By EFE
07 Mar 2024, 20:14 PM EST
Former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who on Tuesday received the overwhelming support of Republican voters in the primaries, now greases the party machinery, which tomorrow the Republican National Committee will hold in Houston (Texas) to face the next elections. November, which will pit Trump against current President Joe Biden.
In the eight months left until the November elections, the former president needs to make it clear to the United States that he has the full support of the “Grand Old Party” or GOP.
“We want to have unity, and we are going to have unity, and this will happen very quickly,” Trump said after sweeping the crowd that came to his Mar-a-Lago club (Florida) to celebrate his victory on ‘Super Tuesday’.
To achieve this unity, Trump has already been working with several heavyweights in the party.
Earlier this January, the mogul met in Florida with his ally and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and the Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Richard Hudson, to discuss the House elections, according to Politico.
The fracture between Republicans who support the magnate and those who do not began to be more visible after the assault on the Capitol on January 6 organized by Trump followers, who were convinced that fraud had occurred in the 2020 elections. a conspiracy theory that despite all its demands has not been proven.
At that time, figures such as Senator Mitch McConnell, head of the Republican minority in the Upper House of Congress, indicated that the origin of the assault was Trump’s constant lies regarding the theft of the last presidential elections.
However, this week McConnell buried the past and declared his support for Trump’s presidential candidacy.
McConnell, who at the end of February announced that he would leave the leadership of his group in November, was the last of the most important leaders of the Republican Party in Congress who had not endorsed Trump’s candidacy this year.
Beyond the assault on the Capitol, Trump has to demonstrate that he is the right leader for the party, despite facing several sentences that could lead to sentences with million-dollar fines, in addition to four criminal trials, which he is trying to delay until after the elections.
Rebuilding the Republican National Committee
Within the framework of the conspiracy theories that he has spread about electoral fraud, the former president forced the resignation of the president of the Republican National Committee (RNC), Ronna McDaniel, to increase his control over the party.
McDaniel, who framed his retirement within the RNC tradition of carrying out this type of changes during presidential election campaign periods, will leave his position tomorrow, Friday.
Trump already announced earlier this month that his candidate to replace McDaniel was the little-known head of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Whatley.
In addition, the former president has appointed his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, wife of his son Eric, to serve as co-chair of the RNC.
“In the coming days, I look forward to connecting with you, the members of the RNC, and hopefully earning your vote,” Lara wrote in a letter to RNC members.
The RNC will hold its election tomorrow in Houston, where the candidates for chair and co-chair will need to gain majority support from the committee’s 168 members, with Whatley and Lara Trump expected to prevail easily and unopposed.
More funds
Now that Trump is the only Republican candidate, his campaign needs to raise more funds, as according to the latest available campaign finance reports, Biden’s campaign ended January with $56 million in cash and Trump’s with just $30.5 million. of dollars.
The Republican met with Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, last Sunday, according to The New York Times, in search of financing, but it is not known if Musk committed to contributing to the magnate’s campaign.
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