NY.— Polls aside, Donald Trump’s fundraising or name recognition as a metric of his early dominance of the Republican presidential race.
He has what might be the most important advantage in the race: winning the delegates needed to clinch the Republican nomination.
Although the delegate count will begin to take shape until voting begins next January.
Many state Republican parties made changes to their rules ahead of the 2020 election, adding more winner-take-all competition and requiring candidates to have higher percentages of the vote to win any delegates.
Those changes favor the front-runner, a position Trump has maintained despite his growing legal peril, his party’s lackluster performance in the 2022 election and the turbulent years of his presidency.
Now that Trump is running for the White House again, he has been focused on the upcoming battle for delegates, according to people with knowledge of his effort who requested anonymity to discuss that strategy.
He has had regular talks with state party chairmen, where he has run many contests and has hosted delegations from Republican parties from Nevada, Louisiana and Pennsylvania and in his home states of Florida and New Jersey.
This move is a sign of the way the Trump team is focused on the crucial, less glamorous aspects of winning the Republican nomination.
That’s a notable change from his first run for the White House in 2016, when his team was relatively new to the operation and unaware of the minutiae of the competition for delegates and sometimes found themselves outmatched by more-skilled rivals, particularly Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.
2023-07-25 04:23:25
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