When longtime Republican strategist Karen R. Giorno agreed to be a director for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Florida last year, she didn’t think it would end with Palm Beach being home to a winter White House.

“I thought it was going to be a two-month gig,” she recalled Thursday morning at The Chesterfield.

Giorno spoke to the Palm Beach Republican Club about “The Palm Beach Presidency: How the Florida Playbook turned America Red.” Throughout the talk, most of which was insider political baseball, she offered anecdotal snippets of how her experience of working with the now president-elect’s campaign made her somewhat disillusioned with the Republican National Committee.

What drew Giorno — who has worked for other Republicans including Gov. Rick Scott, President George H.W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush — to Trump was his unique appeal to Americans who felt they weren’t being represented by their politicians.

“He’s not an ideologue; he’s about getting stuff done,” said Giorno, who eventually rose to the position of senior political advisor to Trump.

“The playbook doesn’t apply to Donald Trump,” she said. “The playbook went out the window and he rewrote the playbook.”