This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared - The Atlantic

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Joe Biden announced that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race. Read our continuing coverage. A campaign that had been optimized to beat Joe Biden now must be reinvented. On the evening of Super Tuesday, March 5, shortly before Donald Trump effectively ended the Republican primary and earned a general-election rematch with President Joe Biden, I asked the co-managers of Trump’s presidential campaign what they feared most about Biden. “Honestly, it’s less him,” Chris LaCivita told me. “And more—” “Institutional Democrats,” Susie Wiles said, finishing her partner’s thought. It was a revealing exchange, and a theme we would revisit frequently. The Democratic Party, Wiles and LaCivita would tell me in conversations over the coming months, was a machine—well organized and well financed, with a record of support from the low-propensity voters who turn out every four years in presidential contests. Ordinarily, they explained, Democrats would have structural superiority in a race l

Listen − 1.0 x + Seek 0:00 11:18 On the evening of Super Tuesday, March 5, shortly before Donald Trump effectively ended the Republican primary and earned a general-election rematch with President Joe Biden, I asked the co-managers of Trump’s presidential campaign what they feared most about Biden. “Honestly, it’s less him,” Chris LaCivita told me. “And more—” “Institutional Democrats,” Susie Wiles said, finishing her partner’s thought. It was a revealing exchange, and a theme we would revisit frequently. The Democratic Party, Wiles and LaCivita would tell me in conversations over the coming m

This Is Exactly What the Trump Team Feared - The Atlantic

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