The Club for Growth, a top conservative campaign group, will host almost all of the top 2024 Republican prospects for a donor retreat in South Florida this weekend, except Donald Trump, according to a Republican familiar with the plans.
Newly minted candidates Nikki Haley, the former U.N. Ambassador, and Vivek Ramaswamy, the former pharmaceutical magnate turned conservative influencer, will headline the meeting in Palm Beach. The top Republicans seriously eyeing bids – including making all the moves of a– are also expected to attend the event, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., and New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.
The only declared candidate not attending is former President Donald Trump. Trump, who helped spark the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection with his 2020 election lies and is widely blamed for the GOP’s poor showing in the 2022 midterms, was not invited to the donor retreat, the Republican source told Yahoo News. The retreat is being held in Palm Beach, Fla., which is where Trump lives at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Club for Growth is a long-running conservative group that has played key roles in funneling donor dollars to hard-right candidates. The group, led by former Indiana congressman David McIntosh, has also had an off-and-on relationship with Trump. In 2022, the group helped Trump select prospects for key Senate races, including Ted Budd, who ended up winning an open North Carolina Senate seat. But the two split over the Ohio Senate primary and the relationship turned sour again whenTrump slammed the organization over the snub on his social media platform earlier this month, calling the group “an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers.
Trump, who has been slowly getting back out on the campaign trail since launching his third White House bid in November, is set to headline the latest
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