I don’t mean to step on AL’s post, but Yamiche Alcindor from The New York Times has just reported out the following news:
Source also says that RNC officials likely can't oust Trump from the ticket and that Trump would likely have to quit on his own.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) October 8, 2016
I’m honestly not sure that anyone at the RNC actually understands strategy from what I’ve observed over the past several years. They were in favor of the Citizen’s United case, which resulted in every billionaire conservative being allowed to basically fund their own equivalents to the RNC. In terms of funding candidates, up and down the ballot, the RNC is superfluous. But it goes beyond that. In the last two presidential election cycles the RNC has been unable to exercise any control over the primary process, which is why in both 2012 and now in 2016 they have had over a dozen candidates contest for the nomination. Trump’s genius was recognizing this, and recognizing the importance of TV news coverage and how similar it all seemed to reality TV. And, as a result, he was able to walk right through the scrum to daylight and take the nomination with minimum effort. And since its very unclear if anyone at the RNC can develop strategy, it is also unclear if they can also do crisis action planning. It is clear, based on the repeated attempts by elected Republican officials seeking reelection this year to straddle the issues that Trump has created, that they do not have a strategy for dealing with him either aside from condemning what he says and does, immediately providing a pro forma reiteration of support for him, and then trying to get away from the reporter asking the questions. This inability to develop strategy or develop contingency plans in case of a crisis, that, regardless of what does or does not happen with Trump over the next several days, does not bode well for the future. Wounded political movements, just like wounded animals, are dangerous.
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