs the organization. But the merger should not be official until it is ratified by the voters.
Remember, this essentially is what Hillary Clinton did with the DNC in 2016. It was bad business then. It is bad business now. The national committees should preserve their formal independence. For one thing, they are concerned with gubernatorial, Senatorial, and congressional races as well as the presidential contest. But more importantly, they are the entities that nominate the candidate, and that should be a fair process. As a practical matter, Trump wants to control the machinery of the RNC because he never built a real Trump organization in the states in 2016. Organizationally it was the RNC that did all the heavy lifting and carried Trump across the finish line. Trump flew around the country giving rallies. Post-primaries, it was Priebus and the national GOTV effort that got him elected.
Good for him. God knows we need him in the worst way.
He can start by shutting the government down to build the wall or his reelection will be toast
The goal is to create a single, seamless organization that moves quickly, saves resources, and — perhaps most crucially — minimizes staff overlap and the kind of infighting that marked the 2016 relationship between the Trump campaign and the party.
Folks, The rats are gong to destroy our wealth, we may as well spend it on Trump.
the act of formally tying the president’s reelection campaign to the resource-rich national party will make it only harder for would-be Republican opponents to mount a bid.
Carr another long-term RNC swamp rat.
Sigh.
Perhaps FReepers could help by providing a media outlet that provides balanced reporting. Reliable Reality comes to mind for a name.