Posted on 12/11/2015 6:03:50 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Donald Trump's Iowa state director Chuck Laudner isn't fazed by how his candidate's proposals are often surrounded by controversy or a Monmouth University poll released this week that has Texas Sen. Ted Cruz ahead of Trump.
Laudner's been in Iowa politics for 30 years serving as the brains behind Rick Santorum's rollercoaster ride to winning the caucus in 2012. He says the Trump campaign in Iowa has no bad days.
"You see the energy in those final closing days or when someone can really grab the heart and soul of the base and the activists of the Republican party. But, I've never seen anything this loud and this sustained from day one," Laudner told ABC News. "It's been incredible and it just has not subsided at all. We jump out of bed everyday with joy because we know every day will be a successful one."
Laudner says he's never seen the intensity and support behind a candidate the way in which Iowans are responding to the political outsider. The first-in-the-nation-caucuses are Feb. 1 and Trump returns to Iowa this evening for a town hall at the state fairgrounds in Des Moines. Trump enjoys taking questions from supporters, but is normally on a stage located in the front of an event. Tonight, he'll be located in the center and Laudner says the campaign invited issue based organizations from ethanol to 2nd amendment groups who will have the opportunity to hear from Trump in the states capital city.
Iowa visits from politicians tend to slow down around the holidays, but Laudner says he's already busy planning the month of January, where Trump and his plane will be seen all over the state.
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The crowd sizes - and the enthusiasm - at Trump’s IA rallies are incredible!!
Folks talk about other candidates ‘ground game’, but Trump has laid an amazing ground game in IA, as well.
We’ll see how the strange caucus method works out, ultimately. It can’t hurt, to lose...and can only help, Trump to win IA.
The actual importance of "winning" a state (by which I mean getting more than fifty percent of the votes) is that the GOP now requires a candidate to get the simple majority of delegates in at least 8 states to be put on the ballot... and the GOP also made it so that 22 of the first 24 primaries were now proportional (decided soon after Rand Paul topped Mitt by 22-6 in Iowa in 2012), and is keeping many candidates in the race, so that it is very very unlikely that any grassroots candidate will have such majorities in more that 1-2 states by the halfway mark. Defaulting to a brokered convention is their fail-safe when the GOPe establishment candidates all fail.
Which hugely works against Cruz and Yeb and Marco, because Trump is leading by so much, the proportion he’ll take from these states will be near total.
Further, I imagine that, in many of the proportional states, a number of delegate votes are reserved to the state's party leadership's discretion and are NOT distributed by the primary vote.
This condition would make it even harder for a grassroots candidate to get a majority of the delegates in at least eight states.
More and more are climbing TRUMP coat tails to fly across AMERICA and view the wide, wide countryside.
Both parties, right and left have no understanding as to what AMERICA wants or what WTP want to see. WE want a man, be it Conservative or liberal...we want some one who is speaking for the AMERICAN BASE. TRUMP manages to project that this is his vision as well. It is not a type, a party, a race, religion, or ethnic....it is the ENTIRE AMERICA. TRUMP speaks for the AMERICAN BASE which is something we’ve not seen in many years. UNITED WE STAND/divided we fall. NOW WHO WISHES TO REMAIN STANDING?
GO TRUMP! GO CRUZ! YOU WIN OR WE LOSE!!
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