Liam Donovan

CNN on Trump Campaign Shake-Up

August 21, 2016 No Comments

CNN’s Teddy Schleifer looks at the shake-up in the Trump high command and its impact on the GOP donor world.

The cost of that move? Reviving concerns about Trump’s willingness to do what is needed to win.

“The first response would be ‘who?’ And the second a realization that he has no intention of even making this thing particularly close,” said Liam Donovan, a former GOP finance official who has been sharply critical of Trump.

“I think the message conveyed — that Manafort was reining him in and this is a return to letting Trump be Trump — will spook people who have been waiting for the pivot that never comes.”

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Podcasts

The Buckley Club Podcast

August 21, 2016 No Comments

Last week I joined The Buckley Club to talk about demographics, the politics of immigration, and the GOP’s down-ballot fortunes. Check out the podcast here, and follow them on twitter @TheBuckleyClub.

https://soundcloud.com/the-buckley-club/podcast-3

Articles

On Trump’s “Missing” Millions

August 16, 2016 No Comments

My rebuttal to the “Missing Money” Huffpo story that has been making the rounds:

Consider author Bob Burnett’s premise, that there is $63 million in “missing” money somehow unaccounted for. More precisely he asserts that Trump must have spent that massive sum. Well, not so fast. Indeed, the campaign seems to have netted $17 million in July, but the $80 million denominator is way off base…

In other words, the $80 million figure is padded by tens of millions of dollars bound for the RNC, 11 state party signatories, and special, segregated funds held by the national party for specific purposes.

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