chris carr joined us from nevada in 2013.ou with a romney state director in 2012 election and chris saw first in some of the tools he wished over ron at the ticket had had in 2012 the would've aided in making sure we a better turnout in 2012 and chris the following two years in the 2014 cycle opening up a voter registration company in nevada to register more republican voters. and so the chairmen aggressively appointed chris, and i really feel that chris is the best political director in the country. he is complete revamp the way the rnc does political and ground game. he will share that with you now. >> appreciate it. welcome, guys. welcome to the rnc. thank you for coming out to the briefing today. just a couple of things about the change in the field program. really getting back to the 2004 election which was the last time republicans had won a presidential election. we went and basically did research on lessons learnt in '04, what we did well. we also very carefully look at the obama campaign had them both awake and in 12

the action, the main part of it, i will turn it back over to katie to introduce chris carr. katie: chris carter joined us from nevada. he was the one the state director for nevada and i think he saw first hand some of the tools he wished they would have had in 2012 to aid and make sure we had better turnout. company,p a better organization in nevada to register more republican voters. the chairman aggressively courted chris to be our political directory and i really feel like chris is the best political director in the country. he has completely changed this and will shared with you now. >> thank you for coming out to the briefing today. a couple of things about the change. dating back to the 2004 election, the last time republicans won in election. onbasically did research lessons learned in 2004, what we did well there and we looked closely at the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. we were not using the data assets the rnc has and actually had in 2008 and 2012. i have an example i will share. early recruitment and better training of staff, we were putting staff in the last 90

the action, the main part of it, i will turn it back over to katie to introduce chris carr. katie: chris carter joined us from nevada. he was the one the state director for nevada and i think he saw first hand some of the tools he wished they would have had in 2012 to aid and make sure we had better turnout. company,p a better organization in nevada to register more republican voters. the chairman aggressively courted chris to be our political directory and i really feel like chris is the best political director in the country. he has completely changed this and will shared with you now. >> thank you for coming out to the briefing today. a couple of things about the change. dating back to the 2004 election, the last time republicans won in election. onbasically did research lessons learned in 2004, what we did well there and we looked closely at the obama campaign in 2008 and 2012. we were not using the data assets the rnc has and actually had in 2008 and 2012. i have an example i will share. early recruitment and better training of staff, we were putting staff in the last 90

infrastructure, that ground game and we proved everything we were talking about, the inf infrastructure are, chris carr put together on the ground, 621 people strong, the largest ever seen, the best digital and data operation. i know a lot of folks questioned it. we proved we were right on tuesday night and that with donald trump's campaign and his message and his movement, and, frankly, the perseverance of him and mike pence never giving up and leaving everything on the field, we have a party that's going to benefit everyone up and down the ticket going forward. >> i want to play a little about the transition chair, new jersey governor chris christie, had to say about his own hopes, possibly, for a future in the cabinet when asked by savannah and matt this morning on "today." >> would you want to be chief of staff? would you want to be -- >> you don't -- >> that's called a pregnant pause, so you know. >> attorney general? >> you don't think i'm answering any of these questions, do you? you know me better than that. >> so, what about chris christie in a role? he's been such an important player behind t

i know chairman priebus and the rest of the team at the rnc, chris carr, our political director, garrettruns the digital, katie walsh, our chief of staff, have all been working tirelessly to help this campaign and i think all of us frankly just spent the last 36 hours excited and happy and we'll see where it goes from there. i know that everyone wants to make sure we help donald trump and his team be successful and -- but it's too early for any of those questions to be asked right now. >> i suspect that's a very diplomatic answer. maybe state department, maybe a role as the state department, some senior position there. we have john king with us, he has a lot of experience covering the white house over these years. he's got a question for you. >> let me echo the congratulations from wolf. i hope there's a well-deserved beach in your future before that great seat at the inauguration. you are a very smart person when it comes to messaging and strategy. i'm wondering if donald trump, the tone donald trump sets early on, you remember the early days of the obama administration. i'm not trying

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