The New York billionaire has slowly begun to add paid staff in a handful of swing states — Wisconsin and Iowa, among them — even as campaign officials concede the presumptive presidential nominee has little desire or capacity to construct the kind of massive national operation that has come to define modern-day White House campaigns.
a.k.a: states that he lost
This is some of the best news I’ve had all day ! —
By contrast, Clinton began placing state-level directors in April, and has such paid campaign staff in at least Colorado, Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
a.k.a: battleground states
The campaign estimates it currently has about 30 paid staff on the ground across the country.
Thirty? Thirty?
It’s increasingly evident that Trump means not to win the White House for himself or the GOP, but to ensure that Clinton does, as conspiracy theory suggests.
In at his rallies the last few weeks he brags about how small his staff is versus Hillary.
(Unintended pun, but I’ll keep it).
Hes winning
That’s what he and his surrogates will tell you.
The thing that he wants to learn the hard way is that opponents will change things up against supposedly invincible foes.
Right now July 1st and 7th are important for lots of reasons.
If there are staffs are in play July 1st, then on to the next problem.
The 7th’s success depends again on whether they are on the same page (congress n trump).
“It would be disingenuous and wrongheaded to take a playbook that has been used over and over again,”
I couldn’t agree more. That playbook has elected some of the worst Presidents in our history.
He’s winning like Charlie Sheen.
Please proceed, Republicans …
He framed a monologue about how he defeated 16 of the modern day. GOP’s best and.brightest. (again a monologue) during.primary season.
Its a cool spiel,but he seems determined to learn the hard way about the weakness of winning streaks.
Who needs a big staff when you’ve got media coverage?
Special thanks to James Fallows at The Atlantic for discovering this. I’m almost certain it’s a satire. Almost.
Trump is attempting to run a campaign exactly 180 degrees out of sync with the way it’s normally done. For at least the last few cycles, the nominee subsidizes the local party operations by sharing staff and facilities. The local parties, who drive the GOTV effort, simply don’t have the financial wherewithal to do that on their own. If Trump tries to run a shoestring operation, he’s going to kill down-ballot efforts.
He’s winning, with 49% against 51% for Hillary. Woohoo for the Trump Train!
Holy Shit, I could eat a pound of magic mushrooms and wash it down with a pint of LSD and not come up with something as crazy as that.
“Flying to Dallas now with @realDonaldTrump…Reports of discord are pure fiction. Great events lined up all over Texas. Rs will win in Nov!” committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted this week.
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He’s going to Texas. Texas. Let that one sink in for a sec. A red state, not a battleground state, and that’s where he’s spending time and money. (also, too - shut up, Rinse.)
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From the looks of it.Trump is basically trying to outsource his campaign operations to the RNC. Contrast that with the Clinton campaign, who are moving their people into leadership positions at the DNC, not to outsource, but to coordinate.
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I remember how people credited Obama with playing “eleven-dimensional chess.” At the rate he’s going, Trump can barely muster up a game of Go Fish.
they’ll be on the same page. unfortunately, it is in aramaic.
That is the outsourcing relationship. That’s three articles in the past 48 hours that all point to the Trump campaign telling the RNC to get bent. And yet, his answer to the fact he has no staff, no data analyatics, no fund raising, no field offices, no ground game is…we are outsourcing it to the RNC, the people we hate.
And really, we can back it up from there just a step. The Trump campaign itself is in the midst of an internal fight…Lendowsky vs. Manafort,and it runs deep all the way to the very bottom, with people on both sides afraid that the other side is bugging their meetings and spying on them. They cannot make any hires because…Lendowski views them as Manfort people or vice versa. Shoot, the fact that one of the high profile causalities of this infighitng got hired by the RNC has lead to accusaitons between the campaign and the RNC.
Meanwhile, while all of this is going down…the most precious commodity that no money can buy, is being squandered…Time. They want to give this time to see where things are at…and by then, it will be far, far too late to make any change (it basically already is now…the race started and Trump is still wandering around in the stands, not even at the starting line).
And I am going to make a semi educated guess on that state of things within the party. If anyone remembers about 5 or 6 weeks ago there was some reporting on the fact that Trump just starting to gather contact information from his rallies…emails, phones…basic stuff.
I am willing to bet that that information…if it exists at all…exists on various pieces of paper in various forms of chicken scratch. Plus another list of emails of people who entered the website…all of these lists completely unconnected, let alone actually analysed.
All of this sort of chaos feeds on itself, too. No data manager in their right mind is going to want to have their name tied to working on this. So, it becomes that much harder to hire anybody good enough to start turning things around…and the longer you don’t hire someone, the harder it becomes, the less likely anyone wants the job…etc, etc, etc.
This is going to be a disaster of epic proportions.
Look, he’s not really a serious candidate. Once you get past that it’s all shameless self-promotion and a 3-ring circus- AND a circular GOP firing squad-
Fact is, he has NO money.