Former Trump Field Staffers Detail Iowa Team's Dysfunction

[brooklynite]

Source: Iowa Starting Line

Hollingsworth’s complaints of humiliation, stinginess, and isolation while working for Iowa Trump Victory isn’t unique. With an exceptionally high turnover in field staff working for unusually low salaries, three additional former staff members have come forward to Starting Line with disheartening experiences from the campaign to reelect the President in Iowa.

“The turnover was unusually high. That’s putting it lightly,” said a former Southeast Iowa Trump field staffer who requested anonymity. “I mean, obviously in politics you have turnover naturally. But not to the extent that I saw there … I believe Iowa Trump Victory is almost 100% turned over.”

State leadership demanded unattainable doorknocking, phone call and signature goals, every staffer said, while offering little training or expense money and upbraiding field staff for working with local contacts, among other issues.

And during a time when Iowa poll numbers show tightening margins between Trump and Vice President Joe Biden, as well as leads for Democratic Senate candidate Theresa Greenfield, the former Trump staff admitted their lack of confidence in GOP victories in Iowa this November.


Read more: https://iowastartingline.com/2020/09/29/former-trump-field-staffers-detail-iowa-teams-dysfunction/

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. GOP IN DISARRAY!!! nt

[getagrip_already]

8. said the media.... never

lol. It's all a part of the secret plan. shhhh.

[Bradshaw3]

2. Exactly like drumpf runs his businesses and the WH

Low pay, unrealistic expectations and high turnover.

And "disheartening experiences" for these poor little drumpf volunteers? Wha, wha. Not as disheartening as an immigrant mother having her baby snatched or a family watching a loved one die from Covid because drumpf's businesses must be saved. Too fucking bad for those workers.

[Mike 03]

3. Good article. Lot of details.

“When I quit, five people at least left either in the next couple of days or that week,” she said. “When I left, everybody started leaving. And now they’re pulling people in from different states to work in Iowa. Because [they have] no options,” she said. The Central Iowa organizer said she was one of the few members of Iowa Trump Victory who is from the state.

“They now have field organizers aged 17 and 18, and someone in their 60s.”

[marble falls]

4. They may get only $2,100/month but I bet they're on the books as $4,200.

[keithbvadu2]

5. And a consulting fee for Ivanka.

[marble falls]

6. without saying!

[PatSeg]

9. Oh snap!!!

[elleng]

7. 'I believe Iowa Trump Victory is almost 100% turned over."'

[niyad]

10. Sorry. Absolutely ZERO sympathy. One has to have just come here from another star system NOT

to know what it is like working for anything associated with mango mussolini.

[bullwinkle428]

11. Wait a minute - Morning Joe was telling me the door-knocking efforts on

the part of the Trump campaign were a HUGH!!1! success, and the Biden campaign needed to start getting its shit together, so they could do more face-to-face campaigning.

Are you trying to tell me they were making it all up?

[Mme. Defarge]

12. Fascinating!

[jayfish]

13. One Summer During College, I Worked For A Low-Rent Electronics Store.

One of the ones who used to advertise how crazy they and their prices were. Basically a sketchy place I would never shop at. I got an opportunity to work there and thought it couldn't be as bad as I imagined. It was weird and worse than I imagined. This story reminds me of that place.