As of: March 8, 2024, 1:02 p.m
By: Nail Akkoyun
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Donald Trump's influence on Republicans is growing.
His daughter-in-law and a loyal lawyer are supposed to lead the party - and finance Trump's trials.
Houston – The Republicans will most likely become a lot more Trump-friendly on Friday morning US time.
Because after party leader Ronna McDaniel resigns from office as planned, the officials of the “Grand Old Party” will appoint a leadership team hand-picked by Donald Trump – including his daughter-in-law Lara Trump.
Together with Michael Whatley, a lawyer from North Carolina who has represented Trump's false claims about voter fraud in the last US election to this day, the 41-year-old wife of her son Eric is said to be in the chair.
The Associated Press,
among others, reports on this
.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flanked by his son Eric and daughter-in-law Lara at a campaign rally in Nashua, New Hampshire.
The photo was taken on January 23, 2024. © Timothy A. Clary/AFP
Trump's legal costs: Will the Republican party's coffers be plundered?
While the team repeatedly asserted that the RNC (National Organizing Committee of the Republican Party, editor's note) would not plunder the party's coffers for Trump's horrendous legal costs, daughter-in-law Lara took a completely different tone.
You have to "make sure that every single penny of every dollar donated goes to the things that people care about," she told the right-wing extremist broadcaster
Real America's Voice
.
Lara Trump worked at Fox News until December 2022;
It is likely that she will make media appearances for her father-in-law's election campaign.
The Associated Press
also sees fundraising
as one of its tasks.
Given that the Republican leadership will be entirely in the hands of Trump's team starting March 8, there is unlikely to be any significant resistance.
Trump's internal party competitor Nikki Haley recently warned of such a scenario, the party treasury as Trump's piggy bank.
Trump is currently facing four criminal charges and 91 total counts, as well as a $355 million civil fraud verdict, which he has appealed.
His Save America campaign committee has
spent about $76 million on legal fees over the past two years, according to the
Associated Press .
The
Washington Post
reported that the RNC paid some of Trump's bills that began while he was in office.
However, current chairwoman Ronna McDaniel stated that the payments would be stopped as soon as Donald Trump was the Republican presidential candidate again.
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Lara Trump's call: Anyone who doesn't want Donald Trump should leave the Republican Party
Lara Trump already made it clear on
Real America's Voice
that the Republicans only want to position themselves behind one man in the future when she suggested that all critics leave the party: “Anyone who doesn't agree with it, Donald Trump as the 47th president, an America-loving patriot across the board, supported by the RNC, feel free to go.”
It's a strategy that could seriously backfire.
Lara Trump believes there is “no one” more loyal to her father-in-law “and the Make America Great Again movement.”
But that's exactly where the problem lies: not all Republican voters are staunch Trump fans and MAGA believers.
US election 2024: Many moderate Republicans prefer Haley to Trump
According to Associated Press
polls,
two out of ten voters in Iowa, a third in New Hampshire and a quarter in South Carolina would not vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 US election.
According to other US surveys, more moderate Republicans could also imagine voting for Nikki Haley instead of Trump in a direct duel against incumbent Joe Biden.
However, that was before Haley decided to drop out of the presidential race after Super Tuesday.
"The RNC should focus on winning over swing voters, independents and disaffected voters," said British political scientist Todd Landman in an interview with
Newsweek
.
Lara Trump's strategy of only wanting to keep the hard core in the party is highly questionable, as Donald Trump "now needs to expand his appeal and not reduce it."
On the other hand, this tactic just screams of the former president: either completely for me or against me.
(nak)