1. Crushing the Never-Trumpers: They’ve “remade” the state parties in “the president’s image,” per one official — with 42 state party chair elections since the 2018 midterms. The Trump campaign isn’t tolerating anti-Trump officials in state party leadership positions in 2020.

The delegates team, Bill Stepien and Justin Clark, veterans of Trump’s 2016 campaign and the White House, spent months ensuring that Trump loyalists command key party positions across the country, muscling out those cool to him.

The campaign studied how modern-day incumbent presidents lost re-election. An important “commonality” was that the losing incumbent’s team didn’t pay enough attention to delegates and had to fight drawn-out primary campaigns, per a senior campaign official..