Trump’s team has worked behind the scenes to ensure delegate selection rules play to their favor — or, in their rivals’ telling, to “rig” the system.
Former President Donald Trump's allies have made clear to state GOP officials that if newly adopted rules have an adverse impact on him, their parties could get a cold shoulder. | Alex Brandon/AP PhotoIn late June, California GOP Chair Jessica Millan Patterson and RNC committee members Harmeet Dhillon and Shawn Steel floated a new set of delegate selection rules that could make their state more competitive in the GOP nomination process.
The wonky-yet-important effort underscores just how politically savvy the Trump operation — once caught flat-footed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’sat the 2016 Republican National Convention — has become. And it exposes how Trump’s aides have been running circles around his rivals, with only one of them — Ron DeSantis and his allies at the Never Back Down super PAC — even putting up a fight.
In Louisiana, they’ve bound delegates to support the state’s nominee for two ballots at the convention, a policy they’re also pushing in Massachusetts and Colorado — the latter of which will vote on the rules this weekend. In the California situation, McCarthy’s close alliance with Patterson was a huge factor in the shift. “This was Kevin McCarthy’s rule — which in turn was dictated by the Trump campaign,” one California official said. “He’s basically Jessica [Millan Patterson]’s boss.”
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