Posted on 01/24/2024 10:59:21 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel effectively declared Donald Trump the GOP’s presumptive nominee as she urged Nikki Haley to end her presidential campaign.
McDaniel joined Fox News’ Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Tuesday night to talk about Trump’s New Hampshire primary victory, and how it narrows Haley’s chances of rivaling the former president for the nomination. Haley declared her intent to keep her campaign going despite the loss. Yet McDaniel determined that the primary was a done deal and that the former South Carolina governor should start falling in line behind Trump.
I’m looking at the math and the path going forward and I don’t see it for Nikki Haley. I think she’s run a great campaign, but I do think there’s a message that’s coming out from the voters that’s very clear. We need to unite around our eventual nominee, which is going to be Donald Trump. We need to make sure we beat Joe Biden. It is ten months away until the November election and we can’t wait any longer to put our foot on the gas to beat the worst president… We need to do everything we can to unite so that we can defeat him.
Way too little, way too late.
Waste of potential donor funds at this point. RNC needs cash.
I’d like to see Ronna fall in line behind Scott Presslar and let him take over the RNC. Ronna is a waste of air.
If she stays in and get clobbered in SC she ruins any chance of future political gain. Unless she is being funded by DNC$ and this is her last chance at big $$ she will drop out. M2C.
On the contrary. If Ronna McRomBush says it, that means that wing of the party has thrown in the towel.
Ronna means we have to unite against Trump. When will RNC have mgmt that works for Republicans…
A better move for the RNC is to replace McConnell and McDaniel.
It was not “necessary” for her to weigh in—I am pleasantly surprised that she did so.
What she knows is that Democratic billionaires are funding Nikita—so what looks like a primary is really a second general election campaign against a Democrat.
That is a waste of resources—and her job is make good use of party resources (while living in the luxury she is accustomed to, of course :-) ).
You’re making a lot of generalizations and equivocations here.
We rightfully criticized the DNC for using their phony superdelegate system to force their preferred candidate, Hillary Clinton, on the voters, when the more popular candidate was Bernie Sanders.
That’s NOT what’s happening here - it’s the opposite: The Uniparty Never-Trumper mega donors that control the RNC are trying to force their preferred candidate, Nikki Haley on the voters, when the more popular candidate is Donald Trump.
Moreover, settling on a presumptive nominee early is a good thing if it is justified, and in the case of Trump vs. Haley it most certainly is. She has no path to win - she is not in it to win it - she is a spoiler and everyone knows it.
The earlier you can settle on a nominee the better and in this case, we settled on Trump 4 years ago - this whole primary process is a joke. Trump was right to skip the debates and I’m sure he’d skip the primaries if he could.
By the way: Rhona McDaniels is not being sincere here - she is only “weighing n” to try to sound like she’s on our side (which she’s not) in order to keep from getting fired.
ANY political analyst will tell you that this primary is over, Nikki can’t win. She is damaging Republican chances she “claims” to support.
Good post—btw it was Bernie Sanders that got the second largest vote total ever in a New Hampshire primary.
Donald Trump got the most votes ever—this year.
“ANY political analyst will tell you that this primary is over, Nikki can’t win”
That’s exactly the argument made against Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. If she can’t win, let her lose.
No, Bernie actually could have won and was on his way of winning. He won the popular vote in the 2020 Iowas caucus, Nikki won one district. He won the popular vote and delegate count in NH, Not Nikki. Face it, it's over for your gal.
Because she wants to give the false impression she's being supportive of Trump, all while plotting with the GOP establishment to stab him in the back?
I have no problem with Nikki staying in and losing every single primary and caucus state.
It might actually enhance President Trump’s standing.
However I do understand that the RNC might view that as a waste of resources.
The best argument for Nikki to stay in is to give South Carolina Republicans the opportunity to punish her for her vicious betrayal.
I wonder if you even know what that betrayal was....
Every South Carolina Republican knows what it is...
Resign, Ronna.
GOPe realizes Trump will win.
Need to change to co-opt strategy, mole infiltration operations. Etc.
Wanna bet the FBI already has him wire tapped 24/7.
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