Jeff Timmer, a longtime Republican official who opposes Donald Trump, says the Canadian government will need to treat Trump as 'the guy in charge' to protect its interests.
WATCH: Strategist Jeff Timmers was in the top levels of the Republican party for 30 years and shares his thoughts on how Ottawa should best forge a relationship with Donald Trump — and it's not pretty. Mercedes Stephenson has more.act as the “senior partner” in the Canada -U.S. relationship, even if that makes Canadians “bristle,” a prominent Republican critic of the incoming president says.
Timmer said there’s “no question that Trump is going to continue to hold NATO’s allies feet to the fire” on meeting their commitment of spending at least two per cent of GDP on defence.That will likely be a weak spot for Canada, which has said it won’t reach the target until 2032, During this year’s election, Timmer served as campaign manager and chief operations officer of The Lincoln Project, a group of former Republican strategists bent on ensuring Trump’s defeat. It was amongTimmer said although Trump’s win itself wasn’t surprising, the size of his victory was “a shock to the system.
Timmer said a second Trump administration in general will likely operate similarly to his first, with “a lot of chaos, a lot of misdirection, a lot of stumbles, a lot of overplaying his hand.”
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