美国国家公共电台 NPR For 2020, Trump Campaign Woos Big Donors Who Spurned It In 2016

 

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President Trump¹ is planning a far different campaign in 2020 than his long-shot run in 2016. Tomorrow, his team is launching a fundraising effort designed to reach the very establishment Republican donors² that Trump essentially³ pushed away last time around. Here's NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith.

TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE⁴: As candidate Trump stomped⁵ one well-funded Republican candidate after another on his way to the nomination⁶, he boasted that his scrappy campaign was funded by a combination of his own money and thousands of small-dollar donations. And he criticized his opponents' dependence⁷ on deep-pocketed donors.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: A guy like Jeb Bush or any of these guys - they're all controlled by the people that gave them the money, OK.

It's because they're donors and special interests and lobbyists, and they have total control over the people.

KEITH: But the reality is there were a lot of traditional Republican donors who simply wouldn't support Trump, even as he became the party's nominee⁸. Anthony Scaramucci was on the Trump campaign national finance committee. He remembers a fundraiser at a fancy restaurant in midtown Manhattan in June 2016.

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI: We couldn't fill the place, so I was calling every Scaramucci in the five, you know, boroughs¹⁰, in the tri-state metropolitan¹¹ area.

KEITH: He showed me the pictures on his phone. There were a lot of Scaramuccis. In 2012, Scaramucci did fundraising for Mitt⁹ Romney. And the plan was to hit up many of the same donors for Trump.

SCARAMUCCI: We were frustrated¹² because it was a very large group of never-Trumpers. It was a very large group of establishment Republican that were really swearing off the Trump campaign.

KEITH: Compared to Hillary Clinton and previous Republican nominees¹³, Trump's ability to raise large-dollar donations was downright anemic. An NPR analysis finds Clinton had more than 50,000 donations at the maximum allowed under federal law. Romney had more than 70,000 maxed-out donations. And Trump, in 2016, had just 8,000. Jack¹⁴ Oliver helped raise money for George W. Bush and later, Jeb Bush. But with Trump as the nominee in 2016, he sat out the general election. Now, though, Oliver is back in the fold, advising the Trump campaign on a fundraising strategy known as bundling, an effort to scoop¹⁵ up as many $2,800 checks as possible.

JACK OLIVER: Campaign has been very clear they want everybody that wants to be supportive of the president and vice¹⁶ president to have an opportunity to be involved. The campaign has been very welcoming.

KEITH: Oliver will be at the Trump Hotel in Washington, D.C., tomorrow when the Trump campaign kicks off its bundler program. Supporters will be asked to raise at least $25,000 by gathering¹⁷ donations from others. At different levels of bundling, there are various perks¹⁸, like lapel pins, access to conference calls with party leaders and invitations to leadership dinners. It's modeled after George W. Bush's successful bundling programs from 2000 and 2004. Kayleigh McEnany is national press secretary for the Trump 2020 campaign.

KAYLEIGH MCENANY: To be a sophisticated, modern-century, state-of-the-art campaign, you have to have a bundling program. You have to have small donors. You have to have joint¹⁹ committees.

KEITH: In other words, it isn't 2016 anymore. To recreate Trump's win or even expand into other states, as the campaign says it intends to do, will take a lot more money. Ronna McDaniel is the Republican Party chairwoman.

RONNA MCDANIEL: There's a recognition that we're going to need a lot of capital to build a ground game that we want, and we have that opportunity now.

KEITH: An opportunity to get more people like Jack Oliver writing checks again. The campaign isn't saying how many bundlers it hopes to have or how much it hopes to raise through the program. Tamara Keith, NPR News.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 donors   

n.捐赠者( donor的名词复数 )；献血者；捐血者；器官捐献者

参考例句：

• Please email us to be removed from our active list of blood donors. 假如你想把自己的名字从献血联系人名单中删去，请给我们发电子邮件。
• About half this amount comes from individual donors and bequests. 这笔钱大约有一半来自个人捐赠及遗赠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

5 stomped   

v.跺脚，践踏，重踏( stomp的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She stomped angrily out of the office. 她怒气冲冲，重步走出办公室。
• She slammed the door and stomped (off) out of the house. 她砰的一声关上了门，暮暮地走出了屋了。 来自辞典例句

6 nomination   

n.提名，任命，提名权

参考例句：

• John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
• Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。

7 dependence   

n.依靠，依赖；信任，信赖；隶属

参考例句：

• Doctors keep trying to break her dependence of the drug.医生们尽力使她戒除毒瘾。
• He was freed from financial dependence on his parents.他在经济上摆脱了对父母的依赖。

8 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

9 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

10 boroughs   

（尤指大伦敦的）行政区( borough的名词复数 )； 议会中有代表的市镇

参考例句：

• London is made up of 32 boroughs. 伦敦由三十二个行政区组成。
• Brooklyn is one of the five boroughs of New York City. 布鲁克林区是纽约市的五个行政区之一。

11 metropolitan   

adj.大城市的，大都会的

参考例句：

• Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
• Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。

12 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 nominees   

n.被提名者，被任命者( nominee的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She's one of the nominees. 她是被提名者之一。 来自超越目标英语 第2册
• A startling number of his nominees for senior positions have imploded. 他所提名的高级官员被否决的数目令人震惊。 来自互联网

14 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

15 scoop   

n.铲子，舀取，独家新闻；v.汲取，舀取，抢先登出

参考例句：

• In the morning he must get his boy to scoop it out.早上一定得叫佣人把它剜出来。
• Uh,one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate for me.我要一勺咖啡的和一勺巧克力的。

16 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

17 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

18 perks   

额外津贴，附带福利，外快( perk的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Perks offered by the firm include a car and free health insurance. 公司给予的额外待遇包括一辆汽车和免费健康保险。
• Are there any perks that go with your job? 你的工作有什么津贴吗？

19 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。