The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors in Las Vegas this week, but top party officials will no longer consider a resolution proposed to declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive Republican nominee.

The Republican National Committee is meeting behind closed doors this week as some allies of Donald Trump had hoped to put the group’s stamp on the former president early in the 2024 GOP presidential nominating campaign.

But a proposed resolution to declare Trump the presumptive nominee has been removed from the agenda before the committee is scheduled to meet in Las Vegas this week, party officials said.

The reversal comes as the first two early-state contests have winnowed the Republican campaign down to two major candidates, with Trump as the heavy favorite and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley vowing to continue her uphill challenge.

What was expected to be an uneventful RNC winter meeting in Las Vegas this week briefly gained heightened attention last week after the resolution, introduced by Maryland Committeeman David Bossie, to name Trump the presumptive nominee became public.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    42·
    10 months ago

    Both states counted votes before the latest judgement against Trump ordering him to pay more than $80 million to a woman for lying about raping her. He will have another judgement coming related to his fraud in New York, which may break up his businesses there and levy further fines.

    He might avoid paying some of them by declaring bankruptcy, but now he needs to campaign as the bankrupt candidate. Financially, morally, philosophically, and in just about every other way you could imagine.

    This primary isn’t over.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      10 months ago

      He will have another judgement coming related to his fraud in New York, which may break up his businesses there and levy further fines.

      The fun part about this judgement is it could cost him everything the Trump Org owns regardless of whether or not it’s in NY as the company has it’s HQ there.
      And as a tax cheat his business owns everything he has, including Mar-a-Lago.
      If they dissolve and liquidate his company he’ll be homeless.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        He won’t be homeless as long as he has a campaign to fund his travel and meals. Even if he loses this election, he will contest fhe outcome while simultaneously filing for Trump 2028 (which he wouldn’t be eligible for if he wins 2024…)

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      The New York State trial for fraud is a civil trial. Civil judgments cannot be discharged through bankruptcy. Trump will have to pay all of it.