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Potential 2024 Republican presidential contenders headline record fundraiser for New Hampshire GOP
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4 outstanding Senate Republicans thought of potential contenders for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination are headlining what’s being billed as a possible report fundraiser for the New Hampshire GOP.
New Hampshire Republican State Committee chair Steve Stepanek advised Fox Information that Wednesday night’s finance occasion within the nation’s capital “seems to be prefer it could possibly be the most important fundraiser that the NHGOP has ever achieved.”
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New Hampshire for a century has held the primary major within the race for the White Home, and amongst these on the host committee for the fundraiser are Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, the runner-up to former President Donald Trump within the 2016 GOP nomination race, in addition to Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Tim Scott of South Carolina, and Rick Scott of Florida, who’s the chair of the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks on the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in Orlando, Fla.
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All 4 senators are anticipated to talk on the gathering, which is being held on the Capitol Hill residence of Ron Kaufman, a Republican Nationwide Committee member from Massachusetts and chair of the RNC’s funds committee. All 4 senators have been making stops over the previous yr in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada, the primary 4 states to carry contests within the GOP’s presidential nominating calendar, with Cotton and Scott making a number of visits to New Hampshire.
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Additionally on the fundraiser’s host committee however not anticipated to attend the occasion are Home Minority Chief Rep. Kevin McCarthy, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, and co-chair Tommy Hicks.
Whereas the Democratic Nationwide Committee is severely contemplating revamping its presidential nominating calendar, participation within the fundraiser by the senators and RNC management is one other signal that the GOP apparently has little curiosity upending its major and caucus schedule.
New Hampshire has held the primary major within the race for the White Home for 100 years. An indication subsequent to the Statehouse in Harmony, NH highlight’s the state’s treasured major standing.
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“The truth that we now have the lineup that we now have tells me is that there’s important assist for the first-in-the-nation major from the Republican Celebration,” Stepanek emphasised.
On the RNC’s winter assembly in February, a report that made no modifications to the standard prime of the occasion’s presidential nominating calendar was unanimously authorized by a panel chaired by Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufmann. Stepanek, South Carolina GOP chair Drew McKissick and Nevada GOP chair Michael McDonald additionally sat on the committee.