Trump Hasn’t Laid Out A Transition Plan Yet. Project 2025 Could Fill The Gap.

Even in the chaos of his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump did a few things by the book. Like all major party presidential candidates, by early summer, his campaign had a team in place to oversee the transition to the White House in the event that he won.

This time, by contrast, Trump has yet to announce a transition director. His campaign does not appear to have filed the paperwork to set up his official transition team — something his 2016 campaign accomplished on June 1 of that year— or given any other outward signal it will follow the same, well-established process as every major-party presidential campaign of the past decade.

“Trump is certainly late,” said Max Stier, the president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan group that guides presidential campaigns as they prepare for the monumental task of potentially taking over the federal government. “They should have been preparing since the spring of this year.”

Stier worked closely with Trump’s team in 2016, which he recalled as “an early, aggressive transition-planning process.”

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