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It\u2019s been an awful week for Donald Trump and the GOP as headline after headline has come out revealing how Republicans\u2019 ground game across the country is skeletal, struggling for cash and shutting down offices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder Trump, MAGA Republicans\u2019 disorganization and chaos are leaving their infrastructure and ground game in the dust, but that\u2019s no surprise considering these are the same extremists that are making election denialism a litmus test for employment,\u201d DNC spokesperson Rhyan Lake said.<\/strong> \u201cCoupled with their extreme agenda to rip away Americans\u2019 freedoms and drag our country backward, the GOP has a losing message and flailing operation. The contrast couldn\u2019t be more stark as Democrats in critical battleground states and beyond are unified, fortified, and ready to defeat MAGA Republicans once again.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the latest:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AP<\/a>: Trump slow to invest in states that could decide election as some in GOP fear \u2018skeleton\u2019 campaign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Trump campaign and its partners at the Republican National Committee haven\u2019t yet made significant general election investments in the state, according to Michigan Republican Party Chairman Pete Hoekstra. The national committee, he said, hasn\u2019t transferred any money to the state party<\/strong> to help bolster its operations heading into the general election. There are no specific programs in place to court voters of color<\/strong>. And there\u2019s no general election field staff in place.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the skeleton<\/strong> right now,\u201d Hoekstra said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to put more meat on it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s much the same in presidential battleground states across the country, according to Republican operatives and party officials involved in campaign planning elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIndeed, just six months before the first early votes are cast in the general election between Trump and Biden, Trump\u2019s Republican Party has little general election infrastructure to speak of<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: Trump’s RNC struggles in swing states as Biden’s team grows<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Trump-led Republican National Committee is scrambling<\/strong> to boost staffs and give loyalty tests in seven battleground states at a time when several GOP state parties are plagued by dysfunction and disarray.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy it matters: Less than eight months before the Nov. 5 election, significant parts of the RNC’s get-out-the-vote operation in states likely to decide the election are playing catch-up<\/strong> after Trump’s team ousted 60 staffers in its recent takeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe big picture: Many Republicans fear the RNC upheaval \u2014 and unrelated chaos in state parties<\/strong>, particularly in swing states Michigan and Arizona \u2014 is a setback for a party that for years has tried to get more volunteers to recruit support in their neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MSNBC<\/a>: Trump\u2019s RNC arrangement could suck the life out of state GOP chapters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOver the last couple years, several local Republican Party chapters have fallen into financial ruin<\/strong>, in many cases after squandering their money promoting Donald Trump\u2019s bogus allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow the former president\u2019s new fundraising arrangement with the Republican National Committee could worsen the GOP\u2019s financial woes<\/strong> at the local level, according to NBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo state parties will be last in line to receive funding. And that\u2019s bad news for the many state-level GOP chapters<\/strong> \u2014 including several in potential swing states \u2014 that have struggled to get their finances in order and looked to the RNC for help ever since 2020. Those include the Michigan GOP, the Arizona GOP, the Colorado GOP and the Minnesota GOP, just to name a few.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/a>: RNC’s former Hispanic outreach center in Milwaukee soon to become an ice cream shop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the Republican National Committee wants to reopen its Hispanic outreach center in Milwaukee this cycle, it\u2019s going to need to find a new space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe center\u2019s former location will soon be an ice cream shop.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe RNC in January told the Journal Sentinel it planned to reopen the Milwaukee center after quietly closing it and others across the country following the midterms. In recent weeks, however, several media outlets reported former President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign threw out the plans to open new minority outreach centers and revive previous locations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn RNC spokeswoman declined to answer questions about the status of its plans for the Milwaukee Hispanic center. She did not respond this week when asked if the committee was searching for another Milwaukee location now that a new tenant leased its former space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Detroit News<\/a>: Michigan Republican Party office was ‘stripped down to the bare bones,’ new leader says<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe new leader of the Michigan Republican Party says his administration is having trouble taking control<\/strong> of the state GOP’s website and tracking down computers that are reportedly worth $113,000, seven months before a pivotal presidential election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter months of internal divisions and fundraising struggles<\/strong>, members of the Michigan GOP’s state committee voted to unseat Karamo as the party’s chairwoman on Jan. 6.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios<\/a>: The AZGOP is selling the headquarters it bought 9 months ago<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter just nine months, the Arizona Republican Party’s new headquarters is about to become its old headquarters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe big picture: The AZGOP has been plagued by dysfunction and poor fundraising<\/strong> over the past few years, just as it attempts to fight back against recent Democratic political gains.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Albuquerque Journal<\/a>: RNC closed Hispanic community centers in District 2, but hasn’t given up on flipping the congressional seat<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn August 2022, the Republican National Committee opened with fanfare a \u201cHispanic community center\u201d in the South Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the center quietly closed after Election Day 2022<\/strong>, when Yvette Herrell narrowly lost her reelection bid to current Congressman Gabe Vasquez.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CT Mirror<\/a>: Will RNC reopen Black, Latino community center in CT? It\u2019s unclear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut shortly after the end of the midterm elections season, the RNC wound down many of the centers, with only a handful remaining open.<\/strong> The RNC\u2019s Black & Hispanic Community Center in New Britain shut down at the end of 2022, apparently one of the casualties.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been an awful week for Donald Trump and the GOP as headline after headline has come out revealing how Republicans\u2019 ground game across the country is skeletal, struggling for cash and shutting down offices. \u201cUnder Trump, MAGA Republicans\u2019 disorganization and chaos are leaving their infrastructure and ground game in the dust, but that\u2019s no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nRepublicans\u2019 Ground Game in the States: Strapped, Sputtering, and Shuttered - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republicans-ground-game-in-the-states-strapped-sputtering-and-shuttered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-28T15:54:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-10T16:49:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republicans-ground-game-in-the-states-strapped-sputtering-and-shuttered\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/republicans-ground-game-in-the-states-strapped-sputtering-and-shuttered\/\",\"name\":\"Republicans\u2019 Ground Game in the States: Strapped, Sputtering, and Shuttered - 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