Now that the drive for the 2024 Republican Party presidential nomination has kicked into high gear, advance people and campaign workers representing Donald Trump are alienating local GOP leaders with their brash tactics and by being argumentative with voters who don't back their man.
According to a report from the Daily Beast, Republicans in the key early primary state of New Hampshire are furious with the former president's advocates who have flooded the state.
As the Beast's Jake Lahut reported, at a recent parade "two over-eager Trump campaign staffers" charged to the front to hold up their signs for the former president in front of supporters of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).
The report notes, "the move left an impression among plugged-in Republicans, who were buzzing about the slight in the days following the Fourth," with one local GOP official complaining the stunt was "juvenile" and then adding, "They should have been down there with their team. I mean, that’s just tacky.”
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Add to that, the Trump outreach to GOP voters and independents is making enemies.
"Volunteers are also frequently getting into arguments while knocking on doors of undecided voters and Republicans supporting other campaigns," Lahut reported, with a local Republican who supported Trump in 2016 and 2020 complaining, "They are so busy picking fights and alienating people. Tim Scott, Vivek, Will Hurd—everybody else is pleasant with each other, but these guys are huffing and puffing and glaring at each other… They don’t know how to play nice in the sandbox even though somebody else has a different toy.”
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