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Stu: Only two handballs in the build-up to Brighton goal, no problem.

Nancy opened the intervention by asking, “Stu, what do you think?” the consultant once recalled to me.

“Stu came up with this idea for Reagan to promise to put a woman on the Supreme Court. People think it’s normal now. But back then it was a huge idea. It was just Stu’s political instinct that you could change the whole dialogue. Overnight, the demonstrations went away.”

Stu Spencer says President Trump killed the GOP of old and Reagan would have been disgusted with him.

“Bill Roberts and Stu Spencer were certainly the fathers of modern political consulting in California and made it a full-time profession and a respected profession at the same time,” said Sal Russo, a Sacramento-based GOP consultant who followed them into the field.