Yup….
The Donald ain’t going to the annual Republican Jewish Coalition conference….
Lot’s of other 2024 Republican Presidential nominatiuoibn wannabee’s WILL make appearances…
The ex-President probably feels he don’t have do anything he doesn’t want to hold the base….
But quietly?
The other sweepstake’s players ARE lining up support and I.O.U.’s for a run for President …..
As the legal troubles for Donald Trump pile up?
(And the crying about himself in 2020…Not the party)
Republicans seem to be working to hedge their bets on another Trump run for the White House….
Former President Donald Trump is not on the guest list. He was invited to Las Vegas but declined, RJC officials confirmed Monday. But nearly every other prominent Republican eyeing a White House bid is coming. That includes former Vice President Mike Pence and two veterans of Trump’s Cabinet: former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.
Also appearing is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, considered a top Trump rival should both mount presidential campaigns. DeSantis is expected to cruise to a second term in next Tuesday’s midterm elections. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the latest entrant into the GOP’s 2024 sweepstakes, is headlining the RJC’s megadonor fundraising dinner — a slot coveted by ambitious Republicans — the Thursday before the conference begins.
“A lot of Republicans have been diligently laying the groundwork for a campaign, and now, they’re ready to start testing the waters in earnest. This race will start earlier than usual because everybody wants to get ahead of Trump,” said Alex Conant, a Republican operative in Washington and partner at Firehouse Strategies….
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The group’s conference will be the first of its kind after the Nov. 8 vote to feature so many Republicans interested in running for president in 2024 in one place. Many have spent the past two years campaigning for GOP candidates as part of a broader effort to expand their political networks, collect allies, and raise cash for their political groups to seed a 2024 bid.
These Republicans have made a special point of supporting GOP candidates running for state, local, and federal office in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina (and traveling to) the states that are first, second, and third on the party’s presidential nominating calendar. Some of them, such as Pence, Haley, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), have been doing all of this since the day Trump was inaugurated in 2017….
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“A lot of Republicans have been diligently laying the groundwork for a campaign, and now, they’re ready to start testing the waters in earnest. This race will start earlier than usual because everybody wants to get ahead of Trump,”
Republican donors are also gonna have make choices soon for the 2024 GOP Presidential nominee pick…
And they seem to be leaniong more towards Ron DeSantis right now….
Hmmmmm?
“I know a lot of folks that are on record for Trump but really want something new,” Dan Eberhart, a prominent Republican donor who is one of the few vocal Trump critics within that landscape, said.
The threat of retribution could be an important factor as well, because several donors who spoke to Semafor see strong indications that DeSantis is the preferred candidate of big money. Veteran party backers are hoping he can keep the MAGA base excited with calculated Trump-like stunts, like sending migrants to Martha’s Vineyard, but without the same erratic behavior that’s turned off moderate voters and undermined more electable candidates….
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“The established donor class is behind DeSantis more than Trump,” one GOP donor told Semafor, adding that the “temperature in Palm Beach” and other wealthy areas across the country is that “people are done with Trump.”
Another GOP donor agreed, telling Semafor that donors were tired of seeing the “cannibalization of our party” into a venue for Trump’s personal obsessions, rather than party building and policy wins.
Steven Law, CEO of Senate Leadership Fund, a Mitch McConell-allied super PAC that’s a hub for top donors, less-than-subtly noted on Twitter Sunday that DeSantis’ midterm rally speeches were “refreshing” because “so little of it is self-referential” and any personal references were about “building up the candidate he is there to support.”…
Note…
‘Time waits for NO one…Not even Donald Trump…’