Former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a Commit to Caucus rally at the Big League Dreams sports park Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024.
Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 | 10:45 a.m.
The Republican Party isn’t prepared for the 2024 presidential election, according to Politico.
Hundreds of Republicans gathered Monday in Las Vegas ahead of the Republican National Committee's winter meetings to "vent their grievances about the party," Politico reported this morning.
The gathering highlighted "more than a year’s worth of frustration from some Republicans in and surrounding the committee — about its finances, about its struggles to match Democrats’ organizing efforts, about its four-term leader," Politico reported.
“We are at war,” one man shouted from a microphone at the event, hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action, lifting his arm in the air. “Where are the tools? Where are all the little things that the left is doing but we don’t?”
The sub-head of the story is telling: “GOP county chairs and local activists warned the party isn’t doing enough to compete in November.”
Former President Donald Trump is expected to face President Joe Biden in a rematch of the 2020 presidential election in November. Biden won swing states like Michigan, Arizona and Nevada — by about 30,000 votes — to claim the presidency.
“The fact of the matter is the same executive committee, the same leadership structure, the same strategic plans, the same ‘victory programs’ are all in place with the same people, and yet we have lost 22 out of 25 statewide races,” said Terry Dittrich, the chair of the Waukesha County, Wisconsin GOP at the meeting, according to Politico reporting.
The party’s winter meetings in Las Vegas this week will be behind closed doors, according to U.S. News.
The agenda was supposed to include considering a resolution naming Donald Trump the party’s “presumptive” presidential nominee for the 2024 election. However, that idea was scratched and the resolution withdrew after public pushback.
Trump and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are vying for the nomination. Trump won the caucuses in Iowa and New Hampshire heading into nominating contests next week in Nevada.
He’ll also win the delegates here because the state GOP is picking delegates from its privately run “First in the West” caucuses, where Trump is running against political newcomer and businessman Ryan Binkley.
Haley is part of the primary election run by the Nevada Secretary of State and election boards in the state’s 17 counties. Nevada GOP rules dictate candidates can’t participate in both contests, meaning Trump will win here uncontested — just how the GOP intended, critics say.
