{"id":1030589,"date":"2024-04-06T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T15:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1030589"},"modified":"2024-05-10T16:29:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T16:29:33","slug":"icymi-axios-trumps-team-shows-growing-pains-in-pivot-to-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/icymi-axios-trumps-team-shows-growing-pains-in-pivot-to-general-election\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Axios: Trump&#8217;s team shows growing pains in pivot to general election"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Point:<\/strong> \u201c[Trump\u2019s] team&#8217;s pivot to a general election campaign has been more chaotic, with backtracking and second-guessing. \u2026 Many of the hiccups have revolved around Trump&#8217;s takeover of the Republican National Committee. \u2026 The headlines about Trump&#8217;s bumpy takeover of the RNC caused concern at the highest levels of his campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/06\/trump-campaign-rnc-2024-election\"><strong>Axios<\/strong><\/a><strong>: Trump&#8217;s team shows growing pains in pivot to general election<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Sophia Cai and Alex Thompson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>[Trump\u2019s] team&#8217;s pivot to a general election campaign has been more chaotic, with backtracking and second-guessing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Why it matters: <strong>Many of the hiccups have revolved around Trump&#8217;s takeover of the Republican National Committee.<\/strong> His team now has rehired many of the 60 staffers who were fired when Trump took control last month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>It&#8217;s the latest in a series of reversals by Trump&#8217;s team at the RNC, now led by chair Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Those who&#8217;ve been rehired include most of the RNC&#8217;s staff in key states, including five regional political directors and most of the committee&#8217;s state directors. <strong>Some are unsure what their roles are now.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reality check: Part of the Trump team&#8217;s challenge is that his primary campaign involved only a few dozen people. Now that the RNC is essentially a part of Trump&#8217;s campaign, the entire operation needs to grow quickly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Zoom in: <strong>The team&#8217;s growing pains were evident from the start of Trump&#8217;s takeover of the RNC.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On his first day, new chief operating officer Sean Cairncross alerted the 60 staffers that they were being asked to resign and reapply, in an email that misspelled his name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>After a backlash over the RNC&#8217;s reported plans to cut community centers and an early voting program, Whatley sent out a memo stating his support for those programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lara Trump initially said she hoped to hire conservative activist and conspiracy theorist Scott Presler, who called the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol &#8220;the largest civil rights protest in American history.&#8221; (The RNC didn&#8217;t hire Presler. But a Trump spokesperson told Axios he&#8217;ll be registering voters at an upcoming RNC event.)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The RNC got more unwanted attention for asking job candidates whether they thought the 2020 election was stolen.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And after Lara Trump suggested the RNC might pay Donald Trump&#8217;s legal bills, the team rushed to reassure RNC members that it wouldn&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The intrigue: <strong>The headlines about Trump&#8217;s bumpy takeover of the RNC caused concern at the highest levels of his campaign.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On March 15, <strong>Trump co-campaign manager Susie Wiles told senior staffers that the new RNC&#8217;s first week had gotten awful media coverage and things had to change<\/strong>, Axios has learned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Separately, Wiles pressed fellow senior adviser Chris LaCivita \u2014 who was overseeing the changes at the RNC \u2014 about her concerns, three people familiar with the matter told Axios.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Point: \u201c[Trump\u2019s] team&#8217;s pivot to a general election campaign has been more chaotic, with backtracking and second-guessing. \u2026 Many of the hiccups have revolved around Trump&#8217;s takeover of the Republican National Committee. \u2026 The headlines about Trump&#8217;s bumpy takeover of the RNC caused concern at the highest levels of his campaign.\u201d Axios: Trump&#8217;s team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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