Campaign Manager: Trump family building ‘dynasty’ for decades to come
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s campaign manager predicted Saturday that the president and his family will become “a dynasty that will last for decades,” transforming the Republican Party while hewing to conservative values.
Speaking to a convention of Republican Party delegates in Indian Wells, California, Brad Parscale also said the campaign’s goal is to build a national army of 2 million trained volunteers, far beyond the president’s 2016 organization, that in California could help the GOP retake a string of U.S. House seats captured by Democrats last year.
“The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party,” he said. “One that will adapt to changing cultures. One must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we believe in.”
Parscale later declined to elaborate on his prediction of a coming Trump “dynasty,” or whether the president’s children could become candidates for public office.
He told reporters after the speech, “I just think they are a dynasty. I think they are all amazing people with ... amazing capabilities.”
Parscale’s speech was a highlight of the weekend GOP conclave, in which party delegates sought to map out an election strategy in an increasingly Democratic state that Trump lost by over 4 million votes in 2016. Polls show the president remains widely unpopular outside California’s depleted GOP ranks.
Parscale also acknowledged the obvious — that California was not a target for Trump in the 2020 campaign. He declined to respond directly when asked by a reporter if Trump would campaign for candidates in the state known as the home of the so-called Trump resistance. He said that would be the president’s decision.
“This is not a swing state,” Parscale said to laughter from the capacity crowd.
However, he emphasized the campaign would invest heavily in the state as it builds a sprawling volunteer network that could help candidates across the ballot.
“Many of you are worried that we have written you guys off, that California doesn’t matter,” Parscale said. But “there’s a lot of work out here to be done.”
Even so, the outlook for California’s GOP in 2020 is challenging.
The party’s struggles in California over recent years are well-documented. Democrats control every statewide office and both chambers of the Legislature, while holding a nearly 4-million edge in voter registrations. Both U.S. Senate seats are in Democratic hands, and the party has a 46-7 edge over Republicans in U.S. House seats in the state.
Meanwhile, the GOP has withered to third-party status, with its voters significantly outnumbered by Democrats and independents. One would have to go back to 1988 to find a Republican presidential candidate who carried the state, George H.W. Bush.
Nonetheless, party leaders attending the convention say they plan to make an aggressive push to gain ground in 2020, including an effort to win back U.S. House seats, including several districts all or partly in Orange County, a one-time nationally known GOP stronghold southeast of Los Angeles.
“We are ready to take the fight back to the Democrats,” Republican National Committee member Harmeet Dhillon told delegates. She was followed on stage by several congressional candidates, including Young Kim, who is hoping for a rematch with Rep. Gil Cisneros in the 39th District that cuts through northern Orange County.
“We will kick his butt out,” Kim said, to hearty applause.
Parscale repeatedly urged the delegates and activists to get involved in the campaign, saying face-to-face contact was the best way to persuade voters.
A turnaround won’t be easy.
“The California Republican Party isn’t salvageable at this time,” Kristin Olsen, a former Republican leader in the state Assembly, wrote after the 2018 elections in which Democrats strengthened their grip on political power in the state.
With its numbers shriveling, the state GOP has debated for years whether the party needs to turn to the political center or right. As far back as 2007, Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned the party was “dying at the box office” and needed to claim issues usually associated with the Democratic agenda, including climate change and health care reform.
The last significant push by a Republican presidential candidate to win California was in 2000, when George W. Bush was backed by more than $15 million, then lost to Democrat Al Gore by 12 points.
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Do you mean we have a moron factory in the making ?
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A "Trump dynasty" would obviously be the end of the United States Of America.
Check your private notes John.
Giggity.
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Leaves how many millions left over????
Only a Common Core Math idiot would find anything suspicious here considering how many millions he started out with and his current salary alone could pay for the cars alone in less than two years...but don't let mere facts and math get in the way of another non-conspiracy, right????
Way to set the record straight!
I have no doubt whatsoever he's a crook. Anyone who says the Trumps are "amazing people with amazing capabilities" is a fan of personal and financial corruption.
It seems politics pays extremely well.
The toilet bowl dynasty
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The kind of bowl that the post JFK Kennedy clan drank out of like dogs 🐕? The Trump dynasty will be far better than the Kennedy dynasty.
Filing away that support and acceptance of political dynasties, along with support for lying, inhumanity, racism and corruption. That moral 'high ground' is a steaming pile!
Whataboutism at it's finest...this is about trump family and they are the toilet bowl raw sewage dynasty
the entire trump family is a school of toilet trout
toilet trout?
oops. er,... make that toilet fish.
I grant you that rum runner Joe Kennedy was as corrupt as they came and some of his progeny were no better, but the Trumps make all of them look like rank amateurs.
The Borgias were a dynasty too as were the Gottis.
The Borgias were considered the first crime family by Mario Puzo who wrote a book based on each member of the Borgia Family, it's called the Godfather. I have read a lot of about the Borgias and they are fascinating.
The tRumps are a bunch of thugs, conmen, grifters, gangsters, thieves. They pale in comparison to the Borgias.
I also find the Borgia family fascinating. My fav Borgia is Lucrezia. I am impressed that you know about Puzo and his inspiration for the GF.
On a side note, her brother Caesar was the inspiration for Machiavelli's book The Prince.
My dad gave me a book on the Borgias and their enemies. They had a lot of them. In one of the shows, HBO did a fantastic job with that series, where the Pope was poisoned, all the cardinals and bishops were praying for his death.
I think the Borgias are fascinating, too
You should read the book, The Family, by Mario Puzo, very good history of the Borgias.
Thanks for the recommendation!
I saw that series. HBO did a great job.
It was fantastic. I think they ran out of money though. It only lasted a few seasons
HBO has proven itself a force in movie and series production within the industry. Getting backers is not a problem. But I too wish it had gone on longer because according to my grandmother, I am a distant relative of one of the central characters.
I hope they do go into politics like the Kennedy's. It's so amusing to think of all the heads exploding!
Hey, if you like a failing economy run by a fascist moron with mental problems and no morals at all... By all means, vote for trump.
I would be happy if our economy continued to “fail” as it has been doing since Jan 2017 for the rest of my life.
The economy isnt much different than it was under Obama's last couple years.
You just like the fact that Trump has promised "religious liberty" to people whose freedom of religion is not under attack.
Your comments praising Trump are meaningless, as always.
Just more confirmation that people buy into the fake news, Don't dare ask to provide proof the economy is failing, the only thing you will get is "But Trump".
I think you meant 2009, but we know you would never give a Black democrat credit for anything.
And the recession isn't coming??? LMFAO!
But it's ok, you'll just blame everyone but trump after saying he is responsible for the economy over the last 3 years..
A unemployment rate of 10.0? Yeah that's a socialists dream isn't it.
Where are you getting your news from? The outlook for the next couple of years on the economy is pretty damn good actually. Of course The Balance isn't one of the partisan fake news sites , so it probably isn't that familiar a name to most. From Media Bias/Fact Check :
Well, I will give him credit for some decent "beer summits", but by the same token when do progressive leftist liberals give a Black right leaning conservative credit for anything? Fair is fair Frost.
Well to be fair, ED, there aren't many Black Conservatives, but I think Tim Scott is pretty cool.
Well at least you did not mention that loser Hurd from Texas! No way is he a conservative!
I wonder if they are paying Parscale to say they are a political dynasty. Trumpworld is a never ending source of absurdity.
Muh triggers...
You never disappoint. Your comments are all relentlessly inane.
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I have seen posters on fox fake news explain how the trumps could hold office all the way until Baron is in his 50's. Since it's unlikely that donny will win in 2020, (I didn't say it's impossible), I simply laughed at them.
I doubt that the GOP will ever control CA. again, their economy and ecology destroying policies simply are not welcome there. And before someone calls BS?
7 of the top 10 best state economies are blue states.
8 of the worst economies are red states.
Looks to me like those blue states are doing something right.
Hmmm...and where exactly in those states are the areas that drag down there economies??? What color are those areas-red or blue? I'm asking because I have heard rumors that outside of the "blue" cities that are sinking the economies of these poorly performing red states, the rest of the state communities appears to be doing just fine. Is that true?
The states are red. Not a difficult concept. But if you really want to nit-pick? I live in a blue state, third best economy in the country, the county I live in? Very red and very broke.
You can spin all you want, but at the end of the day, own it, most red states are fucking broke.
I still hold out hope that Baron will escape the insanity of his own family.
I agree. I really feel sorry for the child. He will have more than his share to live with for the rest of his life.
Haha Polotical dynasty Hahaha
I don't see Eric trump being elected for dog catcher.
He would just end up giving the dogs fleas anyway.