Trump family ‘dynasty’ will ‘last for decades,’ 2020 campaign chief says
President Trump and his family represent a political movement with the potential of transforming the Republican Party, according to Brad Parscale, manager of the president’s 2020 reelection campaign.
“I just think they’re a dynasty,” Parscale told reporters after delivering a speech Saturday at the fall convention of the California Republican Party.
“I
think they’re all amazing people … with amazing capabilities,” he said,
according to the Associated Press. “I think you see that from Don Jr. I
think you see that from Ivanka. You see it from Jared. You see it from
all.”
“I
think they’re all amazing people … with amazing capabilities. I think
you see that from Don Jr. I think you see that from Ivanka. You see it
from Jared. You see it from all.” — Brad Parscale, manager of President Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
Parscale
was speaking at the end of a week that saw Ivanka Trump embark on a
trip to Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay to promote the Women's Global
Development and Prosperity Initiative; saw Republican political
strategist Rick Wilson predict in a Daily Beast column
that Donald Trump Jr. will seek and likely win the 2024 GOP
presidential nomination; and saw Jared Kushner appoint a lieutenant in
his role of crafting the president's Middle East policy, according to Politico.
Earlier
Saturday, Parscale told the convention crowd in Indian Wells that the
Trump family’s influence would likely “last for decades,” and propel the
GOP “into a new party – one that will adapt to changing cultures.
“One
must continue to adapt while keeping the conservative values that we
believe in,” he added, though when speaking later with reporters he
declined to speculate on whether any of the president’s family members
would seek elected office, the AP reported.
Then-President-elect Donald Trump, center, is flanked by daughter
Ivanka Trump and son Donald Trump Jr., at a news conference in the lobby
of Trump Tower in New York City, Jan. 11, 2017. (Associated Press)
At the California GOP convention, party delegates
sought to develop an election strategy in a heavily Democratic state
that Trump lost by more than 4 million votes in 2016. Polls show the
president remains widely unpopular there.
Parscale acknowledged
that California was not a key focus of Trump's reelection plans. "This
is not a swing state," he said, drawing laughs from the crowd.
But he noted California was the biggest source of the president's campaign donations.
The
party's struggles in California are well known. Democrats control every
statewide office and both chambers of the Legislature, while holding an
edge of nearly 4 million in voter registrations. Both U.S. Senate seats
are in Democratic hands, and the party has a 46-7 edge over Republicans
in U.S. House seats in the state.
The last significant push by a
Republican presidential candidate to win California was in 2000, when
George W. Bush was backed by more than $15 million, then lost to
Democrat Al Gore by 12 points. The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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