Posted on 11/13/2016 4:35:57 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
President-elect Donald Trump should not select Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff, says Michael Savage, the national talk radio host and author of the new book Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country After Obama.
Priebus is “the enemy within,” Savage warns.
“He’s the RNC! Everything the voters rejected,” Savage tells Breitbart News. “He will steer Trump away from every policy we sent him to D.C. to change. He is the enemy within. He is [Paul] Ryan, [Mitch] McConnell, and the Old Guard. They do not want change. ‘Out with the old, in with the new.'”
A close Ryan ally, Priebus was responsible for the GOP “autopsy” following the Romney-Ryan loss of 2012. One of its conclusions held that, to win elections, Republicans must embrace an immigration agenda that would import future voters who tend to overwhelmingly support Democrat policies. The Priebus manifesto argued against opposing amnesty and appealing to the Republican electorate’s “core constituency.”
“We must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform. If we do not, our Party’s appeal will continue to shrink to its core constituencies only,” the Priebus report stated.
By contrast, for years Savage has argued that Republican candidates should run campaigns on “borders, language, and culture.”
“I call him ‘Rinse,'” Savage said of Priebus, adding that’s “what Trump should do with his advice.”
Savage’s talk radio show, which is one of the most listened-to talk radio programs in the country, reaches an audience over 20 million listeners and is syndicated by over some 400 stations nationwide. This week, Savage will be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in the category of Spoken Word On-Air Personality.
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If you plan to take over the GOP, hiring the GOP chairman makes sense to me.
This guy knows all the animals in the swamp and can be replaced after use.
Politics creates alliances built on many reasons.
“So you don’t think Trump is smart enough to figure out how much rinse can be trusted?”
We shall see.
I remember Freepers like you said Trump could never win.
You were wrong then. You are wrong now. And you will be wrong in
the future. Put some lotion on it. It still apparently hurts.
Rinsing Reince out of the RNC means that Trump can put his own person there. How about Kellyanne Conway? Trump will only put up with Priebus as long as he behaves, then he’s out. Really out.
I don’t agree. Trump knows what he’s doing. He’ll be fine. Now’s not the time to ‘punish’ those who didn’t get on the Trump Train. I like Reince and I like it that he’ll draw in the RNC. We won!! We’ll need them.
Do you think Trump’s campaign manager Kellyann Conway, the remarkable woman who guided Trump to victory and was probably more than anyone else responsible with saving our Republic, had a say in helping Trump pick Preibus?
She will have a say in all Trump’s picks for his administration. The final lineup will be right on the money.
My worry isn’t who Trump picks for his crew.
It’s Ryan, Mcconnell, and the rest of the Rino’s.
“The Priebus report” makes it sound like Reince wrote it himself. Come on, he just commissioned a study; he didn’t pick what the people put in it.
So many of you guys are missing the entire point of this move. Trump just neutered the establishment with this move. He just got the entire Republican Party apparatus without any troubles. Now he can put his own people there at the RNC.
Well stated.
If Trump wants him as Chief of Staff, I say "great"!
“Priebus has been a great help to Donald and probably played a bigger role in his big ‘W’ than most people realize.”
I really don’t know that Trump could have won without Priebus and the RNC. He relied almost entirely on the RNC’s GOTV efforts. After 2012 Priebus began restructuring the RNC’s voter info database to better target voters open to supporting Republican candidates. He also worked on improving the RNC’s ground game in the states. This came in handy for Trump.
During the summer, Trump and Priebus decided together this is where the RNC would focus it’s efforts to support Trump (not in ads—regardless of what Hillary wanted people to falsely think). I heard several reports that they were knocking on many more doors and making more phone calls than in 2012. They got out more voters to early vote than usual and they helped Trump overperform his poll numbers. Reince also stood up to the NeverTrumpers and helped bring Cruz in line toward the end, in addition to campaigning with Trump periodically.
I’d call it more like a slobbering love affair not falling all over themselves
2018 midterms will favor us as well, so the future looks bright. I know there are those who don't like Priebus, but the results speak for themselves. And I trust he is smart enough to take a lesson from Trump16 on what works.
Sounds Irish to me. Just a guess though
Does anyone believe that Trump will hesitate to FIRE Reince if he plots with the GOP-E.
Does anyone believe that Trump will hesitate to FIRE Reince if he plots with the GOP-E?
“So you don’t think Trump is smart enough to figure out how much rinse can be trusted?”
We shall see.
OK, got it. You're smart enough to know rinse may be duplicitious, but Trump isn't. Got it.
I predict Savage is 100% correct on this.
Savage was the architect of the Trump message. Period.
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