The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors this week as some allies of Donald Trump had hoped to put the group’s stamp on the former president early in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating campaign.
But a proposed resolution to declare Trump the presumptive nominee has been removed from the agenda before the committee is scheduled to meet in Las Vegas this week, party officials said.
The reversal comes as the first two early-state contests have winnowed the Republican campaign down to two major candidates, with Trump as the heavy favorite and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley vowing to continue her uphill challenge.
What was expected to be an uneventful RNC winter meeting in Las Vegas this week briefly gained heightened attention last week after the resolution, introduced by Maryland Committeeman David Bossie, to name Trump the presumptive nominee became public.
They probably noticed that Trump only got 51% of the vote in Iowa and 54% in New Hampshire, Haley got 19% in Iowa and jumped to 43% in New Hampshire. And now Haley is his only opponent.
She’s finally starting to actually shit talk him a little and it’s boosting her popularity with the part of the party that doesn’t like Trump but will never vote Democrat.
And Trump doesn’t look like as much as a sure thing as he did before either. He’s still way far ahead, but the fact that he’s not pulling 90%+ of his parties votes probably made them realize it’s too early to call the race with 48 States left to go.
I really hope she gets the nomination, because there’s a 100% chance he runs as independen/write-in and splits the Republican vote.
Both states counted votes before the latest judgement against Trump ordering him to pay more than $80 million to a woman for lying about raping her. He will have another judgement coming related to his fraud in New York, which may break up his businesses there and levy further fines.
He might avoid paying some of them by declaring bankruptcy, but now he needs to campaign as the bankrupt candidate. Financially, morally, philosophically, and in just about every other way you could imagine.
This primary isn’t over.
The fun part about this judgement is it could cost him everything the Trump Org owns regardless of whether or not it’s in NY as the company has it’s HQ there.
And as a tax cheat his business owns everything he has, including Mar-a-Lago.
If they dissolve and liquidate his company he’ll be homeless.
He won’t be homeless as long as he has a campaign to fund his travel and meals. Even if he loses this election, he will contest fhe outcome while simultaneously filing for Trump 2028 (which he wouldn’t be eligible for if he wins 2024…)
Ivanka 2028 has entered the chat.
I hate that I can absolutely see this happening.
The New York State trial for fraud is a civil trial. Civil judgments cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. Trump will have to pay all of it.
Maga Republicans be like: WWFascendingrapistmeme.jpg
More likely he agrees to support her (or at least not run) in exchange for a full pardon.
Which of course only works for the federal cases, and assumes he’s willing to admit guilt for them as is required to take a pardon. Then he’ll still have a ton of State cases to deal with.
I don’t want her to win because Biden can’t beat her. Biden only won because tons of Republicans voted for him like my boss who said he will gladly vote for Nikki even though she no fucking better.