Trump Campaign Spends Heavily, Sets Up Operation To Avoid 2016’s Mistakes

JOHNSON CITY, TN - OCTOBER 01: President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally at Freedom Hall on October 1, 2018 in Johnson City, Tennessee. President Trump held the rally to support Republican senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
JOHNSON CITY, TN - OCTOBER 01: An attendee holds a "Keep America Great" sign as President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally at Freedom Hall on October 1, 2018 in Johnson City, Tennessee. Presid... JOHNSON CITY, TN - OCTOBER 01: An attendee holds a "Keep America Great" sign as President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a campaign rally at Freedom Hall on October 1, 2018 in Johnson City, Tennessee. President Trump held the rally to support Republican senate candidate Marsha Blackburn. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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President Donald Trump’s reelection effort has been in full swing for months, as campaign manager Brad Pascale molds an apparatus with clear lines of communication, hierarchy and organization: in short, a model nothing like Trump’s fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants 2016 campaign.

According to a Tuesday Politico report, campaign officials are trying desperately to avoid the embarrassing leaks and gaffes of the inexperienced team that plagued their 2016 effort.

Team Trump is also firming up campaign assets to combat the President’s dismal polling numbers and the constant turbulence that always follows in his wake. The campaign spent a whopping $2 million more than it raised from October to the end of December.

Per Politico, campaign officials expect to have 100 employees on payroll by the end of this year.

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  1. As long as Trump is the candidate, nothing will help.

  2. Translation: All the grifters hard at work skimming dark money before the crash…

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/prime-beta/who-is-nick-ayers-tracking-the-swampy-rise-john-kellys-potential-replacement

    Upon joining the Trump administration, per HuffPost, Ayers announces a personal net worth of somewhere between $12 million and just more than $54 million. He continues to run C5 for several months before handing it over to his wife, and obtains a waiver allowing him to speak with former clients.

  3. All abortion payouts are fiscal year 2018 to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

  4. Like everything else Trump does, I’m sure this campaign apparatus is more grift than anything else. Someone is sitting in an office licking stamps for $10,000 a week. And there are a few dozen of those someones.

  5. No matter how good the organization, they are selling a piss-poor product. In other words, you can’t polish a turd.

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