{"id":3279,"date":"2023-01-03T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3279"},"modified":"2023-03-15T03:02:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:02:17","slug":"2024-contest-comes-into-view-with-hurdles-for-both-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3279","title":{"rendered":"2024 contest comes into view with hurdles for both parties<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Both political parties are opening the new year confronting critical questions about the people and policies they want to embrace as the next election speeds into view.
\nThe challenges are particularly urgent for Republicans, who hoped to enter 2023 with a secure grip on one, if not both, chambers of Congress. Instead, an underwhelming\u00a0midterm election\u00a0yielded only a thin House majority that will expose fierce intraparty divisions this week as California Rep.\u00a0Kevin McCarthy\u00a0fights for the speakership. And before the end of the month, the Republican National Committee must resolve a divisive leadership battle of its own.
\nA central figure in virtually everything is\u00a0Donald Trump, the former president who transformed the GOP more than seven years ago and is still fighting to exert his will over Republicans in Congress, the RNC and Republican voters just as the next presidential primary season begins.
\nRNC Chair\u00a0Ronna McDaniel\u00a0acknowledged, in an interview, that her party\u2019s greatest political challenge ahead may come from within as party leaders navigate Trump\u2019s outsized role.
\n\u201cThere\u2019s so much at stake we can\u2019t afford to be divided heading into 2024,\u201d McDaniel said, promising that the RNC would be neutral in the looming presidential nomination process. \u201cIf we are divided, we will lose.\u201d<\/p>\n

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