Trump campaign says Butch & Lori Otter are its honorary Idaho campaign chairs

The Donald Trump for president campaign has named its Idaho state director, Layne Bangerter, and announced that Gov. Butch Otter and First Lady Lori Otter will serve as honorary chairs for the Idaho campaign.

“I’m really pleased that Donald Trump has had the wisdom to hire Layne to keep us all laser-focused on the task at hand: To defeat Hillary Clinton this November,” Otter said in a news release from the campaign. “Lori and I know and respect Governor and Mrs. Pence and you cannot find a better fit than the Trump-Pence Ticket. I stand ready to serve when and wherever needed in this campaign. Our in-state organization is united in purpose to elect Donald Trump and we all represent the vast spectrum of political ideals which draw us to support his highly successful businessman.”

Bangerter, a longtime staffer for Sen. Mike Crapo and a Trump delegate to the Republican national convention this year, said, “We are fully organized and growing in Idaho each day with Trump representatives in all of Idaho’s 44 counties. … Mr. Trump will win big here, very big on Nov. 8, but we will have no days off until then. We have over 8,000 volunteers ready to work the phones in Idaho and throughout America. We will have fair booths and signs going up everywhere and we will also send volunteers from Idaho to anywhere needed to help Mr. Trump in key battleground states.”

The Trump Idaho campaign has set up its headquarters in the Idaho Republican Party state office.