Subject: Negative Clips 5.19.2016
From: "Price, Jenna" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Palermo, Rachel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 04:31:41 -0700

NEGATIVE-REPUBLICANS

This is how fascism comes to America<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/this-is-how-fascism-comes-to-america/2016/05/17/c4e32c58-1c47-11e6-8c7b-6931e66333e7_story.html>

WASHINGTON POST // ROBERT KAGAN

The Republican Party’s attempt to treat Donald Trump as a normal political candidate would be laughable were it not so perilous to the republic. If only he would mouth the party’s “conservative” principles, all would be well. But of course the entire Trump phenomenon has nothing to do with policy or ideology. It has nothing to do with the Republican Party, either, except in its historic role as incubator of this singular threat to our democracy. Trump has transcended the party that produced him. His growing army of supporters no longer cares about the party. Because it did not immediately and fully embrace Trump, because a dwindling number of its political and intellectual leaders still resist him, the party is regarded with suspicion and even hostility by his followers. Their allegiance is to him and him alone. And the source of allegiance? We’re supposed to believe that Trump’s support stems from economic stagnation or dislocation. Maybe some of it does.

Donald Trump’s Immigration Plan: Big Promises, Bigger Doubts<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/20/us/politics/donald-trump-immigration.html>

NEW YORK TIMES // JULIA PRESTON, ALAN RAPPEPORT AND MATT RICHTEL

Big promises are to be expected from presidential candidates, but reality often intrudes. The elder George Bush broke the “no new taxes” pledge that helped lead to his election. And Barack Obama’s administration has yet to live up to his prediction that his nomination would go down in history as the moment “when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.” Donald J. Trump’s vow to restore what he says is America’s lost luster, while perhaps not as flowery, comes with campaign promises that are equally grandiose. But Mr. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has typically provided scant details on how he might make good on his promises — and ambitious ideas, even the concrete kind, do not always add up. Central to Mr. Trump’s campaign, and to his national security strategy, is his intent to clamp down on illegal immigration, using a vast deportation “force” to relocate people to the other side of a wall, funded by Mexico, that would stretch nearly the length of the southern border.

Why Senate Republicans Are Worried About the RNC<http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/senate-republicans-worried-rnc>

ROLL CALL // ALEX ROARTY

Senate Republican operatives are worried that the Republican National Committee will be unable to make key investments in important battlegrounds if it doesn’t find a way to replenish its depleted coffers. At the end of March, the RNC had $16 million on hand , according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission, half the amount it had at a similar point in the last presidential race. More startling is the RNC actually has less money than the National Republican Senatorial Committee, whose fundraising usually lags far behind the national party’s. The Senate GOP’s political arm had $20 million on hand as of March 31 – $4 million more than the RNC. Officials at the national party dispute that they have a fundraising problem. They say the committee is raising record amounts of cash and spending it on a robust field operation. Other Republicans are also confident that now that the RNC this week signed a joint fundraising agreement with Donald Trump , its fundraising will grow exponentially. But those hopes have been met with skepticism among the men and women running Senate Republican campaigns, who rate the RNC’s cash situation as a top concern.  Several agreed to speak to Roll Call but asked that their names not be used, fearing reprisal from the committee.

Republicans' new reality: Forever Trump<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-republican-party-supporters-223341>

POLITICO // KYLE CHENEY

Donald Trump’s Republican doubters like to think of him as an aberration, a one-time dalliance with a candidate who, once he’s defeated this fall, will be swept off the stage, leaving the GOP back in their rightful hands. They’re already wrong: Even if Trump never sets foot in the White House, his stamp on the Republican Party will linger long past 2016. Trump’s primary run spurred a string of like-minded allies to ride his coattails into positions of power within the Republican party, including seats on the Republican National Committee. With or without Trump, they — coupled with a host of conservative rabble-rousers swept in with the help of Ted Cruz — already marshal enough power within the party to change its course, whether the GOP establishment likes it or not. Adding staying power to the 2016 rebellion is the fact that many of the incoming RNC members have won 4-year terms, virtually guaranteeing they’ll exert significant influence over the Republican Party through the 2020 presidential election and possibly long after.