I think probably everybody at this table's belief was that eventually people are going to get tired of his stick, his act.

Because it's like an act.

It's not like an act.

It is an act.

It's a schick.

You can tell you're retired from politics, by the way.

Yeah.

I know.

Right.

928 isn't matter.

No one's paying me to kiss Donald Trump's ass anymore.

Seated around a table, inside the skull room at the civil cigar lounge in northwest Washington, D.C., four of the losing Republican campaign managers from 2016.

You should give out a cell phone number.

And you couldn't pay me enough to kiss Donald Trump's ass.

And I'm Tim Alberta, Chief Political Correspondent for Politico Magazine.

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party's nomination and the right to challenge President Trump next November.

And there's a very small universe of individuals who understand what it's like to run in that

environment, to have President Trump looming over the proceedings, to have upwards of 20 people competing

for a party's presidential nomination, to be testing the old political tactics against

a new social media-driven political environment.

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