There are more than three years left until the next Iowa caucuses and the presidential election in New Hampshire, but which according to some is the first cattle call in the White House race in 2024 will take place next week.
This is when the Republican National Committee (RNC) holds its annual winter meeting, which is personally held on Amelia Island, Fla., January 6-8.
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While the re-election of President Ronna McDaniel and the election of Vice-Presidents and other officials is the highest point, the meeting of the 168 committee members and other prominent GOP officials will also be an opportunity for some of the potential candidates for the next Republican presidential candidate. to make friends. and build ties with the party’s leading activists, fundraisers and rainmakers.
President Trump will be at the top of the list of possible hopefuls in the White House at the confab, which is expected to address the crowd on the second day of the rally.
President Trump raises his fist at the end of a rally to support Republican Senate candidates at Valdosta Regional Airport in Valdosta, Ga., On December 5, 2020. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)
Trump, who continues to fight the 2020 election results and refuses to concede elected president Joe Biden, made it public in early December that another presidential campaign could be on the cards.
“It has been an incredible four years. We are trying to do another four years. Otherwise I will see you in four years,” the president told supporters during a holiday party in the White House for members of the RNC. Two GOP sources who attended the function confirmed the president’s comments to Fox News.
Behind closed doors, Trump has told advisers that he wants to resume in four years ‘time, and that he may announce his bid before or even during Biden’s inauguration on January 20, according to a report by Fox News’ White House correspondent. John Roberts.
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The president is expected to speak at the RNC conference a day after a joint session of Congress is widely expected to ratify Biden’s victory of 306-232 Electoral College, following objections from Republicans of the Trump House and the Senate.
Trump will not be the only potential 2024 candidate during the RNC meeting.
Vice President Mike Pence, who is likely to have presidential ambitions, is also scheduled to attend.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks during a “Save the Majority” march on Thursday, December 10, 2020 in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo / John Bazemore)
And Fox News confirmed earlier this month that a host of other possible hopes in the White House have also been invited. The list includes former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Ted Cruz of Texas, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida, and governments. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
“The members of the RNC represent the grassroots level throughout the country, so it’s an important place for potential ’24 candidates to come and talk about their vision for the country, ‘” said Henry Barbour, a longtime Mississippi National Committee member. , told Fox News.
Despite the first veto dominance of his presidency, Trump remains extremely influential among Republican lawmakers and his popularity among Republican base voters and other Trump supporters remains sky-high.
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Trump has made it clear that he intends to remain heavily involved in Republican Party politics after leaving the White House on January 20. He immediately instituted a leadership PAC after the November election, and much of the fundraising over the past two years for his legal system to challenge the election results is being sent to the new organization. Trump also endorses McDaniel – a key ally – for another term running the RNC. And he targeted Republicans like governments. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Senator John Thune of South Dakota – who are all eligible for re-election in 2022 – for refusing to help him advance the results of the presidential election or acknowledging Biden’s victory .
Trump’s presidential approval among Republicans remained in the stratosphere. It stands at 86% in a national poll by Fox News and at 90% in an NPR / PBS / Marist survey, both done in early December.
The percentage of Republicans who want Trump to be re-elected president in 2024 – 71% in the Fox News poll and 57% in the NPR / PBS / Marist poll – is significantly lower, but still a very fixed majority.
This was a similar story in a national poll by USA Today / Suffolk University conducted last week. Nine out of ten Republicans have given the work that Trump is doing in the White House an inch up – 71% of them said they would vote for Trump again in 2024 if elected.
No other potential hope of the GOP White House comes close.
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans in New Hampshire, the state holding the first primary in the White House race, say they would like to see Trump make a 2024 bid to return to the White House. This emerges from a survey conducted by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) in November.
“Until Republicans come up with an obvious person to replace Trump, he will be seen as the forerunner in 2024,” noted Andrew Smith, director of the UNH Survey Center.
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Barbour stressed that “of course Trump is the forerunner. He is the president of the United States. He was a force different from what we have seen in American people in recent decades.”
But while noting Trump’s’ forerunner ‘status at this extremely early stage in the next White House race, Barbour predicted that’ like the ’16 cycle, it would be a wide-ranging race and that there would be an opportunity for others to emerge. , but they will have to act, just like President Trump. ‘