Republican campaign staffers in swing states tell the Washington Post they’re starting to get pretty nervous about fat former President Trump’s lack of any actual effort to build out infrastructure in the places he actually needs to win the Electoral College, and apparently don’t realize yet that little if any such efforts are forthcoming from Team Orange and the newly extra-Trumpfied RNC.
“In order to win close elections in Georgia, you have to have a ground game that emphasizes turning out early votes and absentee votes,” said Cody Hall, senior adviser to Gov Brian Kemp. “I have seen no evidence of them having any of that. The Trump campaign has a consultant in Georgia, but there is nothing else that I can see… Everyone is generally concerned.” Arizona GOP operative Kim Owens says there’s “no sign of life. Especially in a state that Trump lost so closely last time, you’d expect to have more of a presence. I would think, ‘Let’s step it up.’ I think it’s a terrible mistake.”
The plan, laid out over a few dozen paragraphs, is to literally just let Trump motivate his fans to vote for him by holding campaign rallies and putting out ads, leaving the state GOPs and outside groups like Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA to figure out the nuts and bolts of turnout efforts. Donald himself is the mastermind of it, wanting all the resources for traditional street-level campaigning to go to “election integrity,” confident that he can coast to victory just by being himself.
Not much else to add here, just to say let’s see how that ends up shaking out for the fat bastard.