It's official: The Republican Party is now the Trump Party. There's no running away from him now for Republicans in 2020. The Trump campaign is getting ready to "roll out an unprecedented structure for his 2020 reelection" which entail swallowing up the Republican National Committee to make it part of one entity—Trump's. This is the first time a president from either party has officially taken over the parallel organization of the party for a campaign. They traditionally have final say on party officials and many of the aspects of the national campaign conducted by the party organs, but the national committees have always maintained a separate structure.
Not anymore, not for Republicans, anyway. They say that the "goal is to create a single, seamless organization that moves quickly, saves resources, and—perhaps most crucially—minimizes staff overlap and the kind of infighting that marked the 2016 relationship between the Trump campaign and the party." Also, they say, it will give Republicans an "organizational advantage" over Democrats, who are going to have a robust and probably contentious primary, because they always are.
This is going to make it much more difficult for any potential challenger to Trump, provided he's still around to be running for re-election in 2020. For that, it's getting blasted (indirectly) by the one guy who is talking out loud about primarying Trump. Ohio Gov. John Kasich delegated his statement to adviser John Weaver, who says "There are some people who choose for whatever reason to handcuff themselves to the Titanic,. […] Why, I have no idea."
And this sounds familiar:
For all the chaos surrounding the administration, those involved in the campaign insist they’re having no problem finding people interested in jobs.
“I get inundated with résumés from not only operatives, but people who just want to volunteer,” Carr said. “We’re not going to have a shortage of people with good résumés, that’s for sure.”
Inundated. Everyone wants to work for Trump. Mick Mulvaney is going to have a really busy two years.