Last weekend at the Redstate meeting, the chairman of the Republican Committee Reine Priebus turned to the gathered crowd of hundreds of conservative activists, explaining how he transforms the RNC and tries to transform it into electoral force outside the elections outside of the year.
“We have an intracerexiated party that does not lose,” said Priebus, “and the presidential party that does not win … You must have a national party that connects when it comes to mechanics, when it comes to a ground game when it comes to data … it’s 99% of my world every day. ”
Priebus said he was trying to build a “national party that is on earth all the time.”
In 2005, as the head of the Democratic National Committee, Howard Dean launched “50 state strategy”, which was an attempt to build a democratic party in every country, at every level, in each district. Republicans ridiculed the dean’s strategy – is it not a waste of money for DNC to spend in deep red counties in Alabama? – But now, staring at the Democratic Party, which had two extensive presidential victories, RNC has undergone its own transformation.
Priebus said
Townhall that he rejects the dean’s comparison. The problem is that GOP has become a party that is simply a “cash attachment for the president”, which caused the party to be atrophy everywhere, but in several swings.
“You must be competent in all fifty states,” said Priebus
Townhall. “You have to spend a lot more money in Florida, Ohio and Virginia than maybe in Vermont. But this does not mean that you completely ignore Vermont forever, because from time to time, you are a good shot in the governor’s race. ”
“The point is that we must be a whole party. Everywhere”.
Priebus described in detail what it means to be “a party of all times” when it comes to elections in November. RNC spends money everywhere, even in places that may surprise some people. The Senate races in Louisiana, Arkansas and North Carolina are obvious, but the RNC ground game will go to unexpected places.
“I don’t think it’s a long chance, but … Minnesota from McFaddden. Monica Wehbe in Oregon, “said Priebus
Townhall. “You have Scott Brown in New Hampshire. I do not call it a long shot, but now you play with Virginia with a great candidate, such as Ed Gillespie, giving Warner a lot of trouble. This happens when you expand the map – it is very disturbing for democrats. ”
