One person filling some of the fundraising leadership void left by Trump: Sheldon Adelson, the party’s largest contributor, who is preparing for possible headwinds ahead of 2018, according to a person with knowledge of his plans.Īdelson has begun sounding out other contributors, such as the Ricketts family, on forming a new super PAC that would focus on governors’ races and state legislative races ahead of the next redistricting cycle in 2020. But that gameness does not extend the party’s well-heeled class of givers, whom Trump scorned during much of the campaign and still to this day see Trump as an imperfect vehicle for a number of policy wins that appear increasingly out of reach.
Trump has earned plaudits from Republican lawmakers for his heavy touch and willingness to call at all hours of the day to hear their thoughts. “The way they got elected was not the way Romney built his campaign.” “I don’t think he spends his time reaching out to donors,” Spencer Zwick, a much-heralded fundraiser for Romney and House Speaker Paul Ryan, said in an interview. Where Romney revels in the admiration of his fundraisers, Trump appears to shirk it. And so the annual gathering of Romneyworld here at a ski lodge resort served as a vivid reminder of the chasm that persists between the Republican Party’s – and Romney’s – donor base and the leader of the GOP. The White House sent no official emissaries to one of the GOP’s A-list donor summits. None of those hikers came from the Trump administration – and few, for that matter, even hear from them these days. The same can’t be said of President Donald Trump. If the former private equity executive is at home anywhere, it is here – among more than 200 of his donors and high-wattage friends.
Just walking,” said Romney, flashing the same mischievous half-smile that he would don 30 yards later, when the 70-year-old began to jog the Wasatch Mountains switchbacks – uphill. “All right, guys, the old man is here,” he whooped to Ron Kaufman, one of his close advisers, as Kaufman faked a limp ahead of a four-mile hike at dawn Friday. Mitt Romney had barely disembarked from the Silver Lake Express lift when the glad-handing and ribbing began in earnest.
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