Posted on 06/21/2016 7:23:46 PM PDT by ifinnegan
3. Lewandowski was ousted as a peace offering to an angry GOP establishment.
The Trump campaign’s increasingly fraught relationship with the Republican Party establishment, particularly the Republican National Committee and top elected leaders, is growing into a serious problem for his campaign. Trump ran as an outsider, in a campaign choreographed in large part by Lewandowski. He spent months attacking the establishment for “rigging” the primaries and delegate selection processes against him.
Even after becoming the nominee, Trump’s attacks continued. As recently as Saturday, Trump continued to claim that he could win the election without the support of the GOP establishment.
Maybe someone he trusts finally sat Trump down and explained reality. His utter lack of a national campaign infrastructure and his apparent inability or unwillingness to do the fundraising that a presidential candidacy requires combine to make him uniquely reliant on the RNC and the goodwill of elected Republicans.
Perhaps getting rid of the guy who was running the show when Trump’s anti GOP rhetoric was at its height is meant as a sign of the long-awaited “pivot” toward a more traditional campaign.
A sign that this might be the best explanation of Lewandowski’s ouster is how the campaign handled it. Trump is famous for firing people and loves to tweet about how someone who has offended him was “fired like a dog.”
Lewandowski, though, was sent packing with a verbal pat on the head from Trump’s communications director, Hope Hicks, who wrote in a statement, “The Donald J. Trump Campaign for President, which has set a historic record in the Republican primary having received almost 14 million votes, has today announced that Corey Lewandowski will no longer be working with the campaign ... "
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I don’t know how this clitoris-nosed effup has made it this long.
That might be the stupidest reason ever given voice to do anything. The GOP establishment is exposed as a paper tiger with no popular support for anything anywhere. Obama has no clothes, the GOP establishment doesn’t even have skin and bones.
I agree with you 100%.
I look at my comment and am surprised I wrote it is a “good” reason.
What I must have meant is that is a reason that makes sense. I don’t know why else they would have done it. It is a good guess as to why they dumped Lewandowski. Not a good reason in itself.
I agree with you, it’s not a good reason at all.
old article, old news
certainly not worthy of Front Page News
at this point, water long past the bridge
Trump actually hasn’t yet officially become the nominee, so the story is pretty loosey-goosey with the facts.
Why are you posting something that is from, and why is this breaking news? This is heresay and untimely.
I am not doing anything.
I posted this weeks ago when Lewandowski got fired.
“WHEN WILL YOU FINALLY BE EJECTED FROM THE FORUM, you freakish asswipe. YOU HAVE NO PLACE HERE. Just effing die.”
Please stop personal irrational attacks.
No thank you.
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