Posted on 05/13/2016 9:59:15 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Candidates’ aides and allies want anti-Trump vendors barred from lucrative general-election contracts.
Donald Trump’s campaign is considering hitting his Republican enemies where it hurts: Their wallets. As Trump moves to work in closer concert with the Republican National Committee apparatus, some campaign aides and allies are pushing him to block lucrative party contracts from consultants who worked to keep him from winning the nomination, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
“The Never Trump vendors and supporters shouldn’t be in striking distance of the RNC, any of its committees or anyone working on behalf of Donald Trump,” said a Trump campaign official.
The blacklist talk — which sources say mostly targets operatives who worked for Never Trump groups, but also some who worked for Trump’s GOP presidential rivals or their supportive super PACs — strikes against a Republican consulting class that Trump has assailed as a pillar of a corrupt political establishment. It’s a sweet bit of turnabout for Trump aides and consultants who in recent months were warned that their work for the anti-establishment billionaire real estate showman could diminish their own career prospects.
If Trump’s team makes good on the blacklist, it could elevate a whole new crop of vendors, while penalizing establishment operatives who attacked him, often in deeply personal terms. But it also could put Trump’s campaign at a competitive disadvantage as it scrambles to quickly beef up capabilities in highly technical campaign tactics that it largely eschewed in the primary, including voter data, direct mail and phone banking. Newly minted presidential nominees typically install staff at their respective parties’ national committees, and have been known to steer contracts to at least some of their favored vendors, which often provokes backlash.
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"If your objective is to kill the king you had better make damn sure you kill the king!"
Trump is just driving everyone Crazy and I’m lov’n it!
Mexican officials are pursuing a counteroffensive to Trump’s incendiary rhetoric, reaching out to U.S. business leaders, looking at ways to better use social media, and even encouraging qualified Mexicans to get U.S. citizenship. But they’re also trying to stay sensitive about taking more high-profile steps, such as running TV ads in an already overheated presidential race that promote Mexico as a friendly, vibrant neighbor and not a cesspool of criminals.
“We think that right now, in this phase where there is an electoral process going on, something that we should really do is stay out of it. An advertising campaign at this particular moment could just add confusion,” José Paulo Carreño King, Mexico’s new undersecretary for North America, said in an interview with POLITICO.
Typical- fair criticism of Trump and the Trumpsters attack on a personal level. Not so much a mystery why the free-a-thon is behind, people don’t feet welcome. Feel proud of yourself
Have you donated?
The #neverTrump idiots is a good list to start from. They blacklisted themselves. Nobody made them do it.
Have you? Last post- leaving FR -
I have.
I donate $100 a quarter.
Good
Your post was confusing to me. The part I did wish to respond to is this:
“makes Trump claims to unite the party disingenuous.”
Donald Trump is not disingenous about uniting the party. What would he have to gain to keep the party fractured? It would bring on a 3rd party run and ruin his bid.
Graham is a queer.You don’t want that sumbitch anywhere around.Google the house he built for his boyfriend.
Goodbye. Good luck. We wish you well.
“They tried the same thing with Trump. Scott Brown was told if he supported Trump his days with the Republican party were numbered. I imagine a lot of people were told to stay away from Trump if they knew what was good for them.’
First step would be to OUT the people who were making the threats! Name them, show their picture and OUT them for public view.
That alone may bring others in line.
"If your objective is to kill the king you had better make damn sure you kill the king!"
Please PLEASE do this, Trump!
“This is really about the money at the RNC,” Trump confidant Roger Stone alleged in a little-noticed online interview this week. “Millions and millions and millions of dollars that Reince and Ryan want to hand out to favored vendors, so they are going to try to game plan Trump. They’re going to try to barter Paul Ryan’s endorsement in return for financial control and autonomy for the RNC, the Republican National Committee. That would be an egregious mistake, in my opinion. But this is part and parcel of the establishment effort to slow down Donald Trump.”
Good. Actions have consequences. They want to be petulant bratty children, they should expect to be treated as such.
The #NeverTrump personnel and consultants should definitely be bared. Especially anything having to do with Rove, Romney, Bush, etc.
I would not go as far as stopping those who helped some Republican opponents like Huckabee, Carson, etc who did not join the #NeverTeump movement.
Curious why you are upset when Trump and his supporters fire back and not at the people who started the war?
http://www.freerepublic.com/~11thcommandment/
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