WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump has recognized, finally, that in order to better compete with Hillary Clinton, it is more than the bare-bones campaign team takes that performed the primary endpoint. But many of the most experienced Republican political consultants are not willing to work for them.
From Texas to New Hampshire, respected members of the professional category of the Republican Party say that they do not presumptive candidate can see on their personal and professional deep reservations about the presidential.
Although there are exceptions, many fear strategists who best understand the mechanisms of presidential politics that adopting a paycheck Trump could stain your resume, range of other customers and even cause problems at home. They are also reluctant to months in a division candidate whose campaign spending plagued by infighting and disorganization.
"At the moment I feel no obligation to lift a finger to help Donald Trump," Brent Swander said Ohio officer nationwide logistics for Republican presidential campaigns coordinated George W. Bush out of the year.
"Everything we have learned that children - not intimidated, not detracting from, treat others with respect - everything that we learned as children, is the exact opposite of what is the Republican candidate as travaillez- how someone that. What can I tell my family? "asked Swander.
Trump began presidential politics with a small group of employees, a campaign for the White House written some directly from its real estate business without experience in managing. An undoubted success in the primaries of the Republican Party who meet the growing demand for a general election to fight.
As in previous years, the primary season has a group of employees created with combat experience who have worked for other candidates, including Trump would demand pull. However, hundreds of these grants have so far refused to work referrals.
Include various communication aids Chris Christie and policy adviser to the governor of New Jersey, Michael Duhaime to sign direct and indirect refusal billionaire applications.
Chris Wilson, a close associate of Ted Cruz said the Senator staff Texas paid more than 150 stimulus Trump team positions Cruz apply ignored after he left the presidential race. Wilson said that even now, a great help unemployed Cruz refuse to work for the man who called his former boss "Lyin Ted".
This is the case of Scott Smith, a Texas-based device that worked previously traveled in the presidential bids of Bush and Texas Gov. Rick Perry throughout the country Cruz event planning and.
"It is very clear that none of us will work for Trump," Smith said. "Even if I wanted to work for Trump, my wife would kill me."
Smith, like many experienced strategists for this story interviewed pointed necessary to the intense election campaigns, personal sacrifice. Many consultants do not see their families for long periods, brutal hours of work in a few hours sleep and no job security enjoy.
"May I do not feel like a mercenary off my young children be if it just for the money.": With Trump said Smith.
Trump the need for additional personnel is acute. His network negligible raising funds brought in less than $ 2 million in the past month. He only paid employee every day hundreds of inquiries from the media and deal a few swing states agents dedicated his White House bid.
Last month, fired Trump Rick Wiley, director of the campaign for governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, 2016 previous candidate was, and was taken to the national efforts get-out-the-vote work Trump. Monday, Trump fired the campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who confirmed that he lacked the experience to extend the operation of Trump.
"This country needs to grow rapidly," Lewandowski the Fox News Channel says. "It's hard work and frankly, I have never become very large."
Trump credited Lewandowski help "a lovely little country, although unified" in the first season. "I think it's time for a different kind of campaign," Trump said Fox.
Spokesman Hicks Hope campaign did not respond to several requests for comment about the recruitment campaign. A former adviser, Barry Bennett, played down personal problems, suggesting that the country should be able to double its contingent of the National Convention next month.
Trump announced four new employees last week, a Director of Human Resources, including to assist in the recruitment, a staff of about 70, compared with Clinton's paid attendance of about 700, many well-versed to complete in modern political strategy.
Trump senior team, including the head of the campaign of Paul Manafort and political director hired new Jim Murphy, are largely a legacy of more active political hands in the 1980s and 1990s, new director of Ohio campaign, Bob Paduchik, he led the government's efforts for 2000 and 2004 Bush campaigns.
A new generation of great talents actively shown little interest in Trump in recent years. In Iowa, said operational experience with Sara Craig, that does not work for Trump or even support. "I am more interested in racing back down" helped Craig, the Joni Ernst Iowa Senate Select and led a very pro-Bush political action committee said.
Ryan Williams, who worked on the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, said he was happy to work for a consulting firm, where he participated in several other elections throughout the country, as well as corporate clients.
"If you sign up for a campaign that his name. Uploads publicly Some say things in trouble Trump for people behind very hard," said Williams.
But Paduchik offered the kind of positive attitude to be expected from a country on the move.
"It was great, the response I got," Paduchik said. "Republicans in every corner of Ohio are excited about the campaign of Mr. Trump."
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Associated Press writers Thomas Beaumont contributed in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Barrow in Atlanta, and Julie Carr Smyth in Columbus, Ohio, on this report.
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