Candidates owe Reince Priebus a thank you for study
It’s good practice for teams, businesses, and even political parties to learn as much from failure as they do from success. That was the principle Republicans applied after losing the White House in 2012, when under the leadership of Chairman Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee launched the Growth and Opportunity Project to study how the party could be more competitive. In the 2014 midterm elections two years later, that study and the changes Chairman Priebus implemented as a result paid off in spectacular fashion. At every level from state legislatures to the Congress, the Republican Party is today objectively the strongest it has been in generations.
After the victories of 2014 and 2015, Chairman Priebus understood that the inverse of the old adage is true as well—the party has a duty to learn as much from success as it does from failure. I was honored when he asked me to lead a project to surface the “lessons learned” from these campaigns. Our report, released this week, is the result of dozens of interviews with candidates, campaign managers, and campaign staff forSenate, House, and governors’ races across the country.
The more we learned, the more we were struck with the scale of the changes Republican candidates are navigating—changes in the political environment, in the technology and tactics of campaigns, and in the strategies required to win.
Perhaps the most historic and underappreciated of these changes is the political realignment that has taken place over the past eight years.
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2 comments:
So, it fascinates me how Rience Preibus violated this whole principle during Donald Trump's campaign and where the heck he thinks the "Party" should go next!
What an idiot is my first thought, and my second thought is that following an idiot is an idiot's choice!
He's running on a broken leg, and Trump is at the helm!
A great person for VP, have seen many interviews with Newt throughout this primary process and he fits with Trump, complimenting him in many ways. Newt realizes the party's evolution and embraces it with a lot more grace than political pundits like Karl Rove.
As for Reince, he has obtained his chair position through stabbing Steele in the back and biting his way through cronie politics. Don't expect much from him. He's a mindless figurehead who has worked against Trump throughout the primaries. No use for him. He's out of touch and step with Republican values in every way.
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