Executive
McCarthy trying to prevent Trump nomination – reports
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) seems to be trying to dilute Donald Trump’s delegate strength from California with a last-minute bylaw change.
A disturbing body of evidence seems to show that Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Speaker of the House of Representatives, is trying to keep the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination from former President Donald J. Trump.
What McCarthy is doing
Laura Loomer, lone investigative journalist and one-time Republican primary candidate for Congress, has a default exclusive on the story. She published her latest substantive allegation yesterday (July 4). In four text images and a long-form tweet, she accused the California Republican Party of planning to change its bylaws governing the assignment of delegates to the Republican National Convention. Per the present rules, California awards most delegates to the first-place finishers in various House districts. In addition, the Party awards certain at-large delegate slots to the first-place finisher. But the photographed documents show a proposal to change that to proportional awards of delegates in House districts and at-large.
The release of those documents has hit Twitter like a thunderclap – and actually enhanced Loomer’s prestige. One wag posted this graphic to point out that Loomer has “the receipts,” the common expression for direct evidence.
Her chief allegation is that California Republican Chairman Jessica M. Patterson is making these changes at the behest of McCarthy. This has caused many users to report other instances of questionable State Party activity in other States.
Full sequence
Rep. McCarthy started this latest dust-up by indicating, in a CNBC interview, that “Trump may not be the strongest candidate.” That happened on Tuesday, June 27, and almost at once Laura Loomer shared this allegation about dirty doings by McCarthy.
In fact, Loomer had mentioned the day before that McCarthy had given permission to his donors to host fundraisers for Presidential nomination candidates other than Trump.
Apparently that didn’t go over very well with the California Repubican Party or Chairman Patterson. Loomer accused her of being a McCarthy loyalist.
In the days to come, she would expand on that thesis:
At the time of this tweet, the strategy had been for Patterson to endorse DeSantis, thus keeping Trump from “breaking 50 percent.”
Then on July 1, Ron Nehring, a past California Republican Chairman, dropped a long thread essentially saying Loomer was lying.
That’s all very well, except that, as the opening tweet shows, Chairman Patterson intends (or intended) changing the bylaws. Her signature appears on Photograph 4 of the tweet. The bylaw changes are on the agenda for the next Executive Committee meeting on July 29.
Later that day she explained the plan in full on her Substack page.
Roger Stone sent this tweet in reaction:
The dust-up has caused many to recommend that Trump cut his ties to Kevin McCarthy.
The disputes start flying
Harmeet K. Dhillon, recent candidate for the Republican National chair, suggested the bylaw change was necessary to comport with the California primary happening in March (“Super Tuesday”) instead of its traditional date in June.
Loomer was having none of it, and pointed to the secrecy behind the change.
Roger Stone wasn’t having any, either.
Nor these users:
Later that day she attacked directly the notion that an earlier primary required proportional delegate assignment:
And more:
In answer to an allegation that the Trump campaign knew what was happening, Loomer sent this:
It may or may not be significant that Kevin McCarthy was trying to apologize on June 28, the day after his “not the strongest candidate” statement. Since the latest revelations about the bylaw change, McCarthy seems to have had no comment.
Before today was out, Harmeet Dhillon appeared to backtrack on her support for a bylaw change.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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