Lara Trump: Impeachment ‘hysteria’ will die down
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Assuming no impeachment, Trump campaign pledges bigger, deeper ground game

The reelection campaign of President Donald Trump and allied Republican efforts are planning more anti-impeachment advertising and protests for the short-term but are pursuing a longer term strategy that assumes that what Lara Trump called “impeachment hysteria” will die down by next fall’s elections.

“Impeachment hysteria, as I continue to call it, will ultimately die down,” said Lara Trump, who is married to President Trump’s son Eric Trump and is an advisor to the President’s reelection campaign, Donald J. Trump for President.

She was speaking in one of two briefings the Trump campaign held for journalists Tuesday morning, essentially offering the “Stop the Madness” protests as a short-term response to pressure moderate Democrats in swing districts, such as U.S. Reps. Charlie Crist and Stephanie Murphy, while the long-term strategy focuses on organizing ground operations nationally, while pushing the messaging of a booming economy.

The campaign contented to brush the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as not serious or valid, and not a threat to the President’s reelection efforts, but rather an opportunity to provoke vulnerable Democrats into wavering or risk losing their own reelections.

In the past two weeks a joint effort of the Trump campaign, the Republican National Committee, and state and local Republican parties have targeted 60 such Democrats, with the protests and some with spot advertising, mostly through digital buys. That is to continue at least through the end of the month, with another $350,000 in ad buys.

“There really is no validity here and if the Democrats want people to take this seriously they would have a vote in the house and they haven’t done that yet,” Lara Trump said of impeachment efforts. “That said, I think our job in the campaign continues to be reminding people about why this President is so good for this country.”

Senior campaign advisors assured journalists that the Trump reelection campaign, together with the RNC, is putting together a field operation expected to have 50 percent more field offices than what Trump’s campaign had in the 2016 election; 2.5 times as many volunteers as in ’16, or more than 2 million this time; 90,000 “super volunteer” neighborhood team leaders; and up to 30,000 highly-trained “Trump Victory Leadership” volunteers who could transition to paid staff, or six times as many as were trained in ’16.

Officials said it is the largest presidential campaign in history.

Scott Powers

Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years’ experience, mostly at newspapers such as the Orlando Sentinel and the Columbus Dispatch. He covers local, state and federal politics and space news across much of Central Florida. His career earned numerous journalism awards for stories ranging from the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster to presidential elections to misplaced nuclear waste. He and his wife Connie have three grown children. Besides them, he’s into mystery and suspense books and movies, rock, blues, basketball, baseball, writing unpublished novels, and being amused. Email him at [email protected].


6 comments

  • Sonja Fitch

    October 15, 2019 at 1:27 pm

    OMG. Trump is evil. Trump lies and lies. Laura is a kool aid drunk of goptrumper Cult.

  • D-U-M-P T-R-U-M-P !!!

    October 15, 2019 at 3:15 pm

    This woman’s only formal education and training came when she briefly attended a for-profit cooking school in NYC! For crying out loud – what POSSIBLE expertise could she possibly have in order to qualify to be an inner-circle advisor to a presidential election campaign? This whole Trump thing is really, REALLY demented! It’s like watching a crime family running totally off the rails!

    • Patti

      October 16, 2019 at 8:21 am

      Sorry but it is the democrats that are the bad folks. You indignant people wouldn’t know an honest, kind, person ever. Your perspective is so off base and hatred filled, that is why, you cannot see the good in Trump! Well there are more peeps that do see his good. We need to ignore you. Lara Trump is a winner.

  • gary

    October 15, 2019 at 4:16 pm

    Lara is a boss! She speaks the truth…

    Dems are idiots!

  • SANDYO

    October 17, 2019 at 11:50 am

    “..are pursuing a longer term strategy that assumes that what Lara Trump called “impeachment hysteria” will die down by next fall’s elections.”

    THAT’S THE GOP DREAM just like all their other dreams of running Constitution into the ground; giving America away to Russia,et al; continuing to bow at the appearance of trump in Any Way that appeases him!

    GOP: GROUP OF PUSSYCATS…so Afraid of a president who should be janitor that they lie, contort, deceive, …and cry under their beds a whole lot!

    Don’t worry, GOP, trump is on his way out to pasture. You, tho, will be out there, too, for AIDING AND ABETTING! SURE WILL!

    • gary

      October 18, 2019 at 3:23 am

      You are insane!

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