Posted on 05/13/2016 9:59:15 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Candidates’ aides and allies want anti-Trump vendors barred from lucrative general-election contracts.
Donald Trump’s campaign is considering hitting his Republican enemies where it hurts: Their wallets. As Trump moves to work in closer concert with the Republican National Committee apparatus, some campaign aides and allies are pushing him to block lucrative party contracts from consultants who worked to keep him from winning the nomination, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
“The Never Trump vendors and supporters shouldn’t be in striking distance of the RNC, any of its committees or anyone working on behalf of Donald Trump,” said a Trump campaign official.
The blacklist talk — which sources say mostly targets operatives who worked for Never Trump groups, but also some who worked for Trump’s GOP presidential rivals or their supportive super PACs — strikes against a Republican consulting class that Trump has assailed as a pillar of a corrupt political establishment. It’s a sweet bit of turnabout for Trump aides and consultants who in recent months were warned that their work for the anti-establishment billionaire real estate showman could diminish their own career prospects.
If Trump’s team makes good on the blacklist, it could elevate a whole new crop of vendors, while penalizing establishment operatives who attacked him, often in deeply personal terms. But it also could put Trump’s campaign at a competitive disadvantage as it scrambles to quickly beef up capabilities in highly technical campaign tactics that it largely eschewed in the primary, including voter data, direct mail and phone banking. Newly minted presidential nominees typically install staff at their respective parties’ national committees, and have been known to steer contracts to at least some of their favored vendors, which often provokes backlash.
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We are witnessing and living in very interesting times folks.
The sort of mature and intellectual response we have come to know on FR.
Beautiful!!!
Yup!
Ping!
Selected Trump articles on FR, from 12:00 AM to 2:30 PM EDT, 5/13/16:
Facebook’s Zuckerberg Denies Bias, Wants to Meet ‘Leading Conservatives’ –Breitbart
Trump taps climate change skeptic, fracking advocate as key energy advisor –Reuters
Trump campaign eyes #NeverTrump blacklist –Politico
Fearing Trump, some Democrats up pressure on Sanders to exit –TorontoGlobe&Mail
Trump says Washington Post owner Bezos has 'huge antitrust problem' –FoxNews
Trump takes on Amazon –Politico
Former SEAL: ‘If Hillary Is the CIC, 1/2 the Military Is Gonna Get Out –Breitbart
Persuasion: Trump supporters more attractive than Clinton supporters –Scott Adams
Op-ed: For proof Trump is a good dad, look at his daughter –Fox (video)
Sessions: 2016 a Choice between Nationalism and ‘Soulless Globalism’ –Breitbart
Donald Trump on His Tax Rate: ‘It’s None of Your Business’ –NYT
Obama Floats Biden.Warren POTUS/VP Ticket Through Biden Comments (vanity)
FRIDAY 13th FReepathon (HIT IT) LUCKY FReepin' DONOR DAY! –onyx
Gravis Poll: Latino/Hispanic voters went for TRUMP 55% to Hillary 45% –Twitter
National Polling [1,574 RVs (not LVs) Trump 49 Clinton 51, May 10] –OAN/Gravis
Trump's women problem –CNN
Humans Are Lousy at Predicting Rare Events. Exhibit A: Donald Trump –NYT
Trump apology tour – 'Who's sorry now?' –LowellSun
Bill Kristol: Republican Party’s ‘Unification Means Capitulation’ to Trump –Pam Key
Probe catches agency in corrupt deals to help Syrian refugees –WND
George Clooney uses Cannes Film Festival to denounce The Donald –DailyMail
Donald Trump Is Weighing Newt Gingrich for Vice President –Time
Ted Cruz Blames Fox News For Donald Trump’s Rise –HuffPo
Ted Cruz poised to challenge Trump in Texas –Kyle Cheney
Add “entire country of Mexico” to the list.
There’s an implied message here, as well, to fence sitting GOP Congress critters. “The time to decide if you’re for me or against me is rapidly nearing an end. Choose wisely.”
Love it.
A very good idea But instead of keeping your enemies closer send them into oblivion.
LOL
You might enjoy this post #71.
Good ! I hope Mark Bezos is on it .
AND George Soros And the heads of MoveOn & Media Matters & ANSWER.
I would love to see ‘ a great roundup ‘ of these anti American cretins take place.
As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
What goes around; comes around.
Karma will get you...eventually. Sometimes sooner rather than later.
Go!! Mr. Trump - WTP are on the trail with you, some good shots, some not so good, but we will be there to assist in hunting down the pack.
Let the a$$-ki$$ing begin!
Put MORE Butt Hurt Cream on it.
What you applied wasn’t near enough.
You and other purist will end up getting what you always get.
Nothing.
You should get out of the way with your whining and moaning.
The rest of us will carry the load to beat Hillary.
My congressman’s a nevertrumper.
I’ll be voting against him in the primary.
If he wins the primary (he probably will), I’ll be voting third-party in the General.
LOL. Butt Hurt Form. Ha.
That form has been in a lot of demand lately.
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