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The Hill logoPresident Trump is running for reelection as an outsider candidate. But it’s a knotty challenge for someone who holds the world’s most powerful office.

Trump’s speech in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday, which officially launched his 2020 bid, was rife with rhetoric portraying himself — and by extension his supporters — as victims of nefarious elites.

The president said that he and his allies were besieged by a “permanent political class” and “an unholy alliance of lobbyists and donors and special interests.”

View the complete June 20 article by Niall Stanage on The Hill website here.

Five takeaways from Trump’s 2020 kickoff rally

President Trump kicked off his 2020 campaign with a rally at the 20,000-seat Amway Center in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday night.

Here are five takeaways from his speech.

Meet the new Trump, same as the old Trump

Trump’s campaign billed the rally as the official beginning of his reelection bid, but it was easy to mistake it for any one of the many other rallies he’s held over the past 2 1/2 years.

Trump appeared to be more interested in airing grievances with familiar enemies, such as Democrats, the political establishment, special counsel Robert Mueller and the “fake news media” — whom he accused of putting him “under siege” — rather than touting his accomplishments and laying out a second-term agenda, as would be typical for an incumbent president.

View the complete June 18 article by Jordan Fabian and Jonathan Easley on The Hill website here.

Trump rehashes gripes, rips ‘radical’ Dems in 2020 launch

ORLANDO, FL — Jabbing at the press and poking the eye of the political establishment he ran against in 2016, President Donald Trump officially kicked off his reelection campaign Tuesday with a grievance-filled Florida rally that focused more on settling scores than laying out his agenda for a second term.

Addressing a crowd of thousands at Orlando’s Amway Center, Trump complained he had been “under assault from the very first day” of his presidency by a “fake news media” and “illegal witch hunt” that had tried to keep him and his supporters down.

And he painted a disturbing picture of what life would look like if he loses in 2020, accusing his critics of “un-American conduct” and telling the crowd that Democrats “want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it.”

View the complete June 19 article by Jim Colvin, Jonathan LeMire and Michael Schneider of the Associated Press on The Star Tribune website here.

Trump fires the polling firm Kellyanne Conway built over leak of polls he said didn’t exist

“They’re giving out phony polls.”

Days after President Donald Trump was caught gaslighting the American people about an embarrassing campaign poll that he falsely claimed did not exist, he has taken action. Rather than change the conduct and message that has made him the most consistently unpopular president in modern times, he has instead opted to change the messenger.

Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign reportedly dismissed three longtime pollsters over the leak of an internal poll that showed him trailing Joe Biden badly in several key states. They included Michael Baselice, Adam Geller, and Brett Loyd. The latter name is particularly noteworthy: he is president and CEO of the polling company inc./WomanTrend, the public opinion firm created by Trump’s counselor Kellyanne Conway back in 1995.

While polling about an election that’s still more than a year away is notoriously unreliable, it is significant that the president of the United States — who, as a candidate, vowed to America “I will never lie to you” — flat out lied about the existence of his own poll.

View the complete June 17 article by Josh Israel on the ThinkProgress website here.

Trump tries to upend the 2020 map

The president’s reelection campaign is making moves to expand his reelection path beyond three treacherous Rust Belt states.

President Donald Trump is targeting a trio of states that he lost in 2016 — a move aimed at widening his path to reelection that comes as he’s struggling in the Rust Belt states that propelled him to the White House.

Trump officials are zeroing in on New Mexico, Nevada and New Hampshire, where they insist there’s an opening despite heavy losses Republicans suffered there in the midterms. They’ve deployed around a half-dozen staffers to New Hampshire and several to Nevada, an unusually early investment in places that favor Democrats. And the campaign is doing polling to tease out Trump’s level of support in New Mexico, a focal point for campaign manager Brad Parscale, and they have discussed dispatching aides to the blue state.

The maneuvering underscores how Trump is trying to capitalize on his vast financial and organizational advantage over Democrats. Yet it also illustrates how the president, whose own polling shows him falling behind in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, is seeking out additional routes to a second term.

View the complete June 4 article by Alex Isenstadt, which includes audio, on the Politico website here.

Trump’s sleazy reelection campaign is stealing millions of his donors’ dollars for his — and his family members’ — legal bills

Within hours of Donald Trump’s inauguration, he did something that was peculiar and unprecedented. He announced the establishment of his reelection committee for 2020. At the time, no one could figure out why he would do that so far in advance of the next presidential election. But his reasons are now apparent, and they affirm his status as Grifter-in-Chief.

When a campaign committee is formed it can immediately begin raising funds and making expenditures. Since January of 2017, Trump has pulled in more than $60 million dollars, just to his campaign committee, which doesn’t count what’s been raised by the Republican Party and pro-Trump PACS. Some of that money has already been been spent on his frequent cult rallies. He’s done about sixty of those to date. Remember, this is the candidate who said that:

“I don’t need anybody’s money. It’s nice. I don’t need anybody’s money. I’m using my own money. I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.”

View the complete April 28 article from News Corpse via Daily Koss on the AlterNet website here.

Trump launches unprecedented reelection machine

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee will merge their field and fundraising programs into a joint outfit dubbed Trump Victory. Credit: Evan Vucci, AP

Unique structure of the president’s reelection campaign is an expression of his iron grip on the party.

President Donald Trump is planning to roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection, a streamlined organization that incorporates the Republican National Committee and the president’s campaign into a single entity.

It’s a stark expression of Trump’s stranglehold over the Republican Party: Traditionally, a presidential reelection committee has worked in tandem with the national party committee, not subsumed it.

Under the plan, which has been in the works for several weeks, the Trump reelection campaign and the RNC will merge their field and fundraising programs into a joint outfit dubbed Trump Victory. The two teams will also share office space rather than operate out of separate buildings, as has been custom.

View the complete December 18 article by Alex Isenstadt on the Politico.com website here.

Trump’s raking in millions from his re-election campaign slush fund

The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website April 16, 2018:

Trump’s re-election campaign means even small donors have a chance to line his pockets, or contribute to his steep legal fees — intentionally or not.

Is this a presidency or a financial fraud scheme? With Trump’s re-election campaign, it’s getting harder to tell.

Two new revelations about Trump’s 2016 election campaign and his 2020 re-election effort, which Trump launched right after he took office, confirm that the self-dealing has been endless.

“President Donald Trump’s U.S. businesses have received at least $15.1 million in revenue from political groups and federal agencies since 2015,” McClatchy reported on Monday. “But it was Trump’s campaign itself that spent the biggest chunk by far — about 90 percent, or $13.4 million.” Continue reading “Trump’s raking in millions from his re-election campaign slush fund”