Trump campaign takes steps to prevent a challenge within Republican Party

[TU Curmudgeon]

From The Globe & Mail

Trump campaign takes steps to prevent a challenge within Republican Party
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Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign.

The nascent initiative has been an intense focus in recent weeks and includes taking steps to change state party rules, crowd out potential rivals and quell any early signs of opposition that could embarrass the president.

It is an acknowledgment that Trump, who effectively hijacked the Republican Party in 2016, hasn’t completely cemented his grip on the GOP and, in any event, is not likely to coast to the 2020 GOP nomination without some form of opposition. While any primary challenge would almost certainly be unsuccessful, Trump aides are looking to prevent a repeat of the convention discord that highlighted the electoral weaknesses of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter in their failed re-election campaigns.

To defend against that prospect, Trump’s campaign has deployed what it calls an unprecedented effort to monitor and influence local party operations. It has used endorsements, lobbying and rule changes to increase the likelihood that only loyal Trump activists make it to the Republican nominating convention in August 2020.

COMMENT:-

I just happened to notice that this had escaped the attention of those people of sterling principles who had been decrying "Clinton's Manipulation of the Democratic Nomination Process" and just knew that they would want to express their highly principled moral outrage when the same sort of thing happened again.

Spoiler

Actually, the more probable reaction is going to be "crickets - crickets - crickets - But that's DIFFERENT!!! - crickets - crickets - crickets".

 

[tres borrachos]

From The Globe & Mail

Trump campaign takes steps to prevent a challenge within Republican Party
​

Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign.

The nascent initiative has been an intense focus in recent weeks and includes taking steps to change state party rules, crowd out potential rivals and quell any early signs of opposition that could embarrass the president.

It is an acknowledgment that Trump, who effectively hijacked the Republican Party in 2016, hasn’t completely cemented his grip on the GOP and, in any event, is not likely to coast to the 2020 GOP nomination without some form of opposition. While any primary challenge would almost certainly be unsuccessful, Trump aides are looking to prevent a repeat of the convention discord that highlighted the electoral weaknesses of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter in their failed re-election campaigns.

To defend against that prospect, Trump’s campaign has deployed what it calls an unprecedented effort to monitor and influence local party operations. It has used endorsements, lobbying and rule changes to increase the likelihood that only loyal Trump activists make it to the Republican nominating convention in August 2020.

COMMENT:-

I just happened to notice that this had escaped the attention of those people of sterling principles who had been decrying "Clinton's Manipulation of the Democratic Nomination Process" and just knew that they would want to express their highly principled moral outrage when the same sort of thing happened again.

Spoiler

Actually, the more probable reaction is going to be "crickets - crickets - crickets - But that's DIFFERENT!!! - crickets - crickets - crickets".

I sure as hell hope they do primary him. It's the only chance the GOP has for survival.

 

[Rogue Valley]

I sure as hell hope they do primary him. It's the only chance the GOP has for survival.

The national RNC can't explain why a president “the entire party supports” needs protection from a primary challenge.

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

The national RNC can't explain why a president “the entire party supports” needs protection from a primary challenge.

I did notice that, so far, those "conservatives" who have been excoriating Ms. Clinton and the DNC for "rigging" the Democrat's primary in 2016 have not shown up to either:

1. advance their usual "That's DIFFERENT!!!" line; or
2. roundly condemn "Team Trump" for attempting to "rig" the Republican's 2020 primary.

One does wonder why such "staunch and highly principled" Conservative "defenders of open and honest politics" would be silent about this.

You don't suppose that there is any possibility that the adjectives attached to "Conservative" might be slightly out of line with reality, do you?

 

[Rogue Valley]

I did notice that, so far, those "conservatives" who have been excoriating Ms. Clinton and the DNC for "rigging" the Democrat's primary in 2016 have not shown up to either:

1. advance their usual "That's DIFFERENT!!!" line; or
2. roundly condemn "Team Trump" for attempting to "rig" the Republican's 2020 primary.

One does wonder why such "staunch and highly principled" Conservative "defenders of open and honest politics" would be silent about this.

You don't suppose that there is any possibility that the adjectives attached to "Conservative" might be slightly out of line with reality, do you?

Do as we say, not as we do. Their hypocrisy is overbearing.