Donald Trump is among the GOP contenders who will be in Anaheim on Friday for the California GOPs fall convention . Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott are set to speak to the party faithful Friday . Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is scheduled to follow them Saturday . California with its electoral votes is reliably Democratic in general elections but the state has a significant role to play in the Republican primary . The state GOP rules could enable Trump to shut his rivals out of delegates entirely . The Florida governor criticized Trumps decision to skip the debate Wednesday night and continued to call the former president missing in action the following day . A Washington PostIpsos poll released Thursday found that GOP primary voters who tuned into the debate graded De Santis onstage performance best but that overall the showdown did little to change their perspectives . The appearances in California come as Trumps primary rivals compete in what appears to be an increasingly futile battle to emerge as an increasingly difficult battle to emerged as the one of their respective candidates for the former presidential candidates to emerge from their respective respective debates . The former president held a rally in South Carolina on Monday visited autoworkers in Michigan on Wednesday and is set to campaign in Iowa on Sunday and is expected to campaign again on Sunday . The one stop missing from his travel schedule was the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley . The last debate of the primary. The one debate of this week. The debate of Wednesday night. The first debate. The second debate of July. The last. and the first debate of October. The final debate of September. The two. The Republican debate of August. The other . Republican debate. of September September September. for the Republican presidential debate of March. The
Trump heads to California GOP event two days after skipping debate . Trump has been criticized for
