gets that wall funding. he says the democrats have been told and fully understand there can be no doca without desperately needed wall and end to the chain migration and ridiculous lottery system of immigration. we must protect our country at all costs. everyone knows the president wants to get that wall built. but at the same time, democrats have made it clear they want doca to be fixed on its own, separate from all these other immigration issues. the president making it clear before they come to the new year he wants those issues to be married together. it is unclear how that will affect how things go with that issue. what about this expected shake-up in the west wing? what s happening staffing-wise? well, we have been hearing a lot of complaints over the last several months about the white house political office and the need for that office to be beefed up. we have learned in the last few minutes that the aid currently
was elevated to that of associate president. so i don t think we re going to see that with the trump presidency. but it has been that strong in the past. staffing-wise, how does it work if she s here in new york? would you expect her staff, her secretary, her assistants to remain in washington, d.c.? the first lady s side of the white house is the east wing. it s huge. i mean, she most first ladies have 25 full-time staff, some of them borrow from agencies and don t have to pay them that way the agency continues to pay. but it s a huge operation. it deals with the social side of the white house but also the publicity for the first lady, sending out autograph pictures of the president and the children and scheduling speeches and so forth. much of that is institutionalized. betty ford, who went into the white house on very short notice, remember, after president nixon resigned, she said that the east wing really
hill but less to 270 than a week ago, but you hear things like that from state after state after state, romney had a good operation. didn t do well in early voting but a pretty good operation and couldn t. won north carolina. only close one. lost florida close, ohio close some other ones close. a critical point hearing trump say go change your vote. the question, can they turn out votes? romney s operation on the day, on election day, orca. electronic operation completely failed. and trump s staffing-wise, the number 3-1, 4-1. clinton staffers to trump staffers on the ground. a big advantage. cliche among the ground game operatives like a field goal team. you know? it s there at the very end if you need a few points, but otherwise, the field operation doesn t make a huge difference in this camp for he needs a few points in just about every state. crazy in the final days making campaigns a ton of fun.