Republican leaders shift focus away from Trump at donor retreat.
Former President Donald Trump spoke at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville, making his case for a return to the White House and arguing that he deserves another chance to finish a dramatic party transformation that he started nearly eight years ago. Trump traded the election grievance rhetoric for a different type of message, his vision for the future, while arguing that he single-handedly "saved" the Republican Party from "the establishment class" when he won in 2016. Trump urged Republican donors to help put him back in the White House through electoral strategies he once decried, like robust mail-in voting and ballot harvesting.