The party’s rules demand neutrality in presidential contests when there is no incumbent running — which the RNC itself has cited as a reason it would have to stop paying the former president’s legal bills at the moment he announces his candidacy.
“The party has stated plainly that we will be neutral in the presidential primary in ’24,” said Henry Barbour, a prominent RNC member from Mississippi…
One Republican strategist said that while pro-Trump members on the RNC may try to rig debate rules to prevent her from participating, there is little they can do to alter state ballot access rules and laws. “If she wants to run as a Republican, there’s nothing they can do to keep her off the ballot.”
And while Trump and his allies have been gloating over her lopsided defeat against a challenger willing to spread Trump’s election lies, Cheney’s newfound free time come January could wind up making them wish she were still in Congress.
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