The GOP Wants to Keep Candidates in the Dark About Trump's Unpopularity
There’s no question that President Donald Trump is the single most popular politician in the Republican Party today. But, popular or not, the Republican National Committee would would apparently prefer to keep its candidates running for local offices around the country in the dark when it comes to detailed information on just how much their communities do (or don’t) love the president.
According to Republican insiders who spoke with ProPublica for a just-published report on the transformation of the GOP into the cult of Trump, the RNC has spent the past three and a half years removing a key section of the committee’s detailed “voter scores” polling data from local party officials and candidates: how Trump himself is viewed in the specific district or state in question.