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Ronna McDaniel to Step Down?
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has reportedly told former President Donald Trump that she plans step down later this month. She assumed the position in January 2017 as the president’s top choice after her role in securing the first Republican Electoral College victory in Michigan since 1988.
Last week the RNC reported its worst fundraising year in a decade, and McDaniel has taken criticism due to the GOP’s lackluster performance during her seven years at the helm—particularly after last midterm’s underdelivered “red wave”—and subsequently faced challenges from Harmeet Dhillon and Mike Lindell for the position in early 2023. With nearly 67% of the vote, she managed to hold on for a fourth term.
Since then Vivek Ramaswamy called for her resignation during the Republican primary debate in November, and Trump suggested in a Newsmax interview on Sunday that McDaniel is aware that it’s time to step down.
After a meeting with McDaniel on Monday, Trump implied on Truth Social that he would be calling for changes to the committee: “Ronna is now Head of the RNC, and I’ll be making a decision the day after the South Carolina Primary as to my recommendations for RNC Growth.”
He is expected to recommend North Carolina GOP Chairman Michael Whatley as a replacement.
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She was never “all that”. Good for the republicans if she does move on.
If true, it will be interesting to see who assumes the role. It’s pretty late in the cycle to be changing heads, no matter how warranted.
If it’s a ‘money thing’, that means big (establishment) donors. If it’s motivating and engaging The Base & smoothing over the rifts in party factions, that’s a different problemn set.
I don’t envy the person that replaces her.
I get the feeling that too many people in the GOP think they’re still living in the 1990s. They see Conservatives as merely a market segment off whom they can skim; wave a flag, spout some vaguely patriotic bilge, then cash-in.
Democrats reliably serve a Progressive agenda. I must admit that I grudgingly respect them for it and envy that their supporters actually get what they vote for. When it comes time to push a Conservative agenda the Republicans have proven unreliable, to our chagrin.
The RNC has the most lame, trite, obsolete and obnoxious fundraising appeals and tactics out there, and as often as not support RINOs against actually conservative opponents. They aren’t seeing a dime until all of that changes; I can pick my own candidates.
If Trump pushed her out because of influence from Vivek… I am a happy man. The more power Vivek gets in a Trump administration, the better off this country will be.
When Ronna’s last initiative “Bank your vote” (not a bad idea) was rolled out, I went online to check it out. I didn’t even finish ‘registering’, you could tell it was a fundraising scheme right away.
Let people ‘register’ and if they want to hit the tip jar on the way out, fine but it just looked like another fundfaising scheme. With an online profile between the news sites I read and subscribe to, it’s hard to believe that they don’t already “bank” my vote and other subscribers here, or to other sites: RedState, PJ Media, Daily Wire… I would have assumed the GOP was already buying that information some how. If they don’t know enough about my profile to safely”bank” my vote already, that’s a problem. I am a very consistent voter. I would have assumed they know that. If they are trying to reach registered or intermittent voters, leading off with the $$ pitch is really, really tone deaf.
Like many disgusted GOP voters, I’m torn between letting the GOP go the way of the Whigs and thinking of recommiting to and rejoining at my local level. The party structure is weak. If it was a meaningful vehicle to oppose the Left at the local, state and federal level, I’d join and support ($$) it much more.
Maybe he’s good, but seems like Harmeet Dhillon would have been the way to go earlier.
She was only RNC chair because she paid Trump’s legal bills out of RNC funds. Why can’t someone worth $10B pay his own legal bills?