Stuart Stevens is a veteran Republican political operative who had a long career in GOP politics, culminating in his serving as lead campaign strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign.
When Donald Trump rose four years later, Stevens was among the Republican campaign veterans who broke with the party, and also among those who claimed the “never-Trump” label and stuck with it. Stevens was part of the Lincoln Project, as of 2020, but is not among its founders or most prominent public figures. Stevens published a memoir in 2020 called
Stevens has continued to rail against Trump during the 2024 cycle, and this week, the adviser unloaded on the people Trump has around him.
It started when Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung ripped Patrick Dillon, the husband of Jen O’Malley Dillon, the campaign manager for Harris’ campaign. Dillon referenced The Atlantic’s big story last week about infighting with the Trump campaign and implied that it was sourced from Trump campaign top advisers Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita. Cheung responded to Dillon’s statement by referring to him as the “cuck husband of Kamala chairperson”:
Rotund angry Trump spokesman accuses opponent’s female campaign chair of infidelity and nobody bats an eye because it’s just one more drop of repugnance in the vile Niagara of Trumpism. pic.twitter.com/a8DSVIvEPa
— Mattie Timmer (@MattieTimmer) November 4, 2024
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Stevens responded to that by pointing out the low quality of people Trump has working for him.
“There has never been a collection of just awful human beings assembled around one candidate like the Trump campaign,” Stevens said. “Like deadbeat dad Jason Miller, Lewandowski, Bannon. The whole crew. All of these people tried to work in presidential politics before 2016 and no one would come near them.”
As for Cheung, Stevens added that the spokesman “never did anything of note in politics before the Trump garbage truck picked him up, writing stuff you’d find on a bathroom wall at a truck stop.”
I’ve worked in campaigns for a long time, and known so many operatives in both parties.
There has never been a collection of just awful human beings assembled around one candidate like the Trump campaign. Here you have a 42 year old obese incel @TheStevenCheung, who never did… https://t.co/C1qiPJf6B9
— Stuart Stevens (@stuartpstevens) November 4, 2024
Stevens went on to warn that should Trump win the election, those same people would likely end up back in the White House.
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