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Craig Shirley said Trump needs to talk to different people if he wants to win the next election. Because he was an outsider the first time, the press and the Democrats didn’t take him seriously but Americans did. Shirley wrote about Reagan and how he cleaned house after losing in 1976. It helped that Hillary Clinton was terrible. Trump concentrated on Democrat states while Clinton took them for granted.
Trump needs new people
The stakes are different. Shirley opened with, “At a critical point in the 1980 campaign, Ronald Reagan had enough and cleaned house of his senior political advisors including campaign manager John Sears. One staffer would later recall, ‘Ronald Reagan would not have come so close in 1976 had he not hired John Sears; and Ronald Reagan would not have won the GOP nomination had he not fired John Sears in 1980.’”
The free media airtime Trump received in 2016 that was all but poking fun at him isn’t there anymore. Shirley continued, “As it does on so many occasions, history repeats itself. Like Reagan before him, Donald Trump now must clean house if he hopes to make a serious political comeback.”
Poor Trump advisors
Shirley thinks his consultants might not have been focused on the task at hand. “I know because I know many of them. Then some have the nerve to write their own autobiographies as if they themselves are important.”
Shirley said Trump can win based on what has happened with a Democrat administration:
As we approach 2024, all the right conditions are there for Trump to win again should he decide to run. Joe Biden has proven to be an unmitigated disaster in every aspect of his presidency. Crime is rampant, inflation has skyrocketed, shelves are empty, and the southern border between America and Mexico is practically nonexistent. In the realm of foreign affairs, Biden shamed the country when he disgracefully allowed the Taliban to take back control of Afghanistan and abandoned hundreds of Americans still stranded in that godforsaken country, while simultaneously allowing our adversaries to run circles around us. Don’t get me started on the stupidity of Ukraine.
In short, Trump has the perfect recipe to win again, but all that means nothing if he doesn’t get his own house in order first.
Watch your consultants
The New York Racing Association Shirley once worked for had some words of wisdom, “A good jockey cannot make a bad horse win, but a bad jockey can make a good horse lose.”
Shirley noted the need for vigilance with the people you hire, “Campaigns are fresh and campaigns are stale. Campaigns need new personnel, new ideas and new initiatives. And Trump’s is no exception. As my old boss Terry Dolan was fond of saying, ‘never forget the first three letters of the word ‘consultant.’ And yet pollsters and consultants have become millionaires out of their malpractice.”
Shirley has suggestions
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich knows his stuff. He’s also a good friend. Gringrich is, “polished, articulate, knowledgeable of laws and regulation.” He can help Trump and fellow Republicans, “and by extension the entire GOP with the ideas they’ll need to gain control of Washington if they win the House, Senate, and White House back in the coming years.”
He doesn’t think it would be smart to have somebody on his team that would put the 2020 election on trial again. He needs to focus on the future, leave the past alone. The future has enough to deal with.
Biden is terrible
Focus on what Trump can do that Biden has proven himself unable to do. Shirley finished with, “Joe Biden is the worst president on the books since Jimmy Carter. He goes into a town and bridges collapse. Regardless of who ends up being the Republican standard bearer, that person will need competent advisors for their campaign. At the end of the day Americans want competency, and surrounding himself with competent people will go a long way for Trump when it comes time for Americans to cast their vote in the next presidential election.”
Trump’s best bet is to look over your team and what new people can be brought on. “Biden has given Trump a target-rich environment and he does not need to be distracted by bad pollsters and bad consultants.”