GOP Donors Worried That Trump Has No Plan Or Discipline For 2020

TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump speaks during a rally in El Paso, Texas on February 11, 2019. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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In late January, many Republican donors left a presentation by the Trump reelection campaign anxious and unassuaged: many felt that the campaign had not learned from the 2018 midterms and that the President lacked a strategy and the personal discipline to win in 2020.

According to a Monday Politico report, they also worry that Trump has no plan to win back areas in the Rust Belt that swung to Democrats during the midterms and that his fundraising machinery will be insufficient. Many of them believe that he can’t rely solely on small donors and his personal wealth this go around, and will need supporters with big pockets to get him over the finish line.

Some donors are also fretting because Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, has little experience in running a presidential campaign.

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  1. Well, he had no plan or discipline in '16, and that didn’t slow them down then.

  2. Avatar for wvng wvng says:

    Instructive that they are not worried about the damage he is doing to the country and the world.

  3. Oh, he has a plan, most of the campaign contributions will end up in his pocket. He undoubtedly thinks he can rely on the MSM and Twitter for free publicity. Let’s hope he doesn’t last that long.

  4. Avatar for eglot eglot says:

    Well, it’s not like the writing was on the wall. Trump hasn’t changed since day 1. Now all of sudden the GOP is “concerned”?

  5. He has a plan. It involves vlad, facebook, faux, limbaugh, and general fascistgop cheating. You dance with who brung ya.

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