The Embarrassment-Averse President Goes All Out To Ensure Smooth Convention

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center on September 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trump is in town to support the re-election campaign for U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) as well as Nevada Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt and candidate for Nevada's 3rd House District Danny Tarkanian and 4th House District Cresent Hardy.
LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center on September 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trump is in town to support the re-election cam... LAS VEGAS, NV - SEPTEMBER 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center on September 20, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Trump is in town to support the re-election campaign for U.S. Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) as well as Nevada Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt and candidate for Nevada's 3rd House District Danny Tarkanian and 4th House District Cresent Hardy. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is taking great pains to ensure that the 2020 Republican convention is devoid of the rebellion that permeated the 2016 event and revealed the schisms in the party.

According to a Monday Politico report, the campaign is getting state party chairs on its side, and has already devoted an entire wing of the operation to convention prep.

Trump allies fear a repeat of Never Trumper protests, or headline-grabbing speeches like Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) in 2016, when he refused to endorse Trump and instead told voters to “vote your conscience.”

Trump’s campaign aides have reportedly taken to the books, studying past conventions to create one as unified and smooth as possible.

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  1. Avatar for tsp tsp says:

    They fear a repeat of Never Trumper protests, or headline-grabbing speeches like Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) in 2016, when he refused to endorse Trump and instead told voters to “vote your conscience.”

    Never fear. GOPers have no conscience. That’s been sucked dry by the Machine.

  2. Here’s hoping all this planning will come to naught due to Mueller!!!

  3. tRump’s running? They’re going full speed ahead as if they have a viable, non-criminal candidate. Lots of money to waste apparently.

  4. “Embarrassment averse” is a curious phrase, especially as a descriptor of DJT.

    He seems to be almost alone in seeking embarrassment and rolling in it the way a Labrador Retriever wallows in the carcass of a rotting possum.

  5. Where are they going to hold it? Stepford?

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