Key Highlights
- The RNC on Thursday advanced a change to the party's rules that would allow Chairman Joe Gruters "to convene a special ceremonial convention outside a presidential election cycle," according to a memo shared first with Fox News Digital. National political conventions, where party delegates from around the country formally nominate their party's presidential candidates, normally take place during presidential election years.
- But with Republicans aiming to protect their narrow control of the Senate and their razor-thin House majority in this year's elections, President Donald Trump announced in September that the GOP would hold a convention ahead of the midterms "in order to show the great things we have done" since recapturing the White House.
- SHOWDOWN FOR THE HOUSE: DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS BRACE FOR HIGH-STAKES MIDTERM CLASH President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee July 18, 2024.
- (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via ) The new memo highlights "the possibility of an America First midterm convention-style gathering aligned with President Trump’s vision for energizing the party this fall."The party in power, in this case the Republicans, normally faces stiff political headwinds in the midterms.
- And the hope among Trump and top Republicans is that a midterm convention would give the GOP a high-profile platform to showcase the president's record and their congressional candidates running in the midterms.
