The Week Ahead

The Republican National Committee will gather in Dana Point, California, to choose between Harmeet Dhillon, Mike Lindell, and current chair Ronna McDaniel to lead the party for the next two years. Though McDaniel says more than 100 of the 168 voting RNC members are behind her, and Dhillon publicly claims just 28 backers, the campaign has been bitter and personal.

Donald Trump, who has done little since declaring his 2024 presidential candidacy more than two months ago, will travel to South Carolina on Saturday for his first major public event of the campaign. But while Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) — who once called Trump a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot” and said the GOP should tell Trump “to go to hell” — will attend to offer Trump a de facto endorsement, other major Palmetto State Republicans like Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) are considering their own presidential bids.