DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Trump’s takeover of Republican National Committee is official as McDaniel steps down
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-08 | by ( Alayna Treene | Daniel Strauss | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

A national committee is typically overhauled after the party has a de facto or official presidential nominee. The changes normally come in the form of a new chairperson or a top official from the presidential campaign moving over to the committee. These resources are critical to Trump’s campaign as it makes plans to build out teams in key battleground states such as Michigan, Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania in the coming weeks and months. “The Republican National Committee will be focused like a laser on getting out the vote and protecting the ballot,” Whatley said in his remarks Friday. Trump’s senior advisers, including LaCivita, insist they have no plans to use the RNC to help pay his legal expenses.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump’s, Michael Whatley, Lara Trump –, Ronna McDaniel, Drew McKissick, “, ” Lara Trump, Eric Trump, Chris LaCivita, James Blair, LaCivita, Blair, aren’t, Trump, “ It’s, it’s, ” David Bossie, it’ll, Joe Biden, ” Whatley, Gilbert Flores, McDaniel, ”, Whatley, Lara Trump, Jonathan Drake, Trump “, LaCivita — Organizations: Houston CNN, Republican Party, Republican National, – North, – North Carolina GOP, RNC, CNN, Trump, Republican National Convention, Republican National Committee, Republican, Reagan, Variety, Michigan GOP, Hilton, Whatley, North, North Carolina GOP, Republicans, North Carolina Republican, GOP, Democratic National Committee, White Locations: – North Carolina, Maryland, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Simi Valley , California, “, Carolina, North Carolina, Greenville , North Carolina

But a proposed resolution to declare Trump the presumptive nominee has been removed from the agenda before the committee is scheduled to meet in Las Vegas this week, party officials said. What was expected to be an uneventful RNC winter meeting in Las Vegas this week briefly gained heightened attention last week after the resolution, introduced by Maryland Committeeman David Bossie, to name Trump the presumptive nominee became public. Political Cartoons View All 253 ImagesWithin hours of the resolution's leak, Trump batted down the proposal, which some members of the committee criticized publicly as premature. There is no formal RNC rule barring the party from declaring a presumptive nominee. In 2016, then-RNC Chairman Reince Priebus declared Trump the presumptive nominee after the Indiana primary, though that was in May and Trump had battled Texas Sen. Ted Cruz for three months since Cruz finished first in the leadoff Iowa caucuses ahead of second-place Trump.

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Nikki Haley, Maryland Committeeman David Bossie, Bossie, ” Trump, Reince Priebus, Texas Sen, Ted Cruz, Cruz, Ronna McDaniel, Haley, Joe Biden, ” McDaniel, ” “, ” Organizations: Republican National Committee, Republican, Trump, Maryland, Congress, U.S . Capitol, Indiana, The Associated Press, Democrats, 23 New Hampshire, Fox News, New, RNC Locations: Las Vegas, Iowa, 23, New Hampshire

Mr. Bossie previewed his plan in an interview with the television host Chris Cuomo on NewsNation after Mr. Trump won the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. Mr. Trump is also facing mounting legal fees and the potential for multiple trials before the election. contest so far, Mr. Trump leads Ms. Haley in delegates, 32 to 17. It is not the first time that people supporting Mr. Trump have been accused of trying to rig the party system in his favor. chairwoman, put her own thumb on the scale for Mr. Trump, after his 11-point win over Ms. Haley in New Hampshire.

Persons: Donald J, Trump’s, Nikki Haley, David Bossie, Trump, ”, Bossie, Chris Cuomo, “ Donald Trump, Mr, Bossie’s, Haley, Ronna McDaniel, Keith Schipper, McDaniel, ” Mr, Schipper, Chris LaCivita, Biden, Ron DeSantis, Olivia Perez, “, Donald Trump, ” Ms, Chris Sununu, Ms, Vivek Ramaswamy, Haley “ Organizations: Republican National Committee, New, Mr, Dispatch, The New York Times, Republican National, Team Trump, Trump, Republican, Washington, Fox News, Gov Locations: committeeman, Maryland, New Hampshire, Las Vegas, South Carolina, United States, Milwaukee, Florida, Until New Hampshire

☆ Republican National Committee considering move that would declare Trump the presumptive nominee
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Daniel Strauss | Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A draft resolution circulating among the Republican National Committee would formally declare Donald Trump the Republican Party’s 2024 presumptive nominee. It would also mean the committee would be supporting Trump and effectively opposing former South Carolina Gov. Those victories have led many prominent figures in the Republican Party to coalesce around Trump and call on Haley to exit the race. Earlier this week, McDaniel told Fox News, “We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is Donald Trump.”Current RNC rules require Trump to secure 1,215 delegates to officially become the party’s nominee. Some RNC members were discussing the resolution during a conference call Wednesday night, according to a Republican with knowledge of that call.

Persons: Donald Trump, Nikki Haley –, David Bossie, “, Trump, McDaniel doesn’t, Keith Schipper, ”, Haley, Ronna McDaniel, ” Haley, Olivia Perez, Cubas, she’s, Nikki Haley, McDaniel Organizations: CNN, Republican National Committee, Republican, RNC, Trump, South Carolina Gov, The Dispatch, Republican National, Team Trump, South Carolina, Washington, Republican Party, Fox News, ” Locations: Maryland, United States, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Trump

Haley’s campaign leaned into those attacks Thursday, releasing T-shirts emblazoned with the words“Barred. “We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is Donald Trump,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Tuesday on Fox News. In the final days before the GOP primary there, Trump paraded a series of South Carolina Republican officials onstage at his rallies, including Gov. Worst of all, no one returned my calls.”Fundraising dried up, and Haley’s campaign directed most of its funds to TV. “Any other person probably would have just quit and caved in there, but she knew that South Carolina needed her,” Ballentine said.

Persons: Nikki Haley, Donald Trump’s, Haley, Trump’s, Trump, ”, Joe Biden —, Donald, ” Haley’s, —, he’s, “, “ Nikki ‘ Birdbrain ’ Haley, ” Trump, MAGA, ” Haley, Nimarata Nikki Randhawa, “ Nikki ”, Michael Haley’s, Barack Obama, Hussein, Donald Donald Trump, Jabin, Biden, — Trump, Donald Trump, Ronna McDaniel, Dave Bossie, I’m, ” Trump’s, Henry McMaster, Gov, Pamela Evette, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott —, ” Scott, Pope, ” Pope, Reid Hoffman, Dmitri Mehlhorn, ” Mehlhorn, Biden’s, ’ Haley, Nathan Ballentine, “ She’s, David Goldman, –, Mark Sanford –, he’d, ” Ballentine, Sarah Palin, McMaster, she’d, hasn’t, Chip Felkel, it’s, Felkel, you’ve, ” Felkel, Schouten, Jeff Zeleny, Ebony Davis, Daniel Strauss, Kristen Holmes Organizations: CNN, Former South Carolina Gov, Republican, Republicans, Trump, New Hampshire —, Palmetto State, New Hampshire, Republican Party, True American Patriots, United Nations, Fox News, Washington Post, GOP, ” Republican, RNC, South Carolina Republican, Gov, Senate, North Carolina Republican, “, LinkedIn, Haley, PAC, SFA, Inc, New, SC, Super, Biden, – South Carolina Gov, South, South Carolina GOP Locations: New Hampshire, North Charleston, South Carolina, New, Nashua , New Hampshire, Maryland, North Carolina, Columbia , South Carolina, Argentina, Carolina

“It’s a slap in the face [to the RNC],” one Republican operative with ties to the committee told CNN. Trump appointed McDaniel as chair after he was elected in 2016, and dozens of establishment Republican committee members were replaced by Trump loyalists. “There would be a new RNC chairman that I imagine Trump would be influential and in choosing just like he was influential with [McDaniel].”The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment. McDaniel had told Trump personally that the debates would start in August, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. The conversation turned into a heated back-and-forth between David Bossie, who is in charge of the RNC debate committee, and Trump campaign adviser Chris LaCivita.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Trump, “, Ronna McDaniel, McDaniel, ”, Republicans ’ underwhelming, “ There’s, Trump’s, Susie Wiles, Harmeet Dhillon, It’s, David Bossie, Chris LaCivita, Wiles, Bossie, Tucker Carlson, that’s, ” McDaniel, CNN’s Dana Bash, he’s, we’ve, she’s Organizations: CNN, Republican National Committee, RNC, Trump, GOP, Republican, Political, Trump loyalists, Republicans, Fox News, Bedminster, “, Labor, Capitol Locations: Miami, California, Nashville, Trump, Georgia

☆ Trump confirms he will not participate in first GOP primary debate
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Kristen Holmes | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —Former President Donald Trump confirmed Sunday he will not participate in the first Republican primary debate this week. A Trump adviser told CNN that the former president could still decide to participate in a later primary debate, despite his post. Wednesday’s primary debate is the first of the 2024 cycle. “I’m still holding out hope that President Trump will come. Fox News president Jay Wallace and the network’s chief executive, Suzanne Scott, had also encouraged Trump to participate in the debate.

Persons: Donald Trump, “, ” Trump, Trump, Fred Ryan, Ryan, Trump’s, Tucker Carlson, Ronna McDaniel, “ I’m, ” McDaniel, McDaniel, David Bossie, noncommittal, Jay Wallace, Suzanne Scott, Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Doug Burgum, Tim Scott, Asa Hutchinson, Chris Christie Organizations: Washington CNN, CNN, Reagan Library, Washington Post, Fox News, Republican, Trump, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, North Dakota Gov, Arkansas Gov, New, New Jersey Gov Locations: Bedminster , New Jersey, Florida, South, New Jersey

☆ Donald Trump Jr. says no one has eaten more McDonald's 'per capita' than his father
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump Jr. says no one eats more McDonald's "per capita, than Donald Trump." Trump Jr. added that it's "100% accurate" that no one knows the McDonald's menu better than his dad. On an episode of his "Triggered" podcast on Thursday, Trump Jr. talked about his father's trip to East Palestine, Ohio. "No one probably eats more of it, per capita, than Donald Trump," he added. Trump Jr., the former president's oldest son, also said it was nice seeing his father "just sitting there at McDonald's."

☆ Ronna McDaniel locked down votes for RNC chair despite the midterm debacle. Here's how she did it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Jonathan Allen | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +9 min

An ally, Richard Porter, an RNC member from Illinois, met with her in Washington to make sure she wanted to run for another two-year term. And the most ardent Trump critics among RNC members say McDaniel, Trump's pick for the post six years ago, is too close to him. Bill Palatucci, an RNC member from New Jersey, said he opposes McDaniel's re-election for that reason. For McDaniel to lose, an opponent would have to win the remaining undecided RNC members and swipe nearly two dozen avowed McDaniel backers. Lori Klein Corbin, an RNC member from Arizona who hasn’t committed to any candidate, said McDaniel hasn’t asked for her vote yet.

☆ GOP to conduct post-election audit after disappointing midterms
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

The party’s disappointing midterm results earlier in the month marked a breaking point of sorts for some committee members, who are now more open to change. Ten years have passed since the RNC last commissioned a post-election audit. Some RNC members were particularly concerned after she offered a rosy assessment of the GOP’s performance during a conference call the day after the midterms. Now, McDaniel is tasked with maintaining unity within her party as a growing number of GOP leaders push back against Trump’s influence. In recent days, some of them, including former Vice President Mike Pence, have condemned Trump’s recent private meeting with white supremacist and antisemite Nick Fuentes.

☆ Ronna McDaniel says she will seek re-election at RNC as rivals eye her job
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Jonathan-Allen-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Jonathan Allen | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said Monday that she will seek re-election to a fourth term, even as potential rivals are being encouraged to mount campaigns for the post. McDaniel made the announcement on a call with RNC members from around the country, a person familiar with her remarks confirmed. Mercedes Schlapp speaks alongside her husband Matt Schlapp at CPAC in Dallas on Aug. 4, 2022. “We have fielded calls,” Matt Schlapp told NBC News Monday. The RNC chair election is slated for the party’s winter meeting in January, where the 168 members of the committee vote on their next leader.

More than 60 prominent conservatives, including former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and activist Ginni Thomas, are calling on House and Senate GOP leadership elections to be delayed until after the Dec. 6 Georgia Senate runoff. The open letter to GOP lawmakers released Monday comes just a day before House Republicans are set to hold their closed-door election to pick their leaders for the new Congress. Senate Republicans plan to hold their own internal elections on Wednesday. There should be no rushed leadership elections,” the conservative group wrote in their letter. “Conservative Members of the House and Senate have called for the leadership elections to be delayed.

☆ Democrats struggle with message on inflation in final midterm push
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Shannon-Pettypiece-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | Shannon Pettypiece | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +10 min

“What is our message about why inflation is going to be worse if Republicans win?” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., told NBC News in an interview. Even as President Joe Biden and some candidates sharpen their focus on inflation, many Democrats are worried it may be coming too late. “Ads for both parties discussed inflation during the early summer, but since then, pro-Democratic ads have avoided mentions of inflation while pro-Republican ads have increased their discussion of inflation,” the researchers wrote. Economic issues are hitting voters particularly hard in states where Democrats’ control of the Senate hangs in the balance, including Arizona, Georgia and Nevada. In campaign appearances and ads, she’s frequently attempted to explain to voters that the Inflation Reduction Act will lower costs for voters.

☆ Trump's most important 2016 donor is sitting out 2020
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-24 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Robert and Rebekah Mercer ranked among President Donald Trump's most influential backers in 2016. A representative for Priorities USA Action, a leading pro-Biden super PAC, said the organization wasn't underestimating Trump's reelection forces, Mercers or no Mercers. (Bossie, like former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and many others, has recently found himself back in Trump's favor.) The Cambridge Analytica data that the Trump campaign paid for was "so stupidly wrong" and a "complete joke," Spicer added. But sources familiar with the Mercers' political spending said they have no evidence that the Mercers are doing so.

☆ Trump campaign throws a COVID-19 lifeline to an indie bookstore in New Jersey, buying Rep. Dan Crenshaw's new book in bulk
▼ + stars: | 2020-07-20 | by ( Dave Levinthal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"It helped us pay the staff, the rent, the insurance and keep the lights on," Books & Greetings owner Kenny Sarfin said. Campaign committees are increasingly making bulk book purchases, which help juice sales numbers and propel politicos' writings onto bestseller lists. The sale follows an earlier $400,000 order of Crenshaw's book by the National Republican Campaign Committee, Politico first reported. The Trump campaign did not reply to several request for comment. While political-committee book purchases are en vogue, it's rare for Republicans — or Democrats — to purchase so many from a mom-and-pop operation.

Search resuls for: "Bossie"

15 mentions found