Republican officials said they avoided including the former president in part because the party aims to stay neutral in the 2024 primaries.
The report, which is slated to be discussed at a Republican National Committee meeting in Oklahoma City this week, has sparked debate within the GOP, according to five people who described its contents and the discussions about the report to The Washington Post. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to reveal details of an internal document. The Post has not reviewed a full draft of the report, which is being written by RNC committee members and Republican Party employees.
The report is designed to look both at the RNC and the broader GOP ecosystem, Republican Party officials said. Henry Barbour, a member of the committee who helped craft the report, wrote a part of the introduction that obliquely criticizes candidates who focus on the past, a person who has seen the document said.
“Mr. Trump turned what should have been a referendum on Mr. Biden’s terrible record into a choice between himself and the current president. As in 2020, lots of voters chose Mr. Biden,” strategist Karl Rove wrote in the Wall Street Journal. “It wasn’t my fault that the Republicans didn’t live up to expectations in the MidTerms … It was the ’abortion issue, ’ poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters. Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S.
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