The speaker is expected to win easily, but that hasn’t stopped a half-dozen former Trump hands from working for his GOP opponent in next week’s primary.
JANESVILLE, Wis. — With the relationship between Paul Ryan and Donald Trump already increasingly fraught, POLITICO has learned that a group of former Trump campaign hands is quietly working to defeat the House speaker in his primary election next week.
More than half a dozen of Trump’s former campaign staff members or leading volunteer organizers from around the country — and many more local volunteers — have signed on to the long-shot campaign of Ryan’s primary challenger, businessman Paul Nehlen, who openly embraces Trump and casts Ryan as an impediment to Trump’s agenda.
While they were not sent by Trump — in fact, most of the staffers had been laid off by his shoestring primary campaign or left amid infighting — their re-emergence in Ryan’s Southeastern Wisconsin district is notable.
Nehlen’s relatively small campaign appears to have collected the largest concentration of former Trump staff and volunteer advisers, with some acknowledging they see the effort to defeat Ryan as a continuation of the bitter fight Trump waged against the GOP establishment.
The migration to Nehlen’s team also suggests that Trump’s presidential campaign may be spawning a new crop of operatives outside tight-knit GOP consulting circles. And it hints at the depth and persistence of the divide between Trump’s supporters and the party establishment.
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SCOOPS: 1/2 dozen former Trump staffers r in Wis. trying to unseat @SpeakerRyan. w/@kenvogel @politico https://t.co/7RUkFTIpCU
— Rachael Bade (@rachaelmbade) August 3, 2016
For those in denial about Trump’s intention to destroy the republican party, what will it take to make one a believer? He is attacking republicans, not Hillary. He is trying to take out true conservatives all across America. Yes, I’m certain his name will stay on the ballot and he’ll continue to make a show of running, but how can anybody but the most delusional still believe that he wants the WH?
Pray for righteousness to be restored and for the peace of Jerusalem
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