Posted on 12/09/2018 5:21:59 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Trump's relationship with his chief of staff has reached a stalemate and is no longer seen as tenable by either party as the two have stopped speaking in recent days.
Trump has begun to envy the smoothly operating vice president's office, which Ayers has managed to keep distanced from the daily scrum and scandal of the White House. Ayers has cultivated key allies, including Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. He also boasts an impressive track record in Republican politics that could serve the President well in the run-up to his 2020 re-election.
But Ayers' meteoric rise has also earned him his fair share of critics, including a few inside the White House. While plans were floated in November for Ayers to become the new chief of staff, multiple sources told CNN, they stalled amid the President's reluctance to fire Kelly -- who typically does the firing for Trump -- and the backbiting Ayers has faced from some of his West Wing colleagues. Several of Trump's top advisers have voiced concerns to him about Ayers, with some threatening to quit if he is tapped for the job. One of Ayers' top West Wing detractors during the process has been Kellyanne Conway, the combative counselor to the President who vehemently opposed Ayers' hire as Pence's chief of staff last year, two former White House officials and a source familiar with the matter said.
Conway disputes those allegations, telling CNN: "I have zero beef with Nick Ayers."
Outside the White House, former colleagues of Ayers say his relative youth and outsized ego -- conspicuous even in a world known for naked ambition and self-aggrandizement -- have rubbed fellow political operatives the wrong way. His allies say that people are just jealous or insecure.
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VP Pence doesn't tweet at 3 AM.
Because Pence is asleep by 8 PM.
Trump could use some advice from us that elected him.
He seems to get most of his advice from a crowd who's only downside in life is taking their billions and flying to Switzerland; while we have to live in a soon to be 3d world country.
Feeling snotty this morning, are you?
Roger Stone is of course very much Roger Stoney, but he is smart, knows the politics game, and is totally loyal to Trump. He tried to sound the alarm back in the transition that “personnel is policy” and that Trump was making a grievous error in bringing in all the GOPe globalist Establishment types, as Javanka were recommending, as opposed to actual MAGA loyalists.
Clearly, despite Trump’s regularly asking Stone for advice, he opted to have his ear filled with the wrong voices on that very critical count.
And I expect Trump wants to hear from me about as much as I want to read your snark.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nick-ayers-trump-new-chief-of-staff/2018/12/09/id/893704/
Ayers notched his first political win at age 19, when he left college to join Sonny Perdue’s successful gubernatorial campaign in Georgia.
Perdue, now Trump’s agriculture secretary and a key link to his rural supporters, introduced Ayers to his future wife, Jamie Floyd, a second cousin of Perdue. The Ayers are parents to five-year-old triplets.
Ayers went on to work with other Republican governors, and overhauled the Republican Governors Association (RGA) when he ran it from 2007 to 2010, boosting the group’s coffers and making it more politically powerful.
Bill Palatucci, a national committee official of the Republican Party and senior advisor to former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, credits Ayers’ work at the RGA with helping Christie get elected in an overwhelmingly liberal state.
“His strategic skills are unsurpassed,” Palatucci said. “He understands both the policy and politics of the big issues.”
As a political consultant, Ayers became wealthy, his White House financial disclosure forms show.
He divested ownership of his previous company, C5 Creative, after he entered the government, a sale valued between $5 million and $25 million, and he also holds valuable farmland in Georgia worth between $1.5 million and $11 million.
A string of wins was broken in 2012, when he managed the short-lived presidential campaign of Tim Pawlenty, a former Republican governor of Minnesota.
Pence tapped Ayers to help him with his 2016 Indiana gubernatorial reelection, and kept him on as adviser when he became Trump’s vice presidential running mate.
After the campaign, Ayers helped found America First Policies, a combative political group that advocates for Trump’s policies.
Ayers, an evangelical Christian, has developed a close relationship with Trump during his time as Pence’s chief of staff. A rare flashpoint came in April, when Pence upset Trump by hiring an aide who had been deemed a “Never Trumper” - a term that describes anti-Trump Republicans. Two days later, the aide was gone.
Ayers was not a universally popular candidate among other White House staff.
Some Trump advisers argued against elevating him out of concern that he might not necessarily have the president’s best interests at heart, given his loyalty to Pence and lack of personal history with Trump himself.
Trump was told directly about these concerns, one source said
Other advisers, however, have told Trump that Ayers’ political experience would come in handy as Trump embarks on his re-election campaign, strategically choosing what events Trump should attend and how much time he should spend campaigning. Kelly’s inexperience on matters of politics had been glaringly obvious to Trump, officials said.
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Looks like ascendancy of Ayers would be ascendency of The Perdue Boys... and GA? What do Georgians know of him?
I’m not familiar with him. Will ask around.
When they just make thing up they always use the same old lame line.
multiple sources told CNN.................................
But Jared & Ivanka are allies of his...................
I’m not crazy about these two and don’t trust their likes/dislikes.
Two critical things for the next Chief of Staff.
1. The energy to keep up with President Trump.
2. The ability to say no to those not on the Trump train.
I’ve read articles that have said the biggest beef there is concerning General Kelly is the fact that he cuts off Jared/Ivanka’s access to the President. He wants it that anything concerning the People’s business goes through him and Jared/Ivanka don’t like that.
Personally, I’m with General Kelly on this one and I understand that Ivanka is the Presidents daughter (and she’s hot), but I don’t exactly trust Jared and Ivanka’s judgement in matters political.
11 to 54 million. an “(ex) serial investor” who owns farmland in Georgia.
This guy would be another bad idea. Too green, too much of a showboat. I have to say I hate to say taht I’m doubting Trump’s judgement in selecting people. He is beginning to appear overwhelmed.
thanx for the background.
I see potential there now.
“This guy would be another bad idea. “
Agreed. Too young and wet behind the ears. I would much prefer a Marine Gunnery Sergeant...an R Lee Ermey type if you wll..or a couple of stars in that slot.
Pence is the most conservative figure in the White House and Trump knows it. Without Pence and Ayers the Trump ship will sink and what remains of his agenda with it...
Baloney.
This is who Mike Establishment Pence really is:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/pences-love-affair-with-immigration-reform
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I'm not sure where you got the idea that Kellyanne is bummed about Ayers except for in this article, but if you read it completely it goes on to say, "Conway disputes those allegations, telling CNN:
"I have zero beef with Nick Ayers."
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LOL ......
THAT was a freak-out when I saw that in the news way back when.
The next two years for Trump will resemble the last two years of Reagan. He won’t survive with people like Kelly. The general doesn’t have the stomach for the battle that’s coming. The judicial agenda is the legacy that Trump is building and the only thing that really matters to him. Everything else can be overturned in one election cycle. True conservative values will see Trump thru the next two years. He needs warriors who will stand in the face of what is about to happen.
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