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Trump plays the inside game to stave off ’16-like convention chaos
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:10 pm
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:10 pm
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When Former President Donald Trump quietly huddled last month with a group of Louisiana Republican Party leaders at his Mar-a-Lago estate, it was part of a broader effort to cultivate the support of the powerful officials who will decide the party’s 2024 nominee.
It was also an attempt to not repeat the early mistakes that plagued Trump’s first presidential campaign — mistakes that have stuck with the former president some seven years later.
Trump has told advisers he remembers well what happened in Louisiana during the 2016 race. After winning the primary, he was outmaneuvered by his chief rival, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who understood that it was the state’s delegates that mattered at the Republican National Convention.
Cruz ended up performing better than expected in the state’s delegate fight. And after the imbroglio, Trump brought in veteran Republican strategist Paul Manafort as part of an effort to bring a level of professionalism to his delegate operation. In the years since, he has told advisers: “I won the primary but lost the delegates.” And when he sat down with the Louisiana Republican Party leaders, the story of that delegate fight with Cruz was among the topics discussed, according to a person familiar with the conversation.
Now engaged in another delegate battle, Trump has been aggressively courting party leaders — in Louisiana and elsewhere — who are expected to be delegates at the party’s 2024 convention in Milwaukee. He’s been dining with them at Mar-a-Lago, chatting them up at party events and offering them endorsements. The effort will intensify in the weeks to come, with Trump expected to make appearances at state party events that will be filled with future national delegates.
The courtship illustrates Trump’s transformation as a presidential candidate — from the political newcomer of 2016 who oversaw a chaotic operation, to the experienced campaigner now playing the inside game.
“They’re very organized very early. They’ve been in touch with us a number of times,” said Rhett Davis, a consultant to the Louisiana GOP. “President Trump is in a much better position in Louisiana than he was in 2016. He’s extremely strong here.”
“No other presidential campaign or potential campaign has reached out to us,” Davis added.
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Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:13 pm to GumboPot
Ultra-Swamp Maneuvering 
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:17 pm to GumboPot
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“I won the primary but lost the delegates.
How does that make sense in a reality where Trump won the delegate count in Louisiana?
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:17 pm to Lou Pai
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:21 pm to Indefatigable
If delegates are only held to a required nominee for one vote, it means that controlling WHO those delegates are becomes extremely important if you think someone will try a delegate challenge.
Either you put hand picked people into those delegate slates or you wine them dine them 69 them to get them on your side.
Either you put hand picked people into those delegate slates or you wine them dine them 69 them to get them on your side.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:23 pm to Lou Pai
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Ultra-Swamp Maneuvering
Establishment Ron agrees!
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:23 pm to teke184
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If delegates are only held to a required nominee for one vote, it means that controlling WHO those delegates are becomes extremely important if you think someone will try a delegate challenge.
Trump won with almost 70% of the delegates on the first ballot at the convention.
So again, I ask in what reality did Trump "win the primary but lost the delegates" in Louisiana?
This post was edited on 5/8/23 at 4:24 pm
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:25 pm to Indefatigable
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How does that make sense in a reality where Trump won the delegate count in Louisiana?
IDK. I had to check because I wasn't sure based on my memory. Trump won the LA delegates. Politico is wrong. I do remember however Trump being unprepared going into the convention and scrambling to get it together by hiring Paul Manafort.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:27 pm to GumboPot
I'm questioning the entire article at this point, because there was no convention chaos in 2016. Trump won easily on the first ballot, with bound delegates, and everyone knew that result was coming for weeks ahead of time.
This seems like a really strange way to try and convince everyone that they are going for a better ground game this time around.
This seems like a really strange way to try and convince everyone that they are going for a better ground game this time around.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:42 pm to GumboPot
GumboPot with 2 posts on the front page:
1. Look at how DeSantis is just a political entity, playing the game, and answering to the GOPe!! He's part of the swamp!
2. Look at how well Trump is maneuvering the political landscape, inviting delegates to dinners, and playing the game! Truly Presidential!
Some of you guys have let your blind loyalty to Trump make you look pretty foolish, doing some serious mental gymnastics to explain how this is fine for Trump but bad for DeSantis.
1. Look at how DeSantis is just a political entity, playing the game, and answering to the GOPe!! He's part of the swamp!
2. Look at how well Trump is maneuvering the political landscape, inviting delegates to dinners, and playing the game! Truly Presidential!
Some of you guys have let your blind loyalty to Trump make you look pretty foolish, doing some serious mental gymnastics to explain how this is fine for Trump but bad for DeSantis.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 4:47 pm to Goombaw
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Some of you guys have let your blind loyalty to Trump make you look pretty foolish, doing some serious mental gymnastics to explain how this is fine for Trump but bad for DeSantis.
The good news is it will be harder for Trump to be criticized for being unprepared going into the convention.
Posted on 5/8/23 at 5:18 pm to GumboPot
Gotta get ahead of Ryan / Murdoch
Posted on 5/8/23 at 5:32 pm to Lou Pai
He learned from Cruz. Weren't you a diehard Cruz, or was it Kasich guy? Then held your nose with Trump a little? How about abortion are you suddenly to the right of nuns on the issue wanting abortions banned nationally?
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Guiding Trump’s strategy is a team of advisers who are veterans of delegate fights. The group includes Brian Jack, Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita — all of whom played key roles in the 2016 national convention. Also on the team is Clayton Henson, who served in the Trump White House and on the former president’s 2020 reelection campaign. Much of Trump’s team was present at the Republican National Committee gathering in Dana Point, Calif. earlier this year, where they met with party officials from a number of states.
Trump advisers believe their early outreach will give them a head start over rival candidates, who lack Trump’s long-standing connections to party officials.
“The Trump campaign … has spent the last eight years fine tuning its unmatched operation,” said Steven Cheung, a Trump campaign spokesperson. “For any other campaign to think they can come even close to what President Trump has built is laughable and delusional.”
What Trump’s campaign is trying to avoid is a rerun of the 2016 national convention, when Cruz waged a last-ditch effort to stop Trump from winning the nomination. While it ended up being unsuccessful, it was embarrassing to Trump.
Many of Cruz’s top alum are now serving on a super PAC bolstering Trump’s chief primary rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The group includes former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who in 2016 helped spearhead the anti-Trump push at the convention and at one point threw his credentials on the floor in protest.
Erin Perrine, a spokesperson for the pro-DeSantis group, Never Back Down, declined to comment directly on the group’s plans to engage in delegate outreach, but accused Trump of taking part in “Washington insider games” that “show he’s become the swamp he once vowed to drain.”
Still, there is little question, many state party leaders say, that Trump has a massive organizational head start over other candidates when it comes to wooing future delegates.
Mike Brown, the chair of the Kansas Republican Party, said he has had extensive conversations with Trump advisers about the state’s political landscape.
“They have done quite a bit in the way of staying in touch,” Brown said of the Trump campaign. “When it comes to the other campaigns, candidly, I haven’t heard from anybody.”
This post was edited on 5/8/23 at 5:34 pm
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