In an early start, Donald Trump’s team invited state party officials to Mar-a-Lago, arranged private meet-and-greets, endorsed some state officials and met with senior GOP officials in Washington to discuss how the delegate selection process will unfold.
The behind-the-scenes effort comes at a time when most Trump rivals have not even launched campaigns and focuses on the most esoteric part of the Republican nominating process — the state rules and party leaders that actually select presidential nominating delegates.
Trump, the onetime outsider who patched together his successful 2016 campaign on the fly, has now built a team more adept at playing the inside game. Strategists for multiple rival political operations, who have not yet formally declared their candidacies, say they are concerned that Trump’s early blocking and tackling could pay major dividends next year and leave them racing to catch up.
“We are running a campaign for the Republican nomination that wasn’t run in 2016,” a Trump adviser said. “There are a lot more than rallies involved in a real campaign.”For his 2020 reelection campaign, Trump advisers Justin Clark and Bill Stepien worked for more than a year to change party rules to ensure he would not face a challenger at the nominating convention.
Senior Trump advisers in Washington last week met with RNC officials and others about the effort, people familiar with the matter said, and they have visited some individual states. Trump also sent a delegation to Michigan last week to support the state party chair campaign of Matthew DePerno, who lost.
Even in states where the delegate allocation process is set, the Trump team believes these early interactions will help ensure that the delegates, including party officers, at the convention are supportive. Though primaries and caucuses often bind delegate nomination votes on the first ballot, delegates are free to vote their will on other matters before the convention, including the rules for the proceedings and who gets credentials to vote. They also have the power to disrupt proceedings.
The state party is deeply divided among Trump loyalists, libertarians and those allied with more establishment Republican figures like Republican Gov. Brad Little, who was unsuccessfully challenged from the far right in 2022 by the Trump-endorsed former Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin. State party chairwoman Dorothy Moon, who echoed Trump’s bogus claims about election fraud after the 2020 presidential contest and is viewed as sympathetic to his candidacy, did not return calls for comment.
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