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Related: About this forumReince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: 'I go with the flow'
Source: The Guardian
Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: 'I go with the flow'
RNC chairman says new campaign manager is doing a phenomenal job
Refrains from speculating about Breitbarts Stephen Bannon
Tom McCarthy
Sunday 28 August 2016 19.11 BST
Channelling Lao Tzu, Glenn Frey and Jeffrey the Dude Lebowski, Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that when it came to personnel issues with the Donald Trump campaign, I go with the flow.
Look, you know, I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do, Priebus told NBCs Meet the Press. I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I dont know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well.
Kellyanne is Kellyanne Conway, the pollster who was promoted to campaign manager by Trump two weeks ago. Bannon is the driving force behind the rightwing Breitbart website who was named campaign CEO in the same round of musical chairs.
For a less chill national party chairman, the kind of headlines about Bannon that have surfaced in the last week could be a real bummer. Bannons past includes domestic violence charges, allegations of antisemitism and a mysterious arrangement in which he was registered to vote at a home where he did not live.
Im going to get to know him, Priebus told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, 72 days before the election.
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RNC chairman says new campaign manager is doing a phenomenal job
Refrains from speculating about Breitbarts Stephen Bannon
Tom McCarthy
Sunday 28 August 2016 19.11 BST
Channelling Lao Tzu, Glenn Frey and Jeffrey the Dude Lebowski, Republican national committee chairman Reince Priebus said on Sunday that when it came to personnel issues with the Donald Trump campaign, I go with the flow.
Look, you know, I go with the flow based on what the campaign wants to do, Priebus told NBCs Meet the Press. I think Kellyanne is doing a phenomenal job. I dont know Steve Bannon, to tell you the truth, very well.
Kellyanne is Kellyanne Conway, the pollster who was promoted to campaign manager by Trump two weeks ago. Bannon is the driving force behind the rightwing Breitbart website who was named campaign CEO in the same round of musical chairs.
For a less chill national party chairman, the kind of headlines about Bannon that have surfaced in the last week could be a real bummer. Bannons past includes domestic violence charges, allegations of antisemitism and a mysterious arrangement in which he was registered to vote at a home where he did not live.
Im going to get to know him, Priebus told Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, 72 days before the election.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/28/reince-priebus-donald-trump-new-hires
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Reince Priebus on Trump campaign hires: 'I go with the flow' (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2016
OP
Trump has accomplished one miracle. He made me feel sorry for Priebus. For a second anyway.
stevenleser
Aug 2016
#3
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)1. Heckeva job
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)2. Flush twice. nt
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)3. Trump has accomplished one miracle. He made me feel sorry for Priebus. For a second anyway.
Few people deserve to have to sit there and defend Trump and his choices.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)4. If course he dies. It's not like he had a choice.
LeftRant
(524 posts)5. Priebus is so useless.
He's a talking-point robot. I know that's the job, but still.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)6. Translation: I self-medicate.
Heavily.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)7. Does he get to visit his soul on weekends?
I mean, now that he's cashed it in for the sake of his party....
randome
(34,845 posts)8. Like I've been saying: no one is in charge.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/takeover-complete
To summarize: the GOP with the help of Fox News is like a failed nation that has been taken over by a warlord.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
This isn't just a clever aside. The prism of state failure is actually an apt way to look at the progression of the GOP over the last two decades. Trump isn't the leader of the GOP. He's not trying to be. Historic party leaders - FDR, Reagan, possibly Obama - fuse party coalitions together on new and transformative terms. McCain or Romney may have failed to achieve that goal in its entirety. But Trump hasn't even tried. He's simply taken control of the largest constituency block and decided to rule it as his own. The party's institutional apparatus was too weak to prevent it. Like warlordization in a state collapse context, Trump's action confirms the breakdown of institutional control but also makes recovery and unity even more difficult to recover.
To summarize: the GOP with the help of Fox News is like a failed nation that has been taken over by a warlord.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
Dem2
(8,168 posts)9. "I'm one weak ass leader"
Yeah, we know.