A draft resolution submitted to the Republican National Committee (RNC), if approved, would recognize former President Trump as the party's presumptive nominee for 2024.
dispatch first reported Maryland RNC Commissioner David Bossie said: I submitted a resolution. Its purpose is to declare Trump the “presumptive 2024 U.S. presidential candidate” and call the RNC “a full-fledged general election that welcomes supporters of all candidates as valued members of Team Trump in 2024.” mode.
Mr. Trump has won just 32 of the 1,215 delegates needed to win the nomination early in the presidential nominating cycle, but Mr. Trump and his allies have already won this month's Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire delegates. He is touting his winning streak in the primaries. And he pointed out that he is the frontrunner in upcoming polls in the state.
“Such resolutions have been introduced by members of the RNC. Mr. Chairman. [Ronna] Mr. McDaniel has not offered a solution,” RNC spokesman Keith Schipper said in a statement to The Hill.
“This will be taken up by the resolutions committee, which will decide whether to send this resolution to a vote by the 168 RNC members at next week's annual meeting,” Schipper said.
CNN and NBC News The draft resolution was also confirmed.
The RNC holds: winter meeting Next week in Las Vegas.
Mr. Bossie, who is said to have submitted the draft, is a close ally of Mr. Trump.
The draft bill specifically points to Trump's victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, stating that “all evidence points to a mathematical path to the 2024 Republican nomination by a candidate other than our presumptive nominee, President Trump.” “I deny the possibility.”
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McDaniel also said he doesn't see a path forward for former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who is now in a one-on-one situation with the former president, after other potential candidates withdrew after Trump's victory in New Hampshire. Stated.
“We need to unite around our eventual nominee, Donald Trump, and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden,” McDaniel said.
Meanwhile, Haley and her campaign have pushed back on questions about whether her performance in New Hampshire was enough to advance her, emphasizing that the race is far from over.
“There are no coronations in America. There are elections. Republican voters across the country, not insiders in Washington, decide who is our party's nominee,” her campaign said. stated in Thursday's response. Go to The Dispatch report.
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