A California Republican showdown featuring Donald Trump is coming – two days after the former president skipped his party’s second 2024 primary debate in Simi Valley.
Trump is among the 2024 GOP contenders who will be in Anaheim on Friday for the California GOP’s fall convention. The former president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott are set to speak to the party faithful Friday. Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is scheduled to follow them Saturday.
California, with its 54 electoral votes, is reliably Democratic in general elections. But the state has a significant role to play in the Republican primary: It’s a delegate-rich contest that takes place on Super Tuesday – the March 5 slate of primaries that could be decisive in the race for the GOP nomination.
The California Republican Party’s executive committee voted this summer to adopt a delegate plan that could be a boon for the Trump campaign. If a candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in next year’s primary, that candidate would win all of the state’s delegates, the largest haul available in any state in the GOP presidential race.
It’s similar to the system California used in 2020, but a departure from what the state has done in certain other past primaries, when each congressional district awarded three delegates – allowing candidates to strategically target specific regions, rather than face the daunting cost of competing across the massive state.
Trump’s trip to California comes near the end of his busiest stretch of campaigning since launching his 2024 presidential bid.
The former president held a rally in South Carolina on Monday, visited autoworkers in Michigan on Wednesday, travels to California on Friday and is set to campaign in Iowa on Sunday.
The one stop missing from his travel schedule: the Ronald Reagan…
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