Trump Campaign To Meet With RNC Today In Florida

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus answers questions from The Associated Press about Thursday’s face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at RNC headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2016. With the GOP both energized and torn over Trump’s rise, Trump and Ryan pledged to work together despite their differences, though the speaker stopped short of a full-throated endorsement.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus answers questions from The Associated Press about Thursday’s face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, and Speake... Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus answers questions from The Associated Press about Thursday’s face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump, the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., at RNC headquarters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, May 13, 2016. With the GOP both energized and torn over Trump’s rise, Trump and Ryan pledged to work together despite their differences, though the speaker stopped short of a full-throated endorsement. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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Campaign staffers for Donald Trump are expected to meet with senior officials at the Republican National Committee on Friday in Orlando after a tumultuous few weeks that have seen the Republican nominee fall behind in the polls.

One Republican operative who works with the campaign told Politico that the sit-down would be a “come-to-Jesus” moment for RNC officials who have been unable to keep their unwieldy candidate in line.

The Trump campaign dismissed that categorization, insisting it was a regularly scheduled meeting between the nominee and party officials.

“This is a typical meeting,” senior advisor Karen Giorno, who is attending the meeting in Trump’s place, told Politico. “There’s no consternation. These are meetings we’re having in the battleground states to get it all going. We keep seeing these reports that there’s a rift between Reince [Priebus] and the boss and it’s just false.”

Those reports were fueled this week by an open letter 70 Republicans planned to send to Priebus urging him to shift resources away from Trump and toward House and Senate races instead.

The RNC has provided much of the campaign infrastructure for Trump in key battleground states, where his team neglected to set up its own get-out-the-vote efforts.

Trump has maintained that his popularity with supporters is all he needs to win in November, even as his poll numbers have sank in traditionally Republican states including Iowa and Utah.

“I don’t know that we need to get out the vote,” he said in a Thursday interview on Fox News. “I think people that really want to vote, they’re gonna just get up and vote for Trump.”

Trump also dismissed the request made in the open letter, saying the RNC was only able to raise funds because he was the head of the party.

“I’m the one raising that’s funding [sic], I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised,” he said.

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  1. Sharks are reported to be gathering off-shore in anticipation of the bloodshed.

  2. Yaaawwwn.

    Notify me if Trump shoots Reince Priebus in the head, beats the corpse with a tire iron and afterwards claims that it was just sarcasm.

  3. Avatar for dv01 dv01 says:

    Meh. I’m sure we’ll get a quote about how “united” everyone is and that Trump really didn’t mean whatever he said today because Trump.

  4. In the middle of the discussion, Trump looks out the window: “squirrel!!”

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