The new plan calls for fewer offices, less staff and a focus on new partnerships with outside groups — raising concerns among some in the GOP.
By Michael Scherer, Josh Dawsey, Maeve Reston and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington PostThe South Carolina campaign headquarters ahead of an event featuring Donald Trump Jr. on Feb. 23 in North Charleston.
The shift comes as President Biden’s campaign and its allies, buoyed by incumbency, have been moving in the opposite direction, building a more expansive operation sooner than in 2020. Strategists for both major parties expect Democrats to raise and spend more than Republicans over the coming months, a dynamic that has been magnified by the significant legal costs Trump’s fundraising apparatus has absorbed to defend him in state and federal courts.
Top party officials reassured her that resources would be coming to the state. “The AZGOP and the RNC are joined at the hip. Together, we are 110% focused on sending President Trump back to the White House and saving our country,” Swoboda said in a statement Tuesday.“There is no sign of life,” said Kim Owens, a Republican operative and public relations professional
Trump’s aides say they will build a more narrowly targeted volunteer field program - using their successful effort in the Iowa caucuses as a template - while taking advantage of a recent Federal Election Commission ruling that will allow them to directly coordinate message and script plans with outside groups who have paid canvassing such as door-knocking. The operation is being run by LaCivita, Blair and Alex Latcham, a former White House deputy political director for Trump.
“The prism, if you will, of how we see this race is built on three things,” LaCivita said of how the Trump team was planning to build contrast with their Democratic opponent. “It’s built on strength versus weakness, success versus failure and the complete dishonesty of the Biden administration.” In private conversations with both Whatley and McDaniel, Trump told them to not worry about getting out the vote since he could do it himself. He told them to “focus on the cheating.” Party leaders say they are planning a massive operation around “election integrity,” with tens of thousands of volunteers who will monitor precincts and vote-counting across the country.
Trump’s team, as in 2016, is running without the structural benefits of incumbency. Trump had controlled the RNC for three years before 2020, raising enormous sums of money that could be spent on his reelection effort. At the end His team expects to make up part of the difference by taking advantage of a recent change in FEC guidance, which now allows campaigns to coordinate canvassing programs with outside groups that can raise and spend money from wealthy donors without limit.
The Campaign Legal Center and Ryan G. Dollar, the general counsel of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, warned before FEC commissioners voted that their decision could lead to an unprecedented flood of corporate money into canvassing efforts for federal candidates, “all while avoiding the consequences of having that spending classified as impermissible contributions,” according to Dollar.
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