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Big GOP-donors getting nervous about Trump 2020, citing incoherent and chaotic campaign.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/25/trump-2020-campaign-strategy-1179119Late last month, more than 100 major Republican donors gathered at the Trump International Hotel for a presentation from the president’s campaign manager Brad Parscale and other top political hands on their plans to keep the White House in 2020 after a brutal midterm election.
But several of the GOP contributors left the two-day retreat in Washington dissatisfied, dogged by essentially the same concern: The president doesn’t really have a strategy to win reelection.
They are chiefly worried about how he intends to prevail again in the Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016, but where Democrats performed strongly in last year's midterms. But there are also concerns about whether the president's fundraising apparatus is up to the task, and whether Trump will trample on any strategy or message the campaign does develop, as he frequently does.
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“Donors are concerned that the Trump reelect might draw the wrong conclusions from the Republicans' defeat in the 2018 midterms and are stressing to administration sources and the nascent campaign that a more inclusive ... strategy is needed" that reaches beyond the president's core supporters.
Trump’s strategy in the midterms was mostly confined to rallying his base at raucous rallies in states that backed him for president, while largely ignoring moderates and independents.
“There’s a lot of anxiety,” said a longtime Republican donor and friend of Trump. “There isn’t a lot of confidence ... among the donor group, the broader Republican group important to the reelection.”
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Much of the worry about Trump has been about the lack of a big-picture strategist, a Karl Rove or David Axelrod-like figure.
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Another recurring complaint among donors is that Trump often strays from his own strategy. "The problem is the president can’t and won’t stay on message, push an issue in any kind of sustained way, stay out of trouble for more than 5 minutes," said another Republican donor who attended the retreat at the Trump hotel.
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“Donors are asking for the plan and they have no plan,” said an outside adviser close to the campaign. “There’s not a strategy.”
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“There is true reluctance to give because there's no plan or coherent structure to give to,” the Republican fundraiser said. “The campaign is doing really well with small-dollar donations, but it's the high-end contributions [America First] is failing on."
But several of the GOP contributors left the two-day retreat in Washington dissatisfied, dogged by essentially the same concern: The president doesn’t really have a strategy to win reelection.
They are chiefly worried about how he intends to prevail again in the Rust Belt states that voted for Trump in 2016, but where Democrats performed strongly in last year's midterms. But there are also concerns about whether the president's fundraising apparatus is up to the task, and whether Trump will trample on any strategy or message the campaign does develop, as he frequently does.
...
“Donors are concerned that the Trump reelect might draw the wrong conclusions from the Republicans' defeat in the 2018 midterms and are stressing to administration sources and the nascent campaign that a more inclusive ... strategy is needed" that reaches beyond the president's core supporters.
Trump’s strategy in the midterms was mostly confined to rallying his base at raucous rallies in states that backed him for president, while largely ignoring moderates and independents.
“There’s a lot of anxiety,” said a longtime Republican donor and friend of Trump. “There isn’t a lot of confidence ... among the donor group, the broader Republican group important to the reelection.”
...
Much of the worry about Trump has been about the lack of a big-picture strategist, a Karl Rove or David Axelrod-like figure.
...
Another recurring complaint among donors is that Trump often strays from his own strategy. "The problem is the president can’t and won’t stay on message, push an issue in any kind of sustained way, stay out of trouble for more than 5 minutes," said another Republican donor who attended the retreat at the Trump hotel.
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“Donors are asking for the plan and they have no plan,” said an outside adviser close to the campaign. “There’s not a strategy.”
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“There is true reluctance to give because there's no plan or coherent structure to give to,” the Republican fundraiser said. “The campaign is doing really well with small-dollar donations, but it's the high-end contributions [America First] is failing on."
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