The media may frame this as unusual ….
It isn’t….
Presidential nominee’s ALWAYS shape their party apparatus there way….
But?
With Donald Trump?
The Big Guy IS looking for HUNDREDS of Millions of Dollars….
Whose?
Former President Donald Trump’s impending takeover of the Republican National Committee could give him access to a big new pile of cash at a time when he is beset by legal bills, making some committee members nervous.
Limiting Trump’s access to the RNC’s coffers is a touchy subject, and an effort to pressure his team on spending restrictions failed. But it serves as another example of the pockets of Trump resistance that persist within the GOP.
Trump pushed RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel to resign from the job after seven years, and wants his daughter-in-law Lara Trump and another loyalist, North Carolina Republican Party Chair Michael Whatley, to serve as co-chairs. Top Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita would be chief operating officer.
RNC members are meeting in Houston on Friday to consider the leadership change.
It’s not uncommon for the RNC to be tightly integrated with the campaign of the Republican presidential nominee, a title Trump clinched after Nikki Haley dropped out of the race Wednesday. But there are some unusual aspects of Trump’s campaign that continue to worry some Republicans….
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Henry Barbour, the Republican national committeeman from Mississippi, sponsored the resolution prohibiting the RNC from paying a candidate’s legal bills. He said it would’ve helped reassure donors.
“I suspect if people thought a contribution to the RNC was going to legal bills that have nothing to do with the 2024 cycle they might be less likely to contribute to the RNC,” Barbour said.
RNC discussion of legal bills ‘still very much alive’
Barbour’s resolution needed support from 10 states, each with two co-sponsors, to force a vote Friday but only obtained eight. It was non-binding. A formal rule change would need to be approved at the Republican National Convention in July.
While the resolution failed, Barbour said “the discussion is still very much alive.”
“The RNC has one job and that’s to win elections,” Barbour said, adding that paying a candidate’s legal bills. “Has nothing to do with winning elections.”…
Update on the RNC under ‘the Donald’…..
(Careful what U wish for?)
Bloodbath at the RNC
“Donald Trump’s newly installed leadership team at the Republican National Committee on Monday began the process of pushing out dozens of officials,” Politico reports.
“All told, the expectation is that more than 60 RNC staffers who work across the political, communications and data departments will be let go. Those being asked to resign include five members of the senior staff, though the names were not made public. Additionally, some vendor contracts are expected to be cut.”
“The overhaul is aimed at cutting, what one of the people described as, ‘bureaucracy’ at the RNC. But the move also underscores the swiftness with which Trump’s operation is moving to take over the Republican Party’s operations after the former president all but clinched the party’s presidential nomination last week.”