The Republican campaign has its eyes well on how to start off on the right foot to achieve the largest number of delegates with a view to the state primaries and in the process ensure the success of the convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Since it is the opposition party, this campaign sounds more interesting, because they have to move all their chips. The thing is, while Ron DeSantis is pulling 38 other people out of his campaign because his pocket is running out; Donald Trump seems to be getting stronger.
According to the AP agency, the strategic moves of the Trump campaign could guarantee more delegates in the National convention to be the Republican candidate in 2024, no one doubts it.
Everything indicates that there is no stopping Trump, although that advantage will only be confirmed in January. But he’s also doing very well fundraising to secure the nomination and challenge Joe Biden.
That advantage arises from changes in the party rules, defined in the states even before the 2020 election, when Biden defeated him.
After the modifications, the percentage of votes to claim delegates would be higher, and since he is first in the polls, he comes out ahead and could take firmer steps to return to the White House.
To do so, he maintains contacts in Nevada, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Florida and even New Jersey, a neighboring state to New York where he consolidated his image as a magnate.
So far, some 2,000 activists and public officials are among the delegates who will vote at the Republican National Convention and if DeSantis still hopes to contest the nomination, he must act now, since the states have until October to present the election strategy.
In Michigan, it has already been approved that delegates be chosen in open primaries, something that, again, would benefit Trump with 16 of the 55 state delegates awarded according to the February 27 primaries; but we have to wait because for the other 39 they will decide behind closed doors if there are elections in party assemblies.
The former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie says that he wants to rescue the party from the hands of Trump, but it does not seem an easy task, since in Idaho they have already eliminated the presidential primaries, because the state elections will be in May, although there will be an assembly on the 2nd of March. And the president of the Republicans in Nevada, Michael McDonald, has already revealed that he is looking for a caucus or assembly for the state primary.
So DeSantis only has to win or win, because in Louisiana and Colorado they propose that the delegates vote in the second round at the national convention, if no applicant achieves a majority, something unlikely.
The author, Sofía Villa, writes this column in her personal capacity and her opinions do not represent Televisa-Univision where she works as Writer/Producer.
