Ex-Romney Advisor Says Trump Campaign Can’t Handle Press Scrutiny

A former Mitt Romney advisor said on CBS Wednesday morning that the flap over Melania Trump‘ s plagiarized speech showed that the campaign simply did not have the “infrastructure” to deal with scrutiny from the press.

Dan Senor, an advisor to the Romney 2012 presidential campaign, explained to CBS’ Charlie Rose, “When you’re a candidate, particularly the nominee, you’re not responsible for only your words. You’re responsible for your spouse’s words, every surrogate, everyone who goes on television, everyone who goes up on that podium.”

He continued:

The whole campaign during the primary was effectively Donald Trump, a Twitter feed, and an advance team. That’s it. No infrastructure. And that was when they were competing in a field of 20, 30 million voters nationwide. Now in the national, in the general election you’re talking about 120, 130 million voters, plus a national press corps that’s just focusing on you or the other nominee rather than 17 candidates. So the scrutiny is intense and they don’t have the infrastructure to handle it.

Senor has previously expressed his wariness of Trump’s candidacy, musing that he had once discussed with Trump’s VP pick Mike Pence about how “unacceptable” the real estate mogul is.

“I just think this is a party that has sort of resigned to this nominee but not excited about him,” Senor told Rose.

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Sam Reisman (@thericeman) is a staff editor at Mediaite.

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