Trump swallows GOP for 2020

The unique structure of the president's re-election campaign is an expression of his hold on the party.

President Donald Trump is considering deploying an unprecedented structure for his reelection for 2020, a simplified organization that integrates the Republican National Committee and the President's Campaign into one entity.

This is from a brutal expression of Trump's hold on the Republican party: traditionally, a presidential reelection This committee worked in tandem with the party's national committee and did not

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Under the plan that has been in preparation for several years The eks, the Trump re-election campaign and the RNC will merge their fundraising and fundraising programs. lands in a common organization called Trump Victory. The two teams will also share offices rather than operating in separate buildings, as was customary.

The goal is to create a single, transparent organization that evolves rapidly, saves resources and, perhaps most importantly, minimizes duplication. and the kind of infighting that marked the 2016 relationship between the Trump campaign and the party. As Democrats vie for elections, Republicans are waiting to gain organizational advantage.

There is also another benefit: if we talk about a major challenge to Trump, simply linking the president's re-election campaign to the national, resource-rich party will only make it more difficult. "We are going to rationalize this presidential campaign as no presidential campaign has been simplified before," said Chris Carr, an experienced party strategist who has been called to serve as the country's political director. Trump's reelection effort.

RNC President Ronna McDaniel described the campaign as "the largest, most effective, and most effective campaign in American history."

While many senior party officials recognize the potential of the arrangement, they also privately acknowledge the political risk of so closely linking the party apparatus to the president at a time when he is increasingly under political pressure. and legal.

"Some people choose, for whatever reason, to handcuff themselves to the Titanic," said John Weaver, adviser to Ohio Governor John Kasich, who plans to challenge Trump in the Republican primary. "Why, I have no idea."

Planning accelerated in the weeks following the Republican Party's mid-point bombing – a defeat, the GOP leaders admit – that foreshadowed a treacherous presidential election. Last Thursday, a group of senior Trump political advisers huddled in an indefinable office building, Rosslyn, Virginia, where will be the focus of the 2020 operation. The group, which included McDaniel and the Campaign director, Brad Parscale, discussed how the vehicle will be organized and financed and how it expects it to work.

Discussions are underway as to who will oversee field efforts in key states. During a recent meeting of senior party officials at GOP headquarters, at Capitol Hill, Carr screened the names of Trump and the 2016 RNC staff members in DRC state on a screen . The members of the group discussed which of these former collaborators could return for the 2020 campaign and they threw out the names of other people who might be worth contacting.

And last week, Carr was found in a Courtyard hotel in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, DC, for a series of face-to-face meetings with directors from the state of the battlefield of the RNC for 2018, another hiring group likely to become the core of a field effort in 2020.

The formal talks are expected to begin in January and the first recruitments should take place early next year.

By merging the Trump campaign and the RNC's field programs, party officials hope to avoid the tensions that hindered the efforts of 2016. In one notable case, Trump's Florida organizers fought fiercely against members of the committee who had been sent to that state – a dispute that resulted in a late reshuffle of personnel on the battlefield, of paramount importance.

In other key states like Michigan. party officials recalled the confusion between the two sides as to the planning of the rallies and the demonstrations of the exit of the vote.

Carr, who convened a task force to examine how the field program should be structured in each target state. He issued an after action report on the mid-term events of 2018. He stated that he was familiar with past outbreaks.

"The problem is that you hire people to play the same role and with the same titles, and that one Most of the time, there is friction between the teams," he said. .

This configuration contrasts sharply with previous Republican presidential offers, which were divided between official campaigns and the national committee. Veterans of George W. Bush's effort in 2004 – viewed as a model for the operation of re-election campaigns – recall isolated instances of tension with the RNC.

"My field experience has been very consistent over the course of three presidential campaigns, but it is always preferable that chains of command be unified," said Scott Jennings a long-time Republican strategist. who worked on the offers of George W. Bush and Mitt Romney White House. "It improves efficiency and avoids rivalries about the identity of the organization in which the organization is located."

Party officials are currently discussing funding for the organization. device and fundraisers. Trump's assistants are looking for high-income, low-income programs and bundling programs, and say the president could return to the donor circuit in the coming months.

While he faces increasing pressure from the special council and at the will of a large group of investigations led by House Democrats, Trump regularly receives updates on his reelection campaign. Parscale spent much of Friday at the White House.

Despite all the chaos surrounding the administration, those involved in the campaign insist that they have no problem finding people interested in jobs.

"I am awash with resumes not only of agents, but also of people willing to volunteer. Said Carr. "We will not miss people with a good resume, that's for sure."