Priebus: We Need to Be ‘About Perfect’ to Beat Dems in 2016

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus is obviously still basking in the glow of huge Republican midterm wins this week, but he’s keeping cautious about the party’s electoral future. In comments this morning, Priebus said the GOP needs to be “almost perfect” to win in 2016.

He wants to keep staffers in big battleground states to “be three times bigger than we were in 2014.” And while Priebus is excited about the voters giving their acceptance to Republican leadership, he admitted, “I think we’ve got to be about perfect as a national party to win a national cultural vote in this country. I think the Democrats can be good and win, but we have to be great.”

And how do they do that? Well, in part, with strict message discipline and candidates not sniping at each other like in previous elections:

“I think that there is a very strong feeling among the grassroots and among many of our donors that aren’t going to put up with Republicans slicing each other apart. I think there’s going to be a high level of disdain for candidates who spend their time trying to destroy other Republicans.”

In other words, no more candidates who “go out of their way to simply just kill each other.”

[h/t TIME]
[image via Christopher Halloran/Shutterstock]

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