Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration and co-opts the government...
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Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration, and co-opts the government, to bolster his...
The president has employed an all-hands-on-deck approach to maintaining office, dispatching aides to act as surrogates and using the governments machinery to boost his campaign.
washingtonpost.com
4:14 PM · Oct 31, 2020
Trailing in the polls, Trump enlists his administration and co-opts the government to bolster his reelection
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-election-ethics/2020/10/31/46fb0948-1b19-11eb-82db-60b15c874105_story.html
In the final days of the 2020 election season, President Trump has featured his White House press secretary as a star at his campaign rallies, where she has triumphantly joined him onstage.
Trumps daughter Ivanka, a senior White House adviser, has stumped for him and on Saturday posted a stylized photo with uniformed law enforcement officers in Wisconsin, a key battleground.
His top aides, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser Robert OBrien, have found pressing official business in a number of swing states, traveling there on taxpayer money.
And Trump is considering shifting his election night viewing party from the Trump International Hotel to the White House a move that could help him skirt the local D.C. governments coronavirus restrictions while also overriding long-standing norms from both political parties to refrain from overt campaigning at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
For months, Trump has obliterated the lines between campaigning and governing, and he and his aides have accelerated their drive to leverage the power of the presidency to shore up his election chances with days left before Tuesdays vote. Trailing in the polls to Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Trump has employed an all-hands-on-deck approach to maintaining the office, dispatching aides to act as surrogates and using the governments machinery to bolster his campaign.
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