"We promise our greatest GOPe minds at work in leading Mr. Trump to glorious victory!"
Posted on 05/24/2016 5:26:57 AM PDT by huldah1776
The Republican Party is racing to build a presidential campaign for Donald Trump.
The presumptive GOP nominee enters the general election with an organization even thinner than Mitt Romney's four years ago. Trump won the primary by dominating media coverage. He didn't bother to develop a ground game or data analytics program, believing those modern tools overrated.
The Republican National Committee is filling the void.
The party invested more than $100 million, and counting, since 2012 to construct and refine cutting edge voter turnout and digital operations after being outclassed by President Obama. The plan was to create a turnkey operation for the 2016 nominee that could compete with the Democrats.
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The GOP largely succeeded. Yet, despite their advances, the Republicans still find themselves where they didn't want to be (again) at this point in a presidential campaign: Behind.
That's in part because the Trump campaign brings little to the table in the way of field staff and data analysis — and because likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton started ramping up on both fronts more than a year ago.
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Obama had one of the best ground games of recent campaigns.
There have been a number of really good articles on it (can’t copy and paste links from my phone, but they can be googled) and the underlying data systems (Narwal and Catalist) that go into frightening detail on just how good they were. While Romney’s system (ORCA) crashed and burned on Election Day, helping to cost him the presidency.
Trump is playing to win, something Republicans just don’t do. I think he knows the RNC is a bunch of losers and will deal with the accordingly. He’s outsmarted everyone else thus far.
Of course. He overwhelmingly won votes of the minorities, the women, and the dead.
"We promise our greatest GOPe minds at work in leading Mr. Trump to glorious victory!"
The RNC doesn’t care if Trump wins or loses, but they do care about skimming off some of the cash that flows into and out of the Trump campaign.
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Yes, an incredible ground game. He crushed Rommney.
I agree, it’s much ado about nothing. Who cares how many thousands of people Hillary has on her staff for the ground game. The election is in November, not June. What are all of these staff people for? Oh, I forgot, this is the Democrats you speak of. They need do nothing jobs right now. No one (Democrat or Republican) is going door to door getting out the vote in May...
Oh, one other thing, if this is the sign of the vaunted Hillary machine where she can’t put away an old curmudgeon socialist like Bernie Sanders, then I say that’s not much of a machine...
Not true in my county. The delegates appeared as: "John Doe (Candidate)"
Now they can stop pretending they are against him.
OK. I stand corrected.
Ping!
Selected Trump articles on FR, from 12:00 AM to 1:15 PM EDT, 5/24/16:
AP: Hillary dropping gender argument after study shows no one cares –Ed Morrissey
Trump Campaign Plans College Overhaul –AccuracyInAcademia
Latinos Say Clinton Is Dangerous for Immigrants at LA Protest –teleSUR
Hillary Clinton’s Camp Set Up ‘Veterans Against Trump’ Protest –DailyBeast
Must stop now: can’t allow Trump to make election about Bill Clinton [heads exploding] –Salon
Explaining Hillary Clinton's Lost Ground in the Polls –NYT
Dear FReepers, We need a big push in the next week to take our FReepathon over the top!! –Jim Robinson
EU to Use New Powers to Block All Elected ‘Far Right’ Populists –Breitbart
Top three reasons Donald Trump surging in polls right now –YahooFinance
Full List of Organizations that Paid Hillary Clinton 2013-2015 –Tyler Durden
LIVE THREAD: Trump rally Tuesday 5/24, Albuquerque, N.Mex, 7pm MDT –RightSide
How the Deep State’s Cronies Steal From You –Bill Bonner
Gov. Terry McAuliffe under federal investigation for campaign contributions –CNN
Prager: A Response to My Conservative #NeverTrump Friends –Dennis Prager
Trump=> "Some Think" Death of Vince Foster "Absolutely a Murder" –Jim Hoft
Trump Defends Aggressive Tack against Clintons—“I Fight Back the Way I Have to Fight Back" –Jeff Poor
Calculated Deception: Why Middle Class Is in Long Term Decline –Townhall
ABC poll: Trump surge due to massive 36% millennial swing –RedAlert
LGBT group wants Dallas to cut ties with pastor [Trump supporter] –Fox4
North Korean envoy rejects Trump overture to meet leader –Reuters
The RNC is building a campaign for Trump –Wash.Examiner
New Rape PAC to Give Platform to Bill and Hillary's 'Victims' –TruthRevolt.org
NYTimes Front-Page Alarm about Las Vegas Newspaper’s Zionist Owner [NYT slimes Trump supporter] –Algemeiner
Clinton Policies to End Pay Gap Would Just Make It Larger –Michael Barone
Why Trump Might Win – Robert Reich
Fareed Zakaria -vs- Donald Trump Regarding Islam –Sundance
Trump: Hillary Can’t Say She Cares About Women While Importing Radical Refugees to America –Breitbart
Fear of Islam drives proposal to change Samoa's constitution –RadioNewZealand
Robert Reich: Trump's "Anti-Politics" Resonating with Americans –Breitbart
Donald Trump is going to win: Hillary can’t defeat what Trump represents –Salon
Refugees Build Drones: Federally Funded Jobs Program [arming our infiltrators] –DailyCaller
Uh huh. Right.
It’s a trick.
” It’s my belief that the RNC would prefer that Trump lose.”
100%
What would you do if you were Trump in this situation?
Seems to me *he’s* the one who has to seek the loyalty oath, but the trustworthiness of the RNC in this regard isn’t even zero. I think they would be far more likely to be saboteurs. I really don’t know how I would handle this in Trump’s place. I think I would have to set up a series of tests. And I would insist on firing Rove. (That would be one of the tests) They don’t go for it, the cat is out of the bag. I seriously think this is a Trojan horse. Or a chess gambit.
If I were Trump, I would lead them to believe they were helping, but I would have my own people make all final decisions. The RNC brass is voting for Hillary.
Not enough. They would be privy to strategy, they would leak it, they would claim insider status and make up BS they’d claim that Trump said. Or they would resign for random reasons strictly to create the impression that the Trump campaign was in full chaos.
We are talking about people who face the prospect of losing $300K - $2 million - $5 million gigs and who have been warned that “they’ll never work in this town again” should they back Trump. Well, if they could take credit for torpedoing Trump, they could. That’s what IMO they would do. They’d strangle their mothers. And their fathers. Hell, they’d strangle their children. These are people who are not just suckups and traitors, they’re proud of being suckups and traitors.
Is this the same multi-million dollar GOTV program they developed in ‘12 that crashed on election day? That one?
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