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Ronna McDaniel quells revolt to win reelection as chair of fractured RNC
Source: Washington Post
DANA POINT, Calif. The Republican National Committee on Friday voted to reelect Ronna McDaniel to a fourth two-year term as party chair, opting not to punish her for the GOPs recent string of electoral defeats.
McDaniel fended off a challenge from Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who has represented former president Donald Trump and the unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, seizing on grass-roots furor demanding new leadership. McDaniel positioned herself as a steady hand and honest broker who can hold together the partys factions and continue building out the RNCs financial and field resources. She prevailed on the first ballot, 111-51.
McDaniel argued that the RNC did its job in the midterms by providing the infrastructure for turning out voters. She acknowledged that the party struggled with its nominees a problem that many Republicans have attributed to influence of Trump, though McDaniel didnt address the former president in her remarks on Friday morning.
The RNC, we dont get to pick the candidates, the voters do, McDaniel said. We dont get to call the plays, we dont get to say what the campaigns run on. But we do provide resoureces and we build a critical infrastructure to help candidates win. McDaniel said Republicans won the popular vote by 4 million, equivalent to 297 Electoral College votes, and made inroads with minority voters.
McDaniel fended off a challenge from Harmeet Dhillon, a California lawyer who has represented former president Donald Trump and the unsuccessful Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, seizing on grass-roots furor demanding new leadership. McDaniel positioned herself as a steady hand and honest broker who can hold together the partys factions and continue building out the RNCs financial and field resources. She prevailed on the first ballot, 111-51.
McDaniel argued that the RNC did its job in the midterms by providing the infrastructure for turning out voters. She acknowledged that the party struggled with its nominees a problem that many Republicans have attributed to influence of Trump, though McDaniel didnt address the former president in her remarks on Friday morning.
The RNC, we dont get to pick the candidates, the voters do, McDaniel said. We dont get to call the plays, we dont get to say what the campaigns run on. But we do provide resoureces and we build a critical infrastructure to help candidates win. McDaniel said Republicans won the popular vote by 4 million, equivalent to 297 Electoral College votes, and made inroads with minority voters.
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Ronna McDaniel quells revolt to win reelection as chair of fractured RNC (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jan 2023
OP
If the Pillow fool had been elected we might have seen the RNC go down in flames, dammit.
Thomas Hurt
Jan 2023
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)1. If the Pillow fool had been elected we might have seen the RNC go down in flames, dammit.
rubbersole
(6,518 posts)3. Somehow...
I think we might get to see the RNC go down in flames anyway. Lindell 'has the evidence '. Will be sharing it with the American public on Monday. Just which Monday? isn't clear.
Kennah
(14,115 posts)4. Patience. A slow fire means we get to eat more hot dogs.
Gore1FL
(21,027 posts)5. Ronna McDaniel has her own supplies of lighter fluid and matches. nt
czarjak
(11,191 posts)18. Books don't burn themselves.
IronLionZion
(45,250 posts)2. Republicans in disarray
Zorro
(15,691 posts)6. I hear the election was rigged
bluestarone
(16,720 posts)7. Well looks like God DUMPED him again!
ironflange
(7,781 posts)8. Will Lindell remand a recount?
smb
(3,452 posts)23. Call The Cyber Ninjas! Check The Ballots For Bamboo Fibers! nt
MustBeTheBooz
(264 posts)9. "Thank you, sir! May I have another!?" Ha! nt
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)10. Makes you wonder what she agreed to do. Pretty deplorable.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)20. TRE45ON needs more help from Ronna to pay his increasing legal bills.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)22. Sounds right. Cash cow revenue stream
republianmushroom
(13,045 posts)11. wonder if the cost was as high as Kevins speaker ship
Warpy
(110,900 posts)12. She's awful, she was just fortunate in her chief adversary
Mike Lindell is regarded as a clown by everybody but the lunatics.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)13. "She acknowledged that the party struggled with its nominees"
"She acknowledged that the party struggled with its nominees"
Wonder if Kari Lake disagreed with that one?
Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)14. One More Brick In the Wall...
peppertree
(21,526 posts)15. And Miser Ronna
Raine
(30,540 posts)16. McDaniel is Mitt Romney's niece
it's not what she knows but who she's related to.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)21. Ronna gave up using the family name in order to kiss Trump's ass.
Response to brooklynite (Original post)
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FakeNoose
(32,328 posts)19. Ronna McDaniel isn't exactly anti-Chump
However it seems that Chump is anti-McDaniel, so there's that.