Posted on 05/24/2016 5:26:57 AM PDT by huldah1776
The Republican Party is racing to build a presidential campaign for Donald Trump.
The presumptive GOP nominee enters the general election with an organization even thinner than Mitt Romney's four years ago. Trump won the primary by dominating media coverage. He didn't bother to develop a ground game or data analytics program, believing those modern tools overrated.
The Republican National Committee is filling the void.
The party invested more than $100 million, and counting, since 2012 to construct and refine cutting edge voter turnout and digital operations after being outclassed by President Obama. The plan was to create a turnkey operation for the 2016 nominee that could compete with the Democrats.
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The GOP largely succeeded. Yet, despite their advances, the Republicans still find themselves where they didn't want to be (again) at this point in a presidential campaign: Behind.
That's in part because the Trump campaign brings little to the table in the way of field staff and data analysis — and because likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton started ramping up on both fronts more than a year ago.
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Mr. Trump should not depend upon the RNC, run by
Rove and Bishop RomneyCARE who despise him and the
American People greatly, and have shown it in
2008, and 2012, and 2014.
The RNC must be replaced by his own people
because they will backstab Mr. Trump. It is their way.
Trump has to be really, really, really careful with this. It’s my belief that the RNC would prefer that Trump lose. This presents a serious conundrum. If the RNC gets behind Trump, it’s only the whole world that will notice that they have rejected him at each and every turn so far. Now they like him.
This is very tricky.
Agree. Trump has been successful; the RNC has not.
He doesn’t need those losers running anything for him. They are like termites who will destroy the host structure.
yeah, i’m not sure if this is positive news or negative news
Oh yes
Also, the lack of a ground game so far, in regards to the Trump campaign, has been overstated. They have always had some, at least since after Iowa, and it will be ramping up after Memorial Day.
Trump needs to remember: this “help” is coming from the same people who have stabbed their own base in the back again and again. They are weasels that have ulterior motives and you just can’t trust them. Beware of those bearing “gifts”.
I don't want to see Trump get hooked in with anything establishment.
The moral of this story...
. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp “Why?” Replies the scorpion: “Its my nature”
Whenever its the RNC, think negative. What reason is there to think otherwise? ;)
If Trump really wants to drive deeper wooden steak into the shedevil beast chances he outta suggest to fox that he would take hitlerys spot to debate Sanders. That would absolutely bring all of Sanders voters to him after the Dnc stabs Sanders in the back. I think it would be a brilliant move!
I’m reminded of the night he won every precinct in every county in five states. Dude has a ground game. He just doesn’t talk about it.
The Democrats definitely have their GOTV machine well-oiled and this year will be no exception despite the lack of an inspirational candidate.
Republicans pretty much have to fend for themselves in getting to the polling places and if they have nobody to vote for, many of them stay away. This year, Trump has a chance to bring out the millions who have stayed home in years past. Not sure if a huge GOTV effort is required here as conservatives are basically self-reliant and will get themselves to the polls - provided they feel they have a candidate to vote for.
Trump has done pretty well during the primaries with minimum infrastructure. More primary votes than any other GOP candidate before him.
They also did incredibly well getting their delegates elected in PA and WV (where the delegates are on the ballot by name without the name of the candidate they support). That wasn’t luck.
The RNC will campaign Mr. Trump right into the looser’s circle.
Trump will need the RNC to develop the ground game. The RNC needs Trump for the ground game because of their down ballot candidates. It’s a win-win for both to cooperate. When they talk about the ground game, they are talking about folks like myself who are willing to volunteer at call centers, make phone calls etc... The ground game is the setting up of those call centers, the campaign headquarters where you can get signs and the get out the vote operations on election day.
I don’t think it means much that you don’t have that all organized right now. It is the end of May after all and the election is not until November about five months away. Yes, people like us are paying close attention to this election, but the fact of the matter is that most of the people that the ground game will reach are not even going to be paying attention for many more months. Probably not until September or October. They have time to get this thing ramped up.
DON’T TRUST THEM, DONALD!!!!!
Yes, large numbers of the people under the ground voted for him.
I really don’t know what I would do in this situation. But guess what? I suspect *he* does.
This article seems pretty stupid to me.
The RNC invested heavily in a data-driven turnout system that could go toe to toe with Narwal/Catalist (the Dem systems). It was intended to be turn-key; handed off to the eventual 2016 nominee. The system got a good trial run in 2014 and has been improved based on that and is seemingly ready to go.
Trump didn’t need such a system to win the nomination. So he didn’t invest in building one. He now has a field tested system that’s going to be handed to him for the general election.
But the complaint here seems to be that Trump didn’t build his own system.
Which would be completely redundant, less mature and tested than the RNC system.
I don’t see what the issue really is here, other than Trump making a really good business decision on where he needed to invest his own money and where he didn’t need to.
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