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brooklynite

(94,302 posts)
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:21 AM Mar 2019

RNC assembles team to reelect Trump

Source: Politico

The Republican National Committee has finalized its senior staff for the 2020 election cycle with a focus on disrupting the Democratic presidential primary and continuing to build up the party’s field and digital infrastructure, the party told POLITICO.

“Our team will be working hand-in-glove with the Trump campaign to ensure President Trump is re-elected and to grow our Party in 2020,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement on Friday. The RNC leadership team is a mix of internal promotions, outside hires and people staying in their roles from the 2018 cycle.

Michael Ahrens, the RNC’s rapid response director for the 2018 cycle, who brought a “troll the libs” approach to his work, will be promoted to communications director as the party tries to roil the Democratic presidential primary. Mike Reed, the party's research director last cycle who was heavily involved in Elizabeth Warren's 2012 race as research director for the GOP's Senate committee, will be the RNC's Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications.

The RNC and America Rising PAC have worked together to place full-time video trackers for Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina to follow the Democrats vying for the White House. The RNC’s research team, which will be headed by Joe Ascioti, a former assistant research director, is busy creating video libraries and opposition files on every candidate and blasting out potentially damaging snippets.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/01/trump-2020-rnc-1197115

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RNC assembles team to reelect Trump (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 2019 OP
We don't want you to grow your party thegoose Mar 2019 #1
Key Element Missing Roy Rolling Mar 2019 #2
tRump, clearly represents what the majority of republicans are made of ... a dishonest and RKP5637 Mar 2019 #3
CREEPs. tanyev Mar 2019 #4
Wanna bet Republican donors are holding back as they watch how all this plays out. ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2019 #5
Yeah, because it worked so well to hitch your star to Fat Donnie in the midterms. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2019 #6
Love your screen name. Firestorm49 Mar 2019 #9
When I joined DU in 2001, Palm Springs was conservative. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2019 #14
I sure as shit hope that we have strong direction at the helm. Firestorm49 Mar 2019 #7
"We're sticking with our top traitor*." - KGOPee repubes Achilleaze Mar 2019 #8
Or, "RNC Goes 'Full Satan' in it's Deal with the Devil" slumcamper Mar 2019 #10
He will leave RNC in debt and in shambles BostonBlue Mar 2019 #11
"a focus on disrupting the Democratic presidential primary" - well that pretty much says Kashkakat v.2.0 Mar 2019 #12
It's telling they openly admit their main strategy is dirty tricks groundloop Mar 2019 #13
The NSDAP would be pleased to hear that. cstanleytech Mar 2019 #15
When one has no real ideas, and one's accomplishments is little more than a list of failures The Liberal Lion Mar 2019 #16
Putin approved ? duforsure Mar 2019 #17
RNC is the Enemy of the people. nt chowder66 Mar 2019 #18
Yuri, Boris, Svetlana, Dmitri, Olga, Sergei, Vyacheslav..... nightshift worker Mar 2019 #19
GOP CountAllVotes Mar 2019 #20
You know what this means jmowreader Mar 2019 #21
They out on work release? marble falls Mar 2019 #22

Roy Rolling

(6,906 posts)
2. Key Element Missing
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:28 AM
Mar 2019

They'll have to do it without their ex-Finance chairs Michael Cohen and Steve Wynn raising money for them.

RKP5637

(67,084 posts)
3. tRump, clearly represents what the majority of republicans are made of ... a dishonest and
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:31 AM
Mar 2019

reprehensible lying/cheating thug. It's quite saddening to think this is what many Americans want representing the US.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,699 posts)
5. Wanna bet Republican donors are holding back as they watch how all this plays out.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:36 AM
Mar 2019

The Cohen testimony..
The failure in Hanoi.
The Wambler snafu
Overriding concerns about Jared's Security clearance
Over inflating his self worth
Deflating assets in order to avoid paying taxes
The Mueller Investigatiom
The State of New York and SDNY into,everything Trump connected

If things were weighing heavy on a Democrat in Trump's sistuation, you bet your boots I would be withholding monies. Republican donors are hesitant to let go of the big bucks.

6. Yeah, because it worked so well to hitch your star to Fat Donnie in the midterms.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:36 AM
Mar 2019


Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Firestorm49

(4,028 posts)
9. Love your screen name.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:40 AM
Mar 2019

I live in a county with the highest percentage of Republican voters in the country.

Oh, what fun.

14. When I joined DU in 2001, Palm Springs was conservative.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:57 AM
Mar 2019

For example, Sonny Bono was mayor.

In the years between, the old people have died off and a huge liberal population has moved in. One factor driving the shift has been the White Party, an annual gay festival. Come for the party, stay for the art, food and antiques.

P.S. recently had a lesbian mayor. If he were still alive, Sonny'd be looking for another tree to ski into.

I guess what I'm saying is that the city has outgrown my DU nickname. It ought to be "At One Time, The LastLiberal in PalmSprings."

Firestorm49

(4,028 posts)
7. I sure as shit hope that we have strong direction at the helm.
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:38 AM
Mar 2019

This may very well be the most crucial election in the history of America.

Do you think the Republicans are going to diminish foreign cyber influence? The signs are already there. The Republicans have already reduced cyber election security funding to a great extent, which means, they approve. They want to win at any cost, even to the point of allowing Putin to become America’s next Trump.

This better be our “A” game. Too crowded a field of candidates could become a distraction, as we battle with ourselves for who will be the next president. That’s fodder for the other side.

It’s time to move strongly, willingly and with no regret. We’ve learned how the Republicans have built their system so efficiently - local and state judgeships, Supreme Court appointments done as cheesy as they possibly could, restricting voting to the best of their ability, becoming subservient to a tyrant of a president, and on and on.

We need to cull our candidates as soon as possible. We need our very best ground game, and we need the most intellegent people behind the wheel. This is no time to mess up. Plan on the unexpected, move quickly to dissolve the distractions.

slumcamper

(1,604 posts)
10. Or, "RNC Goes 'Full Satan' in it's Deal with the Devil"
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:41 AM
Mar 2019

As a liberal secular humanist it pains me to say it, but god help us.

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
12. "a focus on disrupting the Democratic presidential primary" - well that pretty much says
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:48 AM
Mar 2019

it all. not a very inspiring platform, but sadly one that appeals to a lot of peple.

groundloop

(11,513 posts)
13. It's telling they openly admit their main strategy is dirty tricks
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 11:50 AM
Mar 2019

In a clean, honest, fair election where each side laid out what they support and believe in they'd get slaughtered. SO..... they have to troll the Democratic primary, dig to find any little bit of dirt on our best candidates, and spread lies.

The Liberal Lion

(1,414 posts)
16. When one has no real ideas, and one's accomplishments is little more than a list of failures
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 12:13 PM
Mar 2019

disparaging the other person becomes the last bastion of hope.

duforsure

(11,884 posts)
17. Putin approved ?
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 12:40 PM
Mar 2019

Wonder how many of them will be gone , or fighting to keep out of going to prison before then.

jmowreader

(50,528 posts)
21. You know what this means
Fri Mar 1, 2019, 03:07 PM
Mar 2019

If the GOP has decided to try to disrupt the Democratic presidential primary (and Bernie Sanders will be a BIG part of that), they have given us license to demolish theirs.

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