RNC Think They Can Gain Leverage Over Donald TRump.
The GOP has resources to dangle in exchange for some message discipline from its presumptive nominee.
By Daniel Strauss
02/25/16 05:14 AM EST
Updated 02/25/16 05:59 PM EST
Donald Trump has steamrolled toward the Republican nomination by lambasting all things political establishment, and now that establishment thinks it can convince their insult-wielding front-runner he needs them.
Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus has begun stating in private meetings that the party has sway over its at times unwelcome front-runner because it has tools Trump will need to use to win a general election — voter data and field, digital and media operations that a nominee typically inherits from the party infrastructure.
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