“Buttoned-up” and “conventional” are hardly ideas that come to mind when thinking about Donald Trump’s presidential campaigns, but observers across the political spectrum have struggled not to notice a different feel to Trump 2024.
The evolution has been stark. In 2016, lack of experience, leaks, firings and controversy battered an ahead-of-its-time campaign strategy that ultimately carried Trump over the goal line. Four years later, a Trump campaign under the cloud of a global pandemic proved too sluggish to tackle the myriad of new voting measures Biden’s machine managed to exploit to the fullest.
In and around the campaign, insiders are dissecting the 2024 operation. The transformation, they told the Daily Caller, boils down to personnel and messaging.
“He has put together in 2024, a group of competent loyalists, who are also, I think he’s thrown around the term ruthless killers, something along those lines around, which should make all of us very happy,” Ned Ryun, CEO of American Majority Action and a longtime Trump ally who served on the administration’s 1776 Commission, told the Daily Caller.
