The Republican Party’s compass now points south, towards Florida, the state where Donald Trump has settled. After the Conservatives’ annual rally in Orlando in February, three more conferences were scheduled to be held in Palm Beach over the weekend, Saturday April 10 and Sunday April 11, including two at the former president’s properties. This capacity of attraction underlines a persistent weight which does not go without friction.
Determined to remain at the helm of the Grand Old Party, led by one of its obligees, Ronna McDaniel, Donald Trump has thus initiated a showdown with the financial arm of the Republican Party so that it stops using its image and its reputation. name to raise funds. The annual gathering of Republican donors, in an upscale hotel in the seaside city, was to be challenged by the conference organized in Mar-a-Lago by relatives of the former president, including his former chief of staff (Secretary General) at the White House, Mark Meadows, or his former political adviser Stephen Miller.
Influence the midterm elections
Encouraged by the millions of dollars collected during the contestation of the results of the presidential election, the former businessman is keen to keep some form of control over his party’s finances. He also intends to use his influence on the Republican base by selecting his own candidates for the coming season of the primaries, which will precede the mid-term elections, in November 2022. He has just illustrated this by providing his support , for an upcoming senatorial election in Alabama, to a member of the House of Representatives leading in this contestation of the results, Mo Brooks.
The stakes are high. While the Democratic Party and the Republican Party each have fifty votes in the Senate, five Conservative senators have already indicated that they do not intend to run again, including three who have displayed their distance from the former President. Donald Trump hopes their replacement by affidavits, which would make the quest for bipartisan majorities in the upper assembly even more delicate.
Because, more than two months after his departure from the White House, the former president continues to stand on a radical line. His frequent press releases, which reproduce almost identically the offensive style he had developed on the Twitter account from which he was permanently deprived in January, attest to this. Donald Trump has never admitted defeat and continues to maintain the conspiracy theory that massive fraud deprived him of a second term.
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