Trump 2020 'begins today'
With the midterms behind him, Trump dives into a re-election campaign facing a Democratic House, political gridlock and special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe.
By ELIANA JOHNSON, ALEX ISENSTADT and ALEX THOMPSON 11/07/2018 03:10 AM EST
As president Donald Trump absorbed Tuesday nights mixed election returns, two key allies were by his side in the White House: one of his 2016 campaign managers, Corey Lewandowski, and the man who will run his 2020 re-election bid, Brad Parscale.
The two men attended what the White House billed as a midterm watch party. But the presence of Lewandowski and Parscale underscored that it may have more accurately been described as the unofficial kickoff of Trumps 2020 campaign. As guests snacked on hamburgers and hot dogs, the president was surrounded not just by the political aides who will orchestrate the effort but also by some of the donors expected to underwrite it, including Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter, and fracking billionaire Harold Hamm.
Starting Wednesday, Trump who has already spent the past several weeks firing up crowds of supporters will turn his full attention to his own 2020 re-election campaign, which aides and associates say will be close to all-consuming over the next two years.
The re-elect begins today, said Brian Walsh, President of the pro-Trump America First Action super PAC: "Its all in and all on the line.
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