Posted on 11/14/2022 5:40:08 PM PST by conservative98
A trio of longtime Republican operatives will lead Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, which the former president is set to announce Tuesday evening in the ballroom of his private Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., according to five people familiar with the staffing decisions.
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The top advisers include Chris LaCivita, a longtime Republican strategist who is directing a super PAC tied to Trump, and Susie Wiles, a Florida-based political consultant who helped Trump win the state in his previous two presidential bids and has led his political operation for the past 18 months.
LaCivita is expected to take the leading role, but practically speaking duties will likely be split between him and Wiles, a top campaign adviser said. The group of top advisers also includes Brian Jack, who served as a senior political aide in the White House and has advised Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) since 2021.
A spokesman did not respond to phone calls seeking comment. Taylor Budowich, Trump’s current spokesman, will move to leading an outside super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc.
Trump — who on Truth Social on Monday wrote that he hopes Tuesday will be “one of the most important days in the history of our country” — is building an operation full of familiar faces with whom the former president, long distrustful of Washington insiders, is comfortable.
The former president has told aides he is eager for this campaign to resemble his 2016 effort, the top campaign adviser said.
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Wiles — the daughter of the late football player and television sportscaster Pat Summerall — helped lead Trump’s Florida team to victory in 2016 and 2020. She is a polite yet steely grandmother who has managed to command the respect of Trump’s fractious orbit and speaks frequently with Trump, having led his PAC for the past year. Trump has told others he trusts her political instincts after she helped him win Florida twice. She has deep ties in Florida politics, and an acrimonious relationship with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), a potential Trump foe in 2024. She ran DeSantis’s campaign in 2018 for governor and has previously worked for Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida.
LaCivita, a Virginia-based political consultant, helped lead the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth campaign against John F. Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. During the 2020 campaign, he ran Preserve America PAC — a group that spent over $100 million to support Trump and was funded almost entirely by entities linked to Sheldon Adelson, the late Las Vegas casino magnate.
More recently, in 2022, LaCivita worked on the successful reelection campaign for Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and served as the senior strategist for the Trump-backed outside group, Make America Great Again Inc., which can raise unlimited sums of money.
We’ll see how long they last before either getting fired or quitting in utter frustration.
Is it too soon to sign up for the 2024 Doomer Team?
Compared with 2020, the 2024 bid is expected to have a smaller staff and budget, advisers say, as Trump has complained that his 2020 campaign had too many people and spent too much money. He often told people that he did not even know what some of the people on his last campaign did.
The new campaign is expected to be based in South Florida, advisers say, instead of having a Washington presence.
Trump has told others he wants to re-create the underdog vibe of the 2016 campaign. He faces a range of challenges
Who in Trump’s circle is spilling the beans to the press? Is it Melania? There is a story in NYPost saying Ivanka refuses to be on stage with Trump if and when he announces. Someone close is talking
Sounds like they are giving out this info on purpose.
I’m not reading the fledgling NY Post at the moment because they have gone NUTSO NeverTrump.
just in case:
https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/trump-begging-jared-ivanka-to-join-him-for-campaign-launch-sources/
I just read the post, it is not so much that they don’t want to appear on stage with Trump. It says they don’t want to get into DC politics again. Their choice. It is a totally understandable decision.
Or crazy. Didn’t Trump’s pollster and data guru go off the deep end in 2020?
Trump’s a fighter but he’s not going to win by doing what he’s done in 2020 and 2022. Can he grow up and win over an electorate who is exhausted over him at this point?
Trump still has FU money to allow independence from the DS [unlike DeSantis].
Let the 757 carry legal ballots about the US....
Worry about your state. You and your state are an embarrassment.
What they reject is Trump and what they want is an “anbody but Trump” coronation. So they smear and defame. I’ve been here for 24 years too. Lots of absurd comments here lately that is destroying the site whether you know it or not.
no way do I want any talk of running for office UNTIL the election fraud is admitted to, charged, prosecuted, and then hung......
we needed Trump last year and we need him NOW.....
I do not want to see any announcements unless its that buyden and his ilk are arrested and jailed.
Hey, I did my part, worked on statewide campaign team, and delivered my county and region to the Republican ticket by a wide margin. But I have control over fraudulent mail-in ballots or Philly and Pittsburgh.
So you can shove it.
"But I have NO control over fraudulent mail-in ballots or Philly and Pittsburgh."
We shall see won’t we.
2012-01-10 What was your handle prior to this one? We are
about the same time on this forum. I signed on 10-13-1998
under this handle, deport.
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