Conventional wisdom would seem to dictate that, if you’re running for president in a contested primary, you probably want to remain on good terms with popular and successful members of your own party. You would particularly want to seek the favor, or at least avoid the open enmity, of governors who have a lot of leverage within the state party and are typically well regarded even by those voters who do not closely follow events in Washington. You’d be especially careful when those governors have repeatedly won elections in key early-primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire.
But if you think this way, you’re not Donald Trump.
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