New Hampshire is made up of two generally strong dispositions inside the Republican apparatus. This is a similar state operation to the Wisconsin structure of corporate club republicanism. Wisconsin and New Hampshire GOPe are very similar to each other. [POLLING DATA]
In New Hampshire, you have the traditional control apparatus (Bush group) and the voting base of Republicans (TP/MAGA centric); the two groups are deadlocked in a battle for control. Essentially, the party apparatus vs the will of the people.
In 2016, using the ground organization of Corey Lewandowski, the Trump team was able to overwhelm the club apparatus in New Hampshire and give the TP/MAGA voices the directional power. The party apparatus does not like that and has been fighting back ever since.
The billionaire class have been looking for a savior, some candidate that can supplement the DC Lawfare attack against Trump and provide an alternative. They have failed miserably. In part, their failure is because the traditional billionaire club control apparatus talks to themselves inside an echo chamber; much like the DC beltway, the professional Republicans just don’t understand the issues and dynamics of core Main Street, core MAGA voters.
WE THE PEOPLE continue to overwhelm the GOPe apparatus, because we refuse to be controlled. It’s a new era, the message is understood; the awakening is well underway… old schemes like the plans used to destroy the Tea Party will not work because there are more people paying attention to the accurate aspects of U.S. politics.
DeSantis was the GOPe foil; everything planned to enhance and support the DeSantis candidacy was planned long ago. Long before the DeSantis campaign launched, the RGA/RNC and Sea Island billionaire donors had that plan well in place. The 2022, a $20 million contribution from the RGA to DeSantis was part of that laundry mechanism to provide support for a 2024 presidential bid.