Privately, Republican officials long knew the risk Trump would skip their first 2024 primary debate, but they couldn’t muster a plan to stop him.
Long before Donald Trump publicly threatened to skip out on the first 2024, Republican National Committee officials knew he was going to be a problem.
After one of the members asked what the RNC should do if Trump wanted to pick and choose which debates to attend, the consensus in the room boiled down to “America is full of freedoms, and this is one of those,” the member said. “I think the thing to understand about the Republican Party is that it’s very much a bottom-up organization,” the second RNC member said, also requesting anonymity.
Stuck trying to manage that potentially untenable balance is RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, very much a Trump-era figure who is nevertheless distrusted by the corners of the MAGA base.
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