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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

10 Nov

NEW - Amid his team's efforts to counter wide vote leads by Biden in an already-called race, Trump is planning to form a leadership PAC in bid to keep some control in GOP nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/…

@jonathanvswan

As @jonathanvswan reporter, the president has told people since the race was called that if it gets certified for Biden, he will likely announce he’s serious about 2024, potentially freezing the field nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/…

A leadership PAC couldn’t be used for a Trump campaign. But it could let him pay for travel, consultants, pollsters etc nytimes.com/2020/11/09/us/…

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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

3 Nov

Per two sources, the campaign has a "war room" set up in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. Trump is also going to be briefed in the residence and the Oval Office throughout the day by officials.

The campaign is said to be funding the operation.

Still, the building is taxpayer space and it's not clear how this works out under the Hatch Act.

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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

2 Nov

"I called John. John McLaughlin. He's like the dean," Trump says of one of his pollsters.

The crowd has been mostly silent as the president has gone on an extended riff about how unfair the media polling is to him. Then he starts listing Fox News hosts and the crowd gets animated.

"I hope I haven't bored you...I thought it was interesting," Trump says of the polls rant. "To me it was interesting." Now talking about the whether in the upper MW.

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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

1 Nov

The president treats polling that shows him trailing as if it’s made up. Yet his campaign has spent millions for some of the most sophisticated data available. A look at the data the campaign is using nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…

The campaign shook up its polling team last year after some data leaked. Fabrizio and McLaughlin were the pollsters. After taking over the campaign in July, Stepien quietly hired Bill Skelly for data analytics and Brock McCleary for polling. nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…

There’s also Matt Ozchowski, the former Cambridge Analytica official who is known as “Oz” and who has maintained to other officials that the polling is overly grim nytimes.com/2020/11/01/us/…

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Maggie Haberman

@maggieNYT

29 Oct

Kayleigh McEnany has suddenly been appearing from the Trump campaign HQ on TV as both a White House press secretary and a campaign senior adviser, encapsulating the ignoring of the Hatch Act and total blurring of lines in the administration nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…

A campaign official said that shows that air interviews with her have been instructed not to use her White House title. However, Fox News introduced her as both the other day. nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…

When Obama was president and running in 2012 Carney would brief reporters in a WH capacity while Psaki would do it in a campaign capacity. They made a point of keeping the separation nytimes.com/live/2020/10/2…

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