Presidential campaigns consultant Craig Shirley penned an editorial advising Donald Trump to get new advisors to win the 2024 election.
In a TownHall opinion essay, Shirley said the pieces are in place for the former president to retake the Oval Office but only if he shakes up his campaign staff. He opined that Trump doesn’t need to be surrounded by people who only know how to lose elections. He advised America’s 45th president to lean on former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Shirley called Gingrich the smartest person in American politics today. “He is polished, articulate, knowledgeable of laws and legislation, and can provide Trump and — by extension — the entire GOP with ideas they’ll need to gain control of Washington if they win the House, Senate, and White House back in the coming years,” said Shirley.
“The Rudy Giulianis and Sydney Powells of the world definitely need to be banished permanently from Mar-a-Lago along with anyone else who thinks it will benefit Trump to relitigate the 2020 election,” stated Shirley, adding, “They don’t know politics.” The presidential advisor noted that election is over and said Trump should figure out how he can win in 2024 and forget harebrained schemes to overturn Biden’s win.
That seems like good advice since President Biden would be out of office by the time any possibly successful election litigation could conclude. So, his advice to concentrate on the future seems sound.
“The vast majority of voters care more about what will make their lives easier and put food on their table than they do about convoluted election cases,” said Shirley, who called Biden the worst president since Jimmy Carter.
“He goes into a town and bridges collapse,” mocked Shirley. “Regardless of who ends up being the Republican standard bearer, that person will need competent advisors for their campaign.”
“At the end of the day Americans want competency, and surrounding himself with competent people will go a long way for Trump when it comes time for Americans to cast their vote in the next presidential election.”
He said Trump’s 2016 victory was mostly due to his own campaign strategy and attracted massive crowds and free media airtime because his candidacy was treated as a novelty.
Shirley trotted out a saying he learned when he worked for the New York Racing Association: “A good jockey cannot make a bad horse win, but a bad jockey can make a good horse lose.”
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