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Politico: [Trump is causing] "RNC staff on the edge of mutiny.”

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Donald Trump’s campaign and top Republican Party officials plan what one person called a “come to Jesus” meeting on Friday in Orlando to discuss the Republican nominee’s struggling campaign, according to multiple sources familiar with the scheduled sit-down.
Though a campaign source dismissed it as a "typical" gathering, others described it as a more serious meeting, with one calling it an "emergency meeting." It comes at a time of mounting tension between the campaign and the Republican National Committee, which is facing pressure to pull the plug on Trump’s campaign and redirect party funds down ballot to protect congressional majorities endangered by Trump’s candidacy.
The request for the Orlando Ritz Carlton meeting originated with Trump’s campaign, according to a source familiar with the broad details, and is being viewed by RNC officials as a sign that the campaign has come to grips with the difficulty it is having in maintaining a message and running a ground game.
“They want to patch up a rift that just keeps unfolding,” one source said. “They finally realize they need the RNC for their campaign because, let’s face it, there is no campaign.”
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“This is a typical meeting" Giorno said. "There’s no consternation. These are meetings we’re having in the battleground states to get it all going. We keep seeing these reports that there’s a rift between Reince [Priebus] and the boss and it’s just false.”
Since Trump clinched the nomination, his campaign has come to rely heavily on the RNC for basic political infrastructure that he largely eschewed during a primary campaign in which he relied heavily on the power of social media and free publicity.
But party officials have grumbled that Trump has ignored their advice on how to professionalize his campaign, while trying to seize too much control of the party’s fundraising apparatus.
And some officials on Trump’s campaign have privately questioning the party’s commitment to its nominee – concerns that were inflamed Thursday when POLITICO revealed that more than 70 Republicans had signed an open letter to Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Trump, and to instead shift cash to saving the party’s congressional majorities.
Trump on Thursday night challenged reports that the RNC might shift resources down ballot, warning in an interview on Fox News “if it is true, that’s okay too because all I have to do is stop funding the Republican Party.”
Trump argued that the RNC needs him more than the he needs the committee, asserting: “I’m the one raising that’s funding, I’m the one that’s raising the money and other people are getting to use the money that I raised.”
An RNC member said discontent with the Trump campaign has hit new heights in recent days, describing “major tumult in the building and staff problems and disagreements and RNC staff on the edge of mutiny.”
That’s particularly evident in must-win Florida, the nation’s biggest battleground state, where Trump’s campaign has only one field office and no visible footprint otherwise. It plans to open 25 offices by early September, but rank-and-file Republican Party members and candidates are worried that Hillary Clinton’s team is building a robust campaign across the state.
Republicans started growing more-jittery this week as a Quinnipiac University poll indicated Trump was losing his advantage in Florida over Hillary Clinton and might be dragging down Sen. Marco Rubio’s reelection efforts.
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“In Florida, usually by this time, we’d have 10 field offices set up, but right now, there is only one,” said Al Cardenas, a former chairman of the state’s Republican Party.
So far, cooperation between the campaign and the committee has been strained.
Trump has publicly praised RNC chairman Reince Priebus – calling him “Mr. Switzerland” for maintaining neutrality in the nominating process – but his campaign and the RNC have had an awkward relationship from the start of his run last summer, when Priebus reportedly called Trump and asked him to “tone down” his rhetoric about undocumented Mexican immigrants. In February, Trump accused the committee of “illegally” making money off of him after it sent out an email fundraising appeal that used his name.
The RNC was not immediately available to comment.
The meeting comes just as Trump made a rare public acknowledgement in Orlando that his campaign is on the ropes.
"We're having a problem," Trump told a group of ministers in Orlando in Thursday, according to the Associated Press. Trump pointed out that the troubles and his potential loss "could cost us the Supreme Court."
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Reality is hitting.
 
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This especially hurts Trump a lot. Most major presidential nominees have campaign staffs which dwarf that of their party's, so the latter tends to get folded into the former. But Trump still has a tiny campaign so he's utterly reliant for the RNC staff to do all the heavy lifting. If the RNC isn't fully onboard, we can expect Trump to lose even more badly than the numbers suggest as his GOTV craters.
 
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I heard a good argument just now that Trump doesn't want to be labeled a loser. If the Republicans force him into dropping out by withdrawing financial support he may take the exit.
 
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I heard a good argument just now that Trump doesn't want to be labeled a loser. If the Republicans force him into dropping out by withdrawing financial support he may take the exit.
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I guess? Thing is though, with what this guy has been saying and doing, and the way he has been behaving himself, I don't see how he would care what other people think of him. That being said, maybe I'm ascribing too much rationality to his decisions.
 
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A Link to the Past said:
The only thing that I want to see now is Trump's response being a threat to call for his voters to stay home.
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"The RNC-They're losers by the way- they didn't support me, the nominee. The RNC didn't support me. Those Republicans didn't support the nominee they chose to lead this country. They're losers. Hillary Clinton? She's a crook! She's practically pulled the strings over Priebus. Paid-off Priebus. He's paid off by Crooked HIllary! We don't want any of those people leading our country. Not losers and not crooks, or paid off whiners. They owe everything to me this year, and they abandoned me. Don't even vote for those losers, and don't vote for crooked Hillary, and don't vote for paid-off Priebus."
 
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Heckler456 said:
I guess? Thing is though, with what this guy has been saying and doing, and the way he has been behaving himself, I don't see how he would care what other people think of him. That being said, maybe I'm ascribing too much rationality to his decisions.
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Well, the next 7 days should tell. If he survives this weekend I'm likely to say he's here to stay. The thing is, it's now reached the point where it's in the RNC's best interest to dump their nominee. Something is going to burst, variables depending.

whyamihere said:
So then he'd be a loser.

Also, Trump doesn't think he's losing!
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There reaches a point, like when we see Georgia, South Carolina, Arizona, and Utah possibly going blue based on recent polling, when things won't continue as they are. If things really do continue as they are, then there will be a landslide victory, Dems will most likely take Senate, and Republicans will have major damage control. Or in the alternative, the party dies.
 
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...and might be dragging down Sen. Marco Rubio’s reelection efforts.
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god, we could lose him too, plus Rick Scott's supposed to be out as well? if we could manage this + medical marijuana this round, it'd be such a great clean sweep
 
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BreezyLimbo said:
"The RNC-They're losers by the way- they didn't support me, the nominee. The RNC didn't support me. Those Republicans didn't support the nominee they chose to lead this country. They're losers. Hillary Clinton? She's a crook! She's practically pulled the strings over Priebus. Paid-off Priebus. He's paid off by Crooked HIllary! We don't want any of those people leading our country. Not losers and not crooks, or paid off whiners. They owe everything to me this year, and they abandoned me. Don't even vote for those losers, and don't vote for crooked Hillary, and don't vote for paid-off Priebus."
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Although their articles are entertaining politicos articles are generally bullshit or people trying to save their own asses. Take everything they say with a huge grain of salt.
 
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TheFatOne said:
Although their articles are entertaining politicos articles are generally bullshit or people trying to save their own asses. Take everything they say with a huge grain of salt.
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Good to keep in mind. I think this conversation is inevitable, the RNC won't just let itself burn to ash, of course they're eventually going to intervene somehow.
 
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BreezyLimbo said:
"The RNC-They're losers by the way- they didn't support me, the nominee. The RNC didn't support me. Those Republicans didn't support the nominee they chose to lead this country. They're losers. Hillary Clinton? She's a crook! She's practically pulled the strings over Priebus. Paid-off Priebus. He's paid off by Crooked HIllary! We don't want any of those people leading our country. Not losers and not crooks, or paid off whiners. They owe everything to me this year, and they abandoned me. Don't even vote for those losers, and don't vote for crooked Hillary, and don't vote for paid-off Priebus."
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Christ this reads as something that could actually happen.

I'd love Trump to pull a Ross Perot. Quit in a huff, then turn around and change his mind a month later. While back then we just thought it was silly since Perot was this 3rd party guy who managed a good chunk of the polls, this is the goddamn Republican nominee.
 
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Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
They just weren't buckled in for the pivot and are getting flung off the ride.
 
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Seems like they are in real trouble.

Nothing seems to be sticking to Hillary.

I'm not sure dumping him now or at the convention would really help. His name is already on the ballots.

If they hang him out to dry financially he will just blast the fuck out of them and they will still lose seats.

Shame we couldn't get Bernie in there.
 
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Like Trump would let a dark skinned middle Eastern man like Jesus have a say in his campaign.
 
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OnPoint said:
It all still feels way too soon.

I fear a recovery.

Please be wrong, me.
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Now that a lot of his non-base has turned on him because of the compounding effect of his asinine statements (as polling indicates), I really don't think he can walk those horses back into the barn
 
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Alligatorjandro said:
Who do we blame for the rise of trump?
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Fron my estimate the biggest variables are:

1) the southern strategy which enabled the most bigoted and outspoken of the base to have equal footing in the legitimacy of their beliefs.

2) Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, etc. Their dialogue, fear mongering, and ability to evade facts led to a normalcy to spouting bullshit.

3) White national response to a bubbling culture war due to whites losing their footing as seperate from justic and huge privelage.

When you are used to privilege, equality feels like oppression.
 
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