Althouse: "President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity."

December 18, 2018

"President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity."

"It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem with the national party committee, not subsumed it" (Politico).

31 comments:

Earnest Prole said...: "Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem with the national party committee, not subsumed it."

Why don't you ask Bernie Sanders about that.; 12/18/18, 10:45 AM
Earnest Prole said...: Political parties are dead; they've been replaced by the mainstream media, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh.; 12/18/18, 10:49 AM
MadTownGuy said...: They might also ask Donna Brazile. Interesting that, just after the release of her book, she (sort of) walked back her claims about the Hillary campaign's takeover of the DNC.; 12/18/18, 10:50 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Not to mention Obama For America, the terrorist arm of the DNC.; 12/18/18, 10:54 AM
gerry said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 12/18/18, 11:00 AM
Original Mike said...: This didn't work out so well for Hillary.; 12/18/18, 11:02 AM
Anonymous said...: I don't like it. It drains money from down ballot races, but it worked well for Obama; 12/18/18, 11:03 AM
Chuck said...: Michael Fitzgerald said...
Not to mention Obama For America, the terrorist arm of the DNC

That's such an ironic comment, on the blog of Obama voter Ann Althouse.; 12/18/18, 11:04 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Critique of Donna Brazile's retraction and its hasty publication by the obedient media outlets:

Viral Falsehood #1
The Clinton/DNC agreement cited by Brazile only applied to the general election, not the primary.

On Wednesday, Politico published a blockbuster accusation from Brazile’s new book: that the DNC had “rigged” the 2016 primary election for Hillary Clinton through an agreement that gave Clinton control over key aspects of the DNC, a claim that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., endorsed on CNN. The Clinton camp refused to comment publicly but instead contacted their favorite reporters to publish their response as news.

The following day, NBC published an article by Alex Seitz-Wald that recited and endorsed the Clinton camp’s primary defense: Brazile was wrong because the agreement in question (a copy of which they provided to Seitz-Wald) applied “only to preparations for the general election” and had nothing to do with the primary season. That defense, if true, would be fatal to Brazile’s claims, and so DNC-loyal journalists all over Twitter instantly declared it to be true, thus pronouncing Brazile’s accusation to have been fully debunked. This post documents how quickly this claim was endorsed on Twitter by journalists and Democratic operatives, and how far and wide it therefore spread.

The problem with this claim is that it is blatantly and obviously false. All one has to do to know this is read the agreement. Unlike the journalists spreading this DNC defense, Campaign Legal Center’s Brendan Fischer bothered to read it, and immediately saw and documented how obviously false this claim is:

The NBC article that was originally used to spread this claim now includes what amounts to a serious walk-back, if not outright retraction, of the DNC’s principal defense:

DNC and Clinton allies pointed to the fact that the agreement contained self-justifying lawyer language claiming that it is “focused exclusively on preparations for the General,” but, as Fischer noted, that passage “is contradicted by the rest of the agreement.” This would be like creating a contract to explicitly bribe an elected official (“A will pay Politician B to vote YES on Bill X”), then adding a throwaway paragraph with a legalistic disclaimer that “nothing in this agreement is intended to constitute a bribe,” and then have journalists cite that paragraph to proclaim that no bribe happened even though the agreement on its face explicitly says the opposite.

The Clinton/DNC agreement explicitly vested the Clinton campaign with control over key matters during the primary season: the exact opposite of what journalists on Twitter caused hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people to believe. Nonetheless, DNC-loyal commentators continue to cite headlines and tweets citing the legalistic language to convince huge numbers of people that the truth is the exact opposite of what it actually is.; 12/18/18, 11:09 AM
Drago said...: The projection and faux shock on the part of the dems/left/LLR's is completely expected and par for the course.

Particularly coming on the heels of Hillary's 2016 campaign that The Weekly Standard cucks supported so passionately.; 12/18/18, 11:13 AM
Birkel said...: This is what happens when the GOPe cannot be trusted.; 12/18/18, 11:20 AM
Inga...Allie Oop said...: Meh, it’s already been taken over by Trump.; 12/18/18, 11:22 AM
Wince said...: Another of the myriad examples why the Trump presidency is truly one of the most transparent, between goals, methods and results.

By contrast, when Hillary does something it's always hidden, opaque.; 12/18/18, 11:24 AM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: DNC still run by Corrupt Money Grubbing Clintons.; 12/18/18, 11:29 AM
Chuck said...: I would think that Republicans would not want to add "the Republican Party" to this list:

The Trump Foundation
Trump University
Trump Airlines
Trump Entertainment Resorts
Trump Taj Mahal Casino
Trump Mortgage
GoTrump.com
The New Jersey Generals
The Trump Network
Trump New Media; 12/18/18, 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...: "It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: "

I suspect it's the exact opposite. Trump doesn't trust the Republican establishment to act in his best interests.

And justifiably so, imho.; 12/18/18, 11:37 AM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: There are two terrorist factions fighting for control of the DNC, Obama For America against Clinton Crime Family Incorporated. This is very similar to the internecine warfare that took place between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza. Obama For America is America's Hamas.; 12/18/18, 12:04 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: Chuck@11:34 All those failures and yet he persisted to become president of the United States of America! Just like Abraham Lincoln! Thank you for reminding us all what a great and inspirational man our favorite president is, Chuck!; 12/18/18, 12:08 PM
Sam L. said...: Sounds like what Hillary! did.; 12/18/18, 12:32 PM
Big Mike said...: I hope it works better for him in 2020 than it did for Hillary in 2016.; 12/18/18, 12:45 PM
Jim at said...: "Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem with the national party committee, not subsumed it."

Bullshit.

The national party has always worked at the pleasure of the President's re-election committee.

Always.; 12/18/18, 2:04 PM
narciso said...: Unpredecentes those words you are using don't mean what you think they do.; 12/18/18, 2:51 PM
Stoutcat said...: Chuck at 11:34 AM:

Actually his business record is not too bad, per Forbes.

Only One Third Of Trump's New Businesses Succeeded - That's Actually A Pretty Good Record; 12/18/18, 3:59 PM
Mike said...: Easier to funnel money into his own pockets and those of his cronies, I guess.; 12/18/18, 5:08 PM
Clyde said...: Earnest Prole's first comment FTW.; 12/18/18, 5:25 PM
PuertoRicoSpaceport.com said...: Blogger Stoutcat said...

Only One Third Of Trump's New Businesses Succeeded - That's Actually A Pretty Good Record

Rule of thumb for venture capitalists is that out of 20 investments, 15 will fail/lose money. 2-3 will break even turn a small profit. The other 2-3 have to make enough profit to cover all the losses. In other words, a LOT.

60-80% of all new consumer goods products fail within 1-2 years. Fail in the sense that they get taken off the market.

I work closely with a guy who has monetized this. He rents entire manufacturing lines. A Proctor & Gamble, Coke or Mars will get an idea, he rents them the line, they get to market quickly, fail quickly and get on to the next big idea.

We even wrote a book about it.

Babe Ruth also held the strikeout record longer than he held the homerun record. He just kept swinging.

John Henry; 12/18/18, 6:41 PM
iowan2 said...: The difference between President Trumps brilliance and Chucks idiocy. This is not a secret. President Trump is a doer, not a talker. Action, always action. Moving. Failure? Just another day. Average to below average people fear failure, so dont do anything,

a person that points out the few failures of a person that is so successful, exposes the idiocy of a truly mediocre person.; 12/18/18, 9:32 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: 2020? I thought he was already getting ready for 2024.

He's a fossil who doesn't believe in the constitution so what's the difference. Make every year, decade and century the Donald Trump 1950 Century! Hooray for being a perpetual political buttnugget to the his favorite years gone by! Coal! Isolationism! Pollution! White nationalism! Yesteryear's bad ideas you thought were gone, but Don Trump is here to reinvigorate them and show you just how stupid they were both then, and NOW!

Awesome.; 12/18/18, 9:45 PM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Shrug. It's more honest than one of the candidates for nomination taking over the DNC before the primaries.; 12/19/18, 1:34 AM
NotWhoIUsedtoBe said...: Which makes me wonder. If Trump does this, what if there is a primary challenge? What does the RNC do?; 12/19/18, 1:34 AM
bbkingfish said...: This is great. Love it, if true.; 12/20/18, 8:03 AM