The US president has tasked his aides with getting him out of Washington DC and in front of voters as much as possible in the run-up to the November election.
Mr Bush, the former Republican president, spent 33 days travelling in each of his two mid-term election campaigns while Mr Obama spent 36 and around 22 days in each. The campaign blitz is the clearest sign yet that Mr Trump believes his personal charisma and record in office can help swing races in favour of the Republican Party.
M r Trump will hold at least eight rallies and 16 fund-raisers in up to 15 US states in the coming weeks, according to a source. North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nevada, Kentucky and Tennessee are all expected to be visited, with other states likely to be added.
Sources said that Mr Trump believes he can turn out the unusual coalition of supporters, which included traditional Democrat voters, that swept him into the White House in T he sources defined what success would look like for Mr Trump: Adding seats in the Senate, where Republicans hold 51 seats and Democrats 49; holding the Republican majority in the House of Representatives; and doing well in governor races.
They told us their horror stories about being heckled on the street and their struggles to get a date. The arrival of President George W.
Bush in brought a new generation of country club Republicans, and a Texas-Southern flavor, to the city. Young, diverse Obama staffers, meanwhile, were on the front lines of gentrifying historically black neighborhoods around U Street, Columbia Heights and Shaw, often preferring group houses where they lived with lots of roommates and threw raucous parties.
Regular basketball games, especially Tuesday nights at an Interior Department court, were another hallmark. The young Bush and Obama crews mustered a visible social presence in part because so many of them had bonded on the campaign trail; by the time they got to Washington, they were a crowd. Their prime stomping grounds, from the Wharf to Navy Yard, is a swath of real estate at once more sterile than the vibrant urban neighborhoods preferred by their predecessors and more sightly, with clean new apartment towers and waterfront views.
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When the Trump crowd ventures beyond those sprawling new apartment buildings, they tend toward eateries more upscale, conventional and close to work. The bar and steakhouse at the Trump International Hotel, of course, offer the most obvious safe space. Some staffers prefer the Exchange Saloon, a no-frills sports bar just west of the White House.
Even before the era of ubiquitous cellphone cameras and viral social media scandal, young White House staffers sometimes stirred up trouble in public. Trump staffers are perhaps wary of these risks.
Retrieved 19 March Southern Poverty Law Center. Even ten years one can start rationalizing. The young Bush and Obama crews mustered a visible social presence in part because so many of them had bonded on the campaign trail; by the time they got to Washington, they were a crowd. But the era of Donald Trump is—as in so many respects—different. Freedlander, David 14 March
No one wants to end up like Hope Hicks and White House staff secretary Rob Porter, whom paparazzi caught on a date this past winter. The attention was soon followed by allegations of previous spousal abuse by Porter, who quickly resigned; Hicks departed Washington soon afterward.
The caution starts high on the food chain: There are outliers, however, who choose to make a statement on the social circuit. They did, wearing their Trump affiliation on their sleeve, in one case almost literally: Caroline Sunshine, a year-old Disney Channel star turned White House press assistant, showed up at the dinner in a custom-made dress adorned with a collage of tweets and press coverage about her recent hiring at the White House.