This is dumb.

Donald Trump strips control of Florida—the nation’s biggest battleground—away from new national political director https://t.co/AFJNscxf1K

— Michael C. Bender (@MichaelCBender) May 25, 2016

He’s handing Florida over to his own hand picked political director Karen Giorno because she ran his primary campaign there.

Typically, the role of a national political director involves deciding which states to compete in and how to divide resources. Removing the largest battleground states from that portfolio is a dramatic change to the job description.

Wiley remains in charge of the rest of the electoral map, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s decision, who added that Trump has been unhappy with Wiley’s management of the political team, including clashes with Giorno in Florida.

So dumb, so stupid. This shows that Trump is already so far on the defensive in Florida that he’s desperately shaking up staff. Now Giorno will be in the position of having to ask Wiley for help in the Fall with phone banking and out of state canvassing resources. What should be one seamless organization just fractured significantly before the general election has even really begun.

“We had an overwhelming win in Florida, and this state is personal for Mr. Trump,” Giorno said in an interview. “He wants to win. I have a record of winning, and we’re going with a winning team.”

Giorno declined to say how many staff she’ll hire in the state or to discuss the size of the budget, adding that the particulars are still being discussed internally. She said she hoped to bring on staff with experience working with the Florida Republican Party, the Republican National Committee or former presidential campaigns.

They clearly don’t get how a national campaign works. This is the kind of libertarian business philosophy that destroyed Sears, creating pointless feudalistic territory divisions within an organizational structure and encouraging competition instead of cooperation.

So.fucking.dumb.