The NY Times does apiece that looks at what is going on behind the scene’s as Trump continue ‘s to defy what would be politically ‘normal’ in American Political poilItical politics….
The ex-President that had refused to admit he lost a second trrey at something NOBODY including himself would win….
Now has bis people working hard to lock in support on differnt levels to secure the Republican nomination…
It would appaere having NOT been able to steal a national election….
He is setting thngs in motion to lock down his parties Presidential nomination NO MATTER what…..
Even if the delegates from the GOP primaries appaer to be there for someone else?
Even if he ends up being a convicted felon by the time the convention rolls around next July?
As Mr. Trump dodges debates and is regularly seen on his golf courses in branded white polo shirts and red MAGA hats, it can seem that he is bypassing the 2024 primary fight entirely. He has done relatively few public campaign events until recent weeks. But Mr. Trump and his political team have spent months working behind the scenes to build alliances and contingency plans with key party officials, seeking to twist the primary and delegate rules in their favor.
It amounts to a fail-safe in case Mr. DeSantis — or anyone else — scores a surprise victory in an early state. And it comes as Mr. Trump faces an extraordinary set of legal challenges, including four criminal indictments, that inject an unusual degree of uncertainty into a race Mr. Trump leads widely in national polling.
“They’ve rigged it anywhere they thought they could pull it off,” said Ken Cuccinelli, a former Trump administration official who founded Never Back Down, the pro-DeSantis super PAC that was essentially ousted from the Nevada caucus.
The maneuvering is the type of old-school party politics that Mr. Trump, who cut his teeth in the machine politics of 1970s and 1980s New York, relishes and knows best: personal calls and chits, glad-handing, relationships and reprisals. Advisers say that in contrast to some tasks, getting him to make those calls is a breeze. Plus, the seemingly arcane issue of delegate accumulation — tallying up formal support in the states to secure the nomination at the party convention next summer — is deeply personal to Mr. Trump after he was outflanked in exactly this fight in 2016….
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In presidential primaries or caucuses, voters’ casting of ballots is only the first step. Those elections determine the individuals — called delegates — who go to the national party convention to formally choose their party’s nominee. The rules each state uses to allocate delegates and bind them to particular candidates can shift from year to year, and the people in charge of those rules are otherwise obscure state party officials.
Wooing those insiders can be crucial…
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Mr. Cuccinelli accused Mr. Trump of hypocrisy. “No one has tried to rig the rules like Donald Trump has been doing here at least in a very long time,” he said. “And no one has ever done it who, in other circumstances, complains about the rules being rigged.”
Note…
This effort will keep Trump’s mind off his legal troubles…
But will also help him form a party that he feels he owns like Russian President Putin as Trump makes NO bones that a win in the November 2024 election would make him President for LIFE of the Donald Trump’s America….
Ron DeSantis says Trump is a “ different guy” than he was in 2016.
Really?
I don’t see any difference other than he might be even more crazy than he was back then.
That’s the best” line” you’ve got Ron?
Pretty weak.
Yea he’s definitely different
91 criminal charges
For lying and cheating
Working to do it again?