Former President Donald Trump needs to win at all the things he does, and in terms of the Republican presidential nomination, he plans to win it.
For these causes, Trump on Thursday referred to as a halt to efforts to have the Republican Nationwide Committee declare him the social gathering’s presumptive nominee.
“While I greatly appreciate the Republican National Committee (RNC) wanting to make me their PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE, and while they have far more votes than necessary to do it, I feel, for the sake of PARTY UNITY, that they should NOT go forward with this plan, but that I should do it the ‘Old Fashioned’ way, and finish the process off AT THE BALLOT BOX,” he posted on Truth Social.
“Thank you to the RNC for the Respect and Devotion you have shown me! TRUMP2024,” the previous president added.
Trump has dominated the 2 GOP main contests up to now, successful each the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire main with greater than 50 p.c of the vote.
All different contenders for the Republican nomination have dropped out apart from former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who trails Trump within the polls.
Whereas Trump has lashed out at Haley and threatened her donors, many Republicans have urged her to drop out of the race.
Trump ally David Bossie shared the thought of declaring the competition over in a decision that might have been mentioned on the RNC winter assembly in Las Vegas subsequent week, in keeping with Reuters.
When the previous president shot down the plan Thursday, nonetheless, Bossie withdrew it.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel had stated after Trump’s New Hampshire win on Tuesday that the GOP wants unity to win, in keeping with NBC News.
“I’m looking at the map and the path going forward, and I don’t see it for Nikki Haley,” McDaniel stated.
“I do think there’s a message that’s coming out from the voters, which is very clear: We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump,” she stated.
Phrase of the decision irked some RNC members.
Oscar Brock, a committee member from Tennessee, stated the decision “certainly violates the intent” of RNC guidelines for the primaries.
“The rules specifically say you’re not the guy until you’ve gotten 50 percent plus one of the delegates required for the convention,” he stated, in keeping with NBC Information.
“I would think that we would be more open to letting more people have a say in this process before declaring it over,” Brock stated.
Haley responded sharply to the information that the decision had been proposed.
“Who cares what the RNC says? We’ll let millions of Republican voters across the country decide who should be our party’s nominee, not a bunch of Washington insiders,” her marketing campaign stated in a press release.
Haley marketing campaign on this: “Who cares what the RNC says?” https://t.co/ci1uHAROD0 pic.twitter.com/bdEuBqxGEh
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) January 25, 2024
Trump and Haley meet once more within the Feb. 24 South Carolina main. After that comes Tremendous Tuesday on March 5, when Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and American Samoa vote, in keeping with U.S. News and World Report.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
