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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Holy cow, would I love this !!!!
Reward your friends and punish your enemies.
Trump’s operatives are taking over the RNC.
They tried the same thing with Trump. Scott Brown was told if he supported Trump his days with the Republican party were numbered. I imagine a lot of people were told to stay away from Trump if they knew what was good for them.
It would give Trump much more control over the convention. It just makes sense to prefer those who understand his vision.
Good.
Keeping the weasels out of the hen house is just common sense. It makes sense in this case. It makes sense in carefully vetting any Muslims who come to this country.
Mike Levin will such anger!
His audience better glue their hair on!
PAYBACK IS A BITCH!!
Good! Payback SHOULD BE a bitch!!
“Take the oil”
If your objective is to kill the king you had better make damn sure you kill the king...............................
Soooooo.... they are opposed to Trump because of their principles. And they want to make money working for him?
Retarded.
Would you trust someone like that? They deeply hope you fail while they enrich themselves from you? That’s a definition of a parasite.
You can bet that some of those #NeverTrumpers are lying their butts off right now, trying to get close enough to mount some effective sabotage.
Dance with the guy who brought you
They should make such a list so that they know who to be wary of.
They shouldn’t publicize it. There is no point in making enemies into even stronger enemies. And you never know, they might just need a few weasels, as long as they know what they are.
I don’t think I have enough popcorn for this.
LOL!
Awesome. Good move.
They told Christie the same thing.
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