Last month, Donald Trump completely hijacked the GOP by seizing control of the Republican National Committee. So, how is his RNC takeover going?
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For decades, Donald Trump has been obsessed with gaining and holding onto power. He’s shown it in his business/real estate practices, during his time inside the Oval Office, and with his recent commandeering of the Republican National Committee. Trump’s biggest desire was to turn the entire GOP into sniveling pushovers who would kowtow to his every whim and cower in fear of not being able to please him. Now, his plan to have total control over one of the two major US political parties is complete with his RNC takeover — and it’s an epic failure!
In March, Trump fired the entire RNC staff and installed his own sycophants who were eager to bend over backward to do his bidding. He ran RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel out of office and replaced her with Michael Whatley (the former chair of the North Carolina Republican Party), and Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law (who has zero political experience on any level).
With all of his hand-picked flunkies in place ready to do whatever he ordered, Donald Trump was pleased with his RNC takeover. Too bad for him it’s been nothing but a nightmare ever since.
When he replaced a competent RNC staff with his own cadre of yes-men, Trump overlooked one very important detail. None of his brand-new RNC staff understands anything about how to run a political party, how to run the local and state game for down-ballot Republican races across the country, or how to strategize and win a national election for President of the United States. In short, they’re all politically incompetent and were only hired because they gave the answer Trump wanted to hear when asked during the interview if the 2020 election was rigged.
Realizing that he may have purged too many staffers too quickly (without using the old staffers to at least train the new ones), Trump backpedaled by engaging in a haphazard attempt to offer the former staff members their old jobs back. Regrettably, many refused his offer while others who’ve since returned say they are “unsure of what their roles are.”
Now, with less than 7 months to go before the general election, the RNC is a mess. The party is being run by a state politician (who’s perhaps the most experienced of the bunch), Lara Trump (who’s being expected to magically learn how to run an entire party on the fly despite an ounce of experience), and a bunch of staffers who know little to nothing about politics and whose only claim to fame is knowing how to say yes to Donald Trump.
In short, Trump’s RNC takeover has proven to be a self-inflicted disaster with little chance of improvement in time for November — and political observers have taken notice.
According to Betsy Reed of THE GUARDIAN: “The situation means the RNC has been left without people with deep knowledge of election operations at the Republican party’s central committee.”
Oh, but it gets worse.
Late last month, Trump made the executive decision to move RNC operations from its longtime headquarters in Washington to a location near his Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida. Many old and new staffers either didn’t want to move or couldn’t move because their spouses and/or children were locked into remaining in Washington. So, Trump began offering them housing as an incentive.
“The new RNC leadership recently started offering the data team staffers housing within the Trump campaign campus, described informally as ‘Trump Village’ hoping that defraying residential costs and logistical concerns would be an incentive for them to stay on,” Reed said.
Sadly, the housing offer seemed to have the opposite effect.
“Some staffers who declined return offers suggested they disliked the notion of living at work or alongside the most hardcore Trump campaign staffers,” Reed added.
Since Trump’s RNC takeover, Republicans have realized that his stigmatization of early voting hurts the GOP at the voting booth. Some party members are also concerned with how far the RNC will go in promoting election denialism and Trump’s obsession with forcing everyone to admit that he won in 2020. This fear was fueled by the March announcement that Lara Trump intended to hire QAnon conspiracy theorist and “Stop the Steal” organizer Scott Presler to serve in the committee’s “legal ballot harvesting division.”
Needless to say, it’s now clear that a premature rush to cleanse the RNC has pushed out talent that could’ve helped Trump and the party win back the White House and possible control of the House and Senate.
Or, in other words, Trump’s RNC takeover has left him with a building full of nobodies willing to do whatever he wants — but with zero knowledge about how to run a major political party.
OK WASSUP! discusses Politics:
The RNC takeover by Trump is a hot mess.
The only thing this dangerous joker actually really cares about is saving his own sorry rear-end and getting his hands on other people’s money, by any means necessary!
Current reporting indicates small donations from his supporters are down by over 60%. And everybody knows he’s literally a broke billionaire. He needs $$$ and lots of it.
Under his leadership via his daughter in-law he’s hoping the RNC will help him achieve that grift.