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Trump wins over big donors who snubbed him in 2016
HotAir.com ^ | 04/22/2019 | ALEX ISENSTADT

Posted on 04/22/2019 2:02:11 PM PDT by MaxistheBest

Deep-pocketed Republicans who snubbed Donald Trump in 2016 are going all in for him in 2020, throwing their weight behind a newly created fundraising drive that’s expected to dump tens of millions into his reelection coffers.

The effort involves scores of high-powered businessmen, lobbyists and former ambassadors who raised big money for George W. Bush, John McCain and Mitt Romney — and who are now preparing to tap their expansive networks for Trump after rebuffing his first presidential bid.

The project, which is closely modeled after the famed Pioneers network that helped to fuel Bush’s 2000 campaign, is slated to be formally unveiled on May 7, when well-connected Republican fundraisers from around the country descend on Washington for a closed-door event with Trump 2020 aides. Under the plan, which was described by more than a half-dozen party officials, high-performing bundlers who collect at least $25,000 for Trump Victory, a joint Trump 2020-Republican National Committee fundraising vehicle, will earn rewards like invitations to campaign-sponsored retreats, briefings and dinners.

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“There were still a lot of people who were trying to lick their wounds and hadn’t quite gotten over the fact that he had whipped everybody. They were slow to come on board,” said Bailey, who recently left his post as finance chair for a pro-Trump super PAC to take on the new role.

“I’ve had a couple of people that in 2016, they just weren’t on board with candidate Trump at all and they said, ‘Look, Roy, he has won me over. I’m all in,’” he added.

1 posted on 04/22/2019 2:02:11 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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To: MaxistheBest

I wonder what they’ll want in return.


2 posted on 04/22/2019 2:03:46 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: HighSierra5

“I wonder what they’ll want in return.”

I wouldn’t worry too much about that. It doesn’t really matter...President Trump will not be running for reelection in 2024...he can tell them all to take a hike if they try to pressure him too much.


3 posted on 04/22/2019 2:06:45 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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To: MaxistheBest

The opposition going full-bore Socialist does tend to focus the mind.


4 posted on 04/22/2019 2:07:05 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MaxistheBest
An economy that's climbed out of the toilet and well beyond changes a few minds.

I, for one, don't mind a few people getting rich when I am almost making as much as your typical government worker and am still in the private sector.

But some people do.

5 posted on 04/22/2019 2:08:52 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: MaxistheBest

It’s not so much that they’re giving money to Trump. The big thing is that the money will NOT be available to #NeverTrumpers.


6 posted on 04/22/2019 2:09:40 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: MaxistheBest

I’d take their money. And run!


7 posted on 04/22/2019 2:10:47 PM PDT by McGruff
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To: HighSierra5

I wonder what they’ll want in return.

I hope POTUS will tell them that they’ve shown good sense in supporting him but no, no, no, QID PRO QUO! They should have supported him in 2016 to begin with!!


8 posted on 04/22/2019 2:11:12 PM PDT by Dawgreg
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To: HighSierra5
I wonder what they’ll want in return

Access

9 posted on 04/22/2019 2:12:31 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Bingo! There’s nothing like Liz Warren’s plan to throw CEOs in prison and 18 other Dem hopefuls planning to redistribute wealth to focus the mind on writing a check to the President’s campaign...a generous check.


10 posted on 04/22/2019 2:15:03 PM PDT by txrefugee
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I wonder what they’ll want in return.

To keep the socialists from redistributing their wealth.

-PJ

11 posted on 04/22/2019 2:16:35 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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I think a lot of these big money dudes are tired of pouring truck loads of money into losing campaigns (Romney, McCain) like the Bush campaign, that spent $190 million of their money on $3 million consultants and campaign staff that stayed in $2,000 a night hotels rooms and ordered $300 bottles of wine and $120 shots for everyone.

They want to be in that ballroom on election night and get their picture taken next to a WINNER!


12 posted on 04/22/2019 2:17:02 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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This is a good sign, I hope.

If, after seeing the Rat Dems showing their true, ugly colors, people don’t wake up, they are full blown idiots.

Anyone still considering himself/herself a Democrat, is a putrid scum.


13 posted on 04/22/2019 2:18:24 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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14 posted on 04/22/2019 2:22:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

“To keep the socialists from redistributing their wealth.”

Yup...Old Bernie scared the crap out of every free thinking American. And something else tells you the money is solid behind President Trump. The best the never Trumpers have to primary him is Bill Weld. He is a clone of Mueller; a born in solid gold bassinet New England blue blood, world order piece of crap. President Trump will run this guy into the ground and have him falling asleep at the first debate.:)


15 posted on 04/22/2019 2:22:29 PM PDT by MaxistheBest (...)
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He’s going to win over a lot more of them when the Democrat criminals are carted off to jail in handcuffs.


16 posted on 04/22/2019 2:25:07 PM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: HighSierra5

I wonder what they’ll want in return.

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My guess is to survive.

Power players may well have been noticing that the “silent majority” ain’t so quiet anymore and is starting to punch back.


17 posted on 04/22/2019 2:28:43 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: HighSierra5

and what are they currently getting? The swamp hasn’t exactly been drained.


18 posted on 04/22/2019 2:30:51 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Savage Beast

These donors would have been content with a Hillary victory. Trump won them over by NOT locking her up.


19 posted on 04/22/2019 2:31:53 PM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: HighSierra5

I wonder what they’ll want in return.

A continued good environment to do business!


20 posted on 04/22/2019 2:35:09 PM PDT by heshtesh
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