"A well-meaning adviser to Donald Trump recently told the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that he needed to bulk up his campaign staff to get his message out faster.
Trump was told to hire a rapid response person to deal with negative stories in the press.
“I am the rapid response person,” Trump shot back.
The anecdote, relayed to The Hill by former Speaker Newt Gingrich, illustrates an essential truth to Trump’s campaign: He sees himself as his own best strategist, and is reluctant to take advice from a political class he ran roughshod over during the GOP primary.
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But Hunter is under no illusions that he's having much influence over Trump's decision-making.
“I think he mostly listens to himself and that's that,” said Hunter, one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump.
“I'm not kidding,” he added through a laugh. “When he gave his speech [on Tuesday night] with a teleprompter — I am surprised he lets someone write him anything.”
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In a typical presidential campaign, “there's somebody who raises money, somebody who thinks about strategy, somebody who thinks about media,” he added. “Everything's delegated and they operate within a box.”
But Trump, who sends off rapid-fire tweets and calls into morning shows to fight back on the issues of the day, is the master strategist in all these arenas, which makes him effectively a one-man band — something unprecedented in modern politics, Gingrich said.
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And while the establishment is comforted by Teleprompter Trump, nobody thinks it will become a fixture on the campaign trail.
“I think people might try to rein him in and he probably tells them to go to hell,” said Hunter."
thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/282939-trump-takes-his-own-advice-frustrating-gop
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