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Arizona Daily Sun
March 19, 2018
In reading the Associated Press article on the Tuesday Pennsylvania congressional election, I was struck by the media framing of this and other political events. Let's call it a Republican lens. ("Wake-up call for GOP," Mar. 15) When one reads today's national and local news, it is through the eyes of theÃâà...
Madison.com
March 18, 2018
“This is a scramble to the finish, but in two frying pans,” said Brandon Scholz, a Wisconsin lobbyist and former Republican consultant. “It doesn't look like they will come to agreement on a lot of bills that they couldn't find common ground.” The dispute mirrors the GOP infighting that delayed the state budgetÃâà...
HuffPost
March 17, 2018
Cohen responded early Friday to a HuffPost query about his coming filing by asking for more specifics, but then he never replied to subsequent calls and text messages. One Republican consultant close to the White House said he wasn't sure how Cohen's latest tactic serves Trump. “None of this is helpful.
TechCrunch
March 17, 2018
Last year, a handful of former Trump aides and Republican consultants dismissed the potency of Cambridge Analytica's so-called secret sauce as “exaggerated” in a profile by the New York Times. A May 2017 profile in the Guardian that painted the Robert Mercer-funded data company as shadowy andÃâà...
Texas Tribune
March 16, 2018
But some will, and here's the thing: The Democratic and Republican consultants agree on a lot of the names. Republican incumbents in Dallas County are at or near the top. That's not really a reflection on the candidates themselves. It's all about the numbers. Texas didn't see a blue wave in its MarchÃâà...
ConservativeHQ
March 16, 2018
Voters never reward you for what you have done in the past, every election is about the future – if you don't believe that see what happened to Winston Churchill. Republicans who listen to DC consultants and run content-free campaigns talking about tax cuts and what little else Congress has accomplished are going to loseÃâà...
The Week Magazine
March 9, 2018
President Trump's re-election campaign spent over half a million dollars in 2017 to rent out space on the 14th floor of Trump Tower, despite the fact that only five people appear to be on the payroll, HuffPost reports. "There's nobody there. It's like two guys," said a Republican consultant. "There is no campaign. There is noÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 8, 2018
"They still have a long way to go," said Matt Mackowiak, a Republican consultant in Austin, Texas, who contended that without Trump on the ballot in November, Democrats may yet have problems motivating voters to come out to the polls. Democrats need a net gain of two seats in the Senate and 24 seatsÃâà...
HuffPost
March 8, 2018
A Republican consultant. One Republican consultant close to the White House who is familiar with the office and its workload laughed when asked about the expense. “There's nobody there. It's like two guys,” the consultant said on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering the leader of his party. “ThereÃâà...
Chron.com
March 7, 2018
local Republican consultant Jim McGrath said. “It's your tried-and-true, dependable voters that are turning out today, but still it's a good bellwether.” In other races for Harris County administrative posts, attorney Penny Shaw was set for an easy win in the Democratic primary for Harris County CommissionerÃâà...
Raw Story
March 5, 2018
Serving as a guest host, Republican consultant and commentator Ana Navarro couldn't help but knock both men for throwing stones while living in a glass house. The woman discussed the political nature of the 90th Academy Awards and Meghan McCain was bothered by all of the jokes hitting ViceÃâà...
WXXV News 25
March 5, 2018
Christopher Nicholas, a Republican consultant in Pennsylvania, said Lamb and Saccone's divisions are instructive. “I'd wager that there's a sizable number of people who would say both approaches are reasonable and worthwhile,” Nicholas said. “It does demonstrate the smaller government vs. largerÃâà...
MyStatesman.com
March 3, 2018
... his deepest convictions are that the best steak is an overcooked one and that there's nothing that doesn't look better with his name, in all-caps, appended to it. He's a gun-grabber today. Give him a day or two, and he might think about grabbing something else. —-. Wilson is a Republican consultant and aÃâà...
Arizona Capitol Times
March 2, 2018
Republican consultant Ryan O'Daniel said that was the only real effect the scandal had on the race – it changed the margins, not the final outcome. “I think he would have finished second if the texting scandal hadn't broke. I just never really got the impression that he had the same kind of appeal with thoseÃâà...
HuffPost
March 2, 2018
One Republican consultant close to Trump's political operation said the tightening of the race in recent weeks has sparked worries of the damage to Trump should Saccone lose despite a presidential visit. “They'll wave off if the numbers don't get better,” the consultant said on the condition of anonymity.
Politico
February 20, 2018
President Donald Trump wants Pennsylvania Republicans to fight the implementation of a court-drawn congressional map that threatens a half-dozen GOP-held seats this November, but most operatives and experts see little hope in a legal challenge to the new districts. Republicans in Harrisburg andÃâà...
Washington Examiner
February 11, 2018
Republican consultant Jeff Roe is launching a new firm that offers a turnkey, ground-game-for-hire to political campaigns and is among the first to make available grassroots organizing as a professional service. The new firm, Vanguard Field Strategies, specializes in providing experienced teams of politicalÃâà...
STLtoday.com
December 31, 1999
Nonpresidential elections are “base elections,” the Republican consultant Roe said, “and you need your base fired up.” One Missouri political scientist said Hawley has a tall order in trying to finesse his relationship with Trump, who endorsed the attorney general over three other Republican primaryÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
"There was a movie once upon a time called 'Dumb and Dumber,'" said Jason Rose, an Arizona Republican consultant. "This is a race that should be called weird and weirder." Trent Franks, a Republican, resigned from the U.S. House late last year after admitting to an inappropriate relationship withÃâà...
