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RandySF

(57,604 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 02:18 AM Aug 2016

Clinton way ahead of Trump in state-level teams.

Donald Trump, already lagging behind Hillary Clinton in ground game organizing, is also facing a quantifiable talent gap in key battleground states, starting at the top.

And that’s according to his fellow Republicans.

Veteran Republican operatives and key leaders from several critical battleground states say that at best, they've never heard of Trump's state directors or have only limited familiarity with them — and at worst, they know them, and question their ability to do the job.

“The Clinton campaign is very strong in New Hampshire,” said Ryan Williams, who served as a longtime aide to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney and has extensive experience working in New Hampshire. Of Trump’s New Hampshire state director, Matt Ciepielowski, he said, “I’ve been doing campaigns in New Hampshire since ’08, I haven’t come across him.”

Across the country, one Nevada Republican said of Trump’s state director there, Charles Munoz: “I’m actually surprised, being one of the few battleground states out there, that they don’t have a more seasoned professional running their operation, because Hillary Clinton has a remarkable team on the ground in Nevada, demonstrating how seriously she’s taking the state.”

Trump’s list of state directors is peppered with a mix of young people who have no presidential campaign experience, as well as Republican operatives who have been out of the spotlight for years. In contrast, Clinton is boosted by Democratic operatives who led marquee races and helped shepherd Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012.


http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/donald-trump-state-campaigns-226966#ixzz4HTPh1yNG

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TeamPooka

(24,155 posts)
1. I think Bialystock and Bloom are running his campaign. If he wins they get to say "Where did we go
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:35 AM
Aug 2016

right?"

riversedge

(69,708 posts)
2. I am so thank ful to the volunteers and Hillary's staff for their continued work on
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:47 AM
Aug 2016

her behalf. Hillary has and is running a grand campaign.

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
3. Do you know, every now and then I have a moment where I'm struck by how crazy this all is
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 06:56 AM
Aug 2016

Hillary's team is working flat out, night and day, millions and millions of dollars in ads and ground game, volunteers working so hard for her, she's on the road every minute of the day meeting voters...and all for what? To defeat this complete disaster of a human being, much less a candidate? It's going to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of hours of time and effort to get a sane, competent woman elected over an insane, incompetent man? Not even talking about the gender thing really (it was the same for Obama) but really. I just can't believe all the blood, sweat, tears, and money it will take to defeat a man who couldn't be trusted with a set of car keys, much less keys to the nuclear codes.

What the actual f*ck is WRONG with this country?

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