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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump wants his Super PAC to raise $1 billion for 2020, but no one wants to take the reins. SAD!
Trump recruitment failure sets off alarms over 2020
America First Action is central to the president's billion-dollar campaign plans, but the super PAC is struggling to find someone to take the reins.
Former White House official Nick Ayers had been expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABBY ORR 03/01/2019 05:03 AM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-2020-super-pac-1197066
President Donald Trump wants to raise $1 billion for his reelection. But his top advisers worry that the super PAC at the center of that effort is hurting, lacking a high-wattage leader who can cajole millionaire and billionaire donors to fork over huge sums.
Trump political aides, members of the presidents family and top Republicans have been considering potential candidates to spearhead America First Actions 2020 fundraising efforts. They want someone with deep ties to the president and the clubby world of major GOP donors.
But the nationwide search has so far come up empty. Super PAC organizers at one point came up with a roster of around two dozen names that included Robert Kraft, who was never seriously considered but was quashed anyway after the New England Patriots owner a fixture at the presidents Mar-a-Lago resort was charged with soliciting prostitution. Another person floated for the post was GOP benefactor Kelly Craft, but she was ruled out after being nominated for United Nations ambassador.
Then theres Nick Ayers. A former White House official who is close to many top Republican givers, he had been widely expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. But the 36-year-old Ayers, whos spent the past few months with his family and quail hunting in Georgia, has yet to sign on.
America First Action is central to the president's billion-dollar campaign plans, but the super PAC is struggling to find someone to take the reins.
Former White House official Nick Ayers had been expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo
By ALEX ISENSTADT and GABBY ORR 03/01/2019 05:03 AM EST
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-2020-super-pac-1197066
President Donald Trump wants to raise $1 billion for his reelection. But his top advisers worry that the super PAC at the center of that effort is hurting, lacking a high-wattage leader who can cajole millionaire and billionaire donors to fork over huge sums.
Trump political aides, members of the presidents family and top Republicans have been considering potential candidates to spearhead America First Actions 2020 fundraising efforts. They want someone with deep ties to the president and the clubby world of major GOP donors.
But the nationwide search has so far come up empty. Super PAC organizers at one point came up with a roster of around two dozen names that included Robert Kraft, who was never seriously considered but was quashed anyway after the New England Patriots owner a fixture at the presidents Mar-a-Lago resort was charged with soliciting prostitution. Another person floated for the post was GOP benefactor Kelly Craft, but she was ruled out after being nominated for United Nations ambassador.
Then theres Nick Ayers. A former White House official who is close to many top Republican givers, he had been widely expected to take a senior advisory role with the super PAC after departing the administration late last year. But the 36-year-old Ayers, whos spent the past few months with his family and quail hunting in Georgia, has yet to sign on.
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Trump wants his Super PAC to raise $1 billion for 2020, but no one wants to take the reins. SAD! (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Mar 2019
OP
Well, what about the usual suspects? Broidy - oops scandal, Cohen - oops jail... Kraft - scandal...
lagomorph777
Mar 2019
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Andy823
(11,495 posts)1. Of course wants a billion
He can skim more to that money into his own pocket!
marble falls
(57,077 posts)5. That's how much Putin's going to be charging him for sanctuary.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2. Well, what about the usual suspects? Broidy - oops scandal, Cohen - oops jail... Kraft - scandal...
Hmm this is a bit of a pickle.
dalton99a
(81,455 posts)3. Another money laundering operation for the crime family
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)4. OK, I'll take one for the team
and sign up to do it.
Of course, I'll have to launder a little money for myself off the top, and I'll need to make a Putey Call to Russia to send their money through somebody besides the NRA this time around...
I'll make sure to keep really good records for the SCO as well.
Initech
(100,063 posts)6. I really don't care. Do U?
pecosbob
(7,537 posts)7. Sure...take a job for eighteen months and then face the next ten years in jail