Trump ally pulls RNC resolution to try and name him ‘presumptive’ nominee before primary against Nikki Haley ends: Ex-president said he wanted to win ‘the old fashioned way’

An ally of former President Donald Trump has withdrawn a resolution filed with the Republican National Committee to try to get the ex-president named the presumptive nominee before he gathered a majority of delegates to win the primaries.

David Bossie, an RNC commissioner from Maryland, withdrew the resolution Thursday evening, a person familiar told DailyMail.com, after Trump said it was unnecessary.

A spokesperson for Trump’s only rival, former UN ambassador. Nikki Haley had lashed out at the maneuver earlier on Thursday.

“While I greatly appreciate that the Republican National Committee (RNC) would like to make me their PREsumptive NOMINEE, and while they have many more votes than are necessary to do so, I feel, for the sake of PARTY UNITY, that they should NOT move forward with this plan, but do it the ‘old fashioned’ way and complete the process AT THE BALLOT,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday evening. “Thank you to the RNC for the respect and dedication you have shown me! TRUMP2024.’

Earlier, an RNC spokesperson clarified that it was Bossie — and not Chairman Ronna Romney McDaniel — behind the push.

That said, he said there was no need for the Republican National Committee to vote on a resolution at next week’s winter meeting that would declare him a “presumptive” nominee before gathering a majority of delegates — how a candidate wins the primaries

David Bossie, an ally of former President Donald Trump and an RNC committee member from Maryland, has introduced a draft resolution that would have the Republican National Committee consider Trump as the presumptive nominee. On Thursday evening he withdrew the draft resolution

“Resolutions like this are brought forward by members of the RNC. Chairman McDaniel does not make resolutions,” spokesman Keith Schipper said in a statement to DailyMail.com.

Haley’s campaign spokesperson, Olivia Perez-Cubas told The Dispatchwho first reported on Bossie’s plot asked, “Who cares what the RNC says?”

“We’re letting millions of Republican voters across the country decide who our party’s nominee should be, not a bunch of Washington insiders,” Perez-Cubas added. “If Ronna McDaniel wants to be helpful, she can host a debate in South Carolina, unless she’s also worried that Trump can’t handle being on stage for 90 minutes with Nikki Haley.”

After losing Iowa and New Hampshire to Trump, Haley said Tuesday night that she would move on and bring the 2024 primaries to her home state of South Carolina, where the Republican primaries will be held on February 24.

The move infuriated Trump and motivated Bossie, an author and prominent figure in the MAGA world.

The vote could have taken place as early as next week, as the RNC’s Winter Meeting takes place in Las Vegas.

Under current RNC rules, Trump must gather a majority of delegates — 1,215 — to become the party’s true presumptive nominee.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s campaign lashed out Thursday over a plot to have the Republican National Committee declare former President Donald Trump the presumptive nominee before he gathers a majority of delegates

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel said on Fox News Channel Tuesday night that she believed the “eventual nominee” would be former President Donald Trump.

After the first two contests, the ex-president has 32 delegates to Haley’s 17.

Adding fuel to the fire, RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel had already said she thought Haley should drop out of the race so Republicans could focus on November’s general election against Democratic President Joe Biden.

During an appearance on Fox News Channel Tuesday night — after New Hampshire was called for Trump — McDaniel said that “looking at the math and the path forward … I don’t see it for Nikki Haley.”

“I think she ran a great campaign,” McDaniel continued. “But I do think there is a message from voters that is very clear: we need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is Donald Trump, and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden. ‘

McDaniel’s comments irritated at least one former staffer, Brittany Martinez, the former deputy director of Hispanic media for the Republican Party who also worked for former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

“Former RNC employee here. Funny how I thought the RNC wasn’t allowed to interfere in primaries?’ Martinez commented on X on Wednesdaywho shares the McDaniel Fox clip.

“Instead of trying to rig the race now, why don’t they focus their efforts on urging Trump to debate Nikki and also sign the RNC nominee’s loyalty pledge? He did neither,” Martinez also said.

Trump refused to debate his Republican rivals, while Haley attended all the primary debates, although he declined to have another one-on-one debate against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis after the two feuded in Iowa earlier this month had had.

That meant that two primary debates scheduled to take place in New Hampshire were canceled.

DeSantis shockingly withdrew from the presidential race on Sunday, ahead of Tuesday’s Granite State vote, and endorsed Trump, turning the race into a showdown between the ex-president and his former UN ambassador.

The RNC’s 2024 winter meeting in Las Vegas will take place before any more votes are cast.

It comes days before the Republican primaries go to the polls – including in Nevada.

But due to a bizarre rift between state lawmakers and the Trump-aligned Republican Party of Nevada, both a Republican primary and a caucus will take place in Nevada in early February, and only the winner of the caucus will receive delegates for the nomination.

Because Haley is participating in the primaries and not the caucus, this means that all of Nevada’s delegates will go to Trump.

Once Nevada concludes, 26 more delegates (out of 2,429) will be awarded.