Trump draws thousands of people at events all over the country...he's got a ground game.
Posted on 11/23/2015 11:17:57 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Poll after poll shows that Donald Trump is the candidate to beat for the Republican presidential nomination. But does he have the "ground game" to actually pull it off?
His organization in states early on the GOP primary calendar, at least, suggest he's building the infrastructure that could help him win the nod, analysts say.
Take Iowa and South Carolina. In Iowa, which holds the first caucuses of the 2016 White House race on Feb. 1, the billionaire has 12 paid staff members on the ground. That's reportedly more than anyone except for Jeb Bush, and includes Chuck Laudner, the man behind Rick Santorum's victory in Iowa's GOP caucuses in 2012.
Then there's South Carolina, which is the third contest on the calendar. Trump has two team members there--public-relations executive Ed McMullen and former state House Majority Leader Jim Merrill--that one GOP strategist calls serious organizers who know how to win elections.
Laudner, McMullen and Merrill "are not the guys that carry yard signs in the back of their pickup trucks," says Bruce Haynes, a Republican and founding partner of political consulting firm Purple Strategies. "These are people who know how to generate votes," Haynes, who recently called Trump's campaign infrastructure in early primary states "sizeable and deep," told MarketWatch.
South Carolina's Republican primary is Feb. 20. In the Palmetto State, as elsewhere, the brash businessman is leading rivals in the most recent average of polls. A month ago, strategists and activists in early-voting states including South Carolina told Politico a Trump nomination was looking more likely. One reason they cited: his organization on the ground.
Chip Felkel, a Republican strategist in Greenville, S.C., raises the possibility that Trump may not even need a get-out-the-vote effort.
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WOOHOO TRUMP....ALL THE WAY TO THE OVAL OFFICE!!!
Trump draws thousands of people at events all over the country...he's got a ground game.
I have looked high and low for the other candidates big rallies like this. They are not happening.
From the article above, speaking of South Carolina:
“Trump may not even need a get out the vote effort.”
Now THAT is a piece of news worthy! We need to slam dunk this thing!
The people are with TRUMP and it shows.
These media morons make it sound like Trump is doing all this on the fly and may not have a good strategic plan to win.
I think they are sorely mistaken ..
If ANY ONE of the other candidates had this kind of crowd on a consistent level, it would be called as ‘game over’.....we have our nominee.
Instead they keep playing the ‘Anyone but Trump’ tune over and over.
The media does not report that Trump has a massive ground game going.
Meh, he would not be Trump, a master competititor if he did not.
The guy is on top of things. You have to give him that!
I know, but I keep watching the Trump rallies. Makes me have some hope that it ain’t all over! The people there have so much fun!
I know Donald is rough around the edges, but that is a lot of why I like him!
The Current FReepathon Pays For The Current Quarter's Expenses?
Trump Ping!
Hah, ROTFLMAO! Exactly. Jeb supporters!
Facts:
1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.
2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.
3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.
4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?
5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.
Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America†to them). It really is THAT important.
Management. Good management. Trump knows how to get it done. Go Trump Go.
Okay, now Hillary's FaceBook follower numbers begin to make sense...
Its beginning to look a lot like Trump. :-)
Was it Rush who called him a blue collar billionaire? I love that!
True.
What it looks like, the typical size crowd, for the rest of the presidential field.
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