Posted on 01/27/2023 4:30:10 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
After nearly two months of barbs and accusations, a major fight for the future of the Republican Party concludes Friday at a luxury seaside resort in southern California’s Orange County.
That’s where the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) 168 members, gathering for their annual winter meeting, will hold a secret ballot vote for the national party’s next chair.
On the eve of the highly anticipated vote, one of the most popular politicians in the GOP weighed-in on the race, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for "a change" and urged "new blood" at the RNC. The conservative governor, whose seen his standing soar among conservatives across the country over the past three years, proceeded to give a shout-out to RNC chair Ronna McDaniel’s primary challenger, California committee member Harmeet Dhillon.
Remaining neutral on the eve of the vote was former President Donald Trump, who arguably remains the GOP’s most popular and influential politician, and the only major contender to date to launch a 2024 presidential campaign.
The RNC showdown, their first hotly contested chair race in a dozen years, has become a contentious family feud as the GOP decides its leadership. All while the party jumps into an election cycle seeking to win back the White House, regain the Senate majority and hold its fragile control of the House. It also comes as the party aims to rebound from a disappointing showing in November’s midterm elections and as it debates the future of the party and Trump’s continued grip over the GOP.
McDaniel, who’s running for a fourth term steering the RNC, which is unprecedented in modern times, is being challenged by Dhillon, an attorney who served as a Trump legal adviser. Dhillon announced her bid for RNC chair on the Fox News Channel early last month.
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Time to send Romney a message.
She is a Five Times Loser .
She has destroyed the RNC .
Spent millions on learjets , five star resorts , and lots of botox , fillers on that cubby plain face .
She has wiped out our Ground game and fundraising .
She managed millions .
She needs a criminal investigation .
Was she a Dem plant ?
Have the mail-in ballots been counted yet? /s
Interesting that Fox didn’t mention Lindell, especially when the majority of voters want him, per Rasmussen.
Lindell - 30%
Dhillon - 20%
Romney - 15%
Mercedes Schlapp I’m O’Connor and Co just said that Trump has been quietly, behind the scenes supporting McDaniel and she is favored to win.
FIRE THAT LOSER, RONNA!!!
Well, she is a Romney
So yes
With everything EXCEPT securing Florida’s elections.
Why is that...?
Yup. Romney’s niece. I’d vote for Mao if he were running against anything Romney.
Lol
good point
What is up with Trump, anyhow?
I guess the vote is today. Hopefully the 168 are listening to the voters in their states and not Trump. Voters do NOT want Ronna.
Someone on War Room was saying that in many cases when someone donates $100 to the RNC, only $6.00 goes to the candidates. The fund-raising contractors (chosen by Ronna) skim $90.00, and $4.00 goes to other various places.
And if candidates refuse to use Ronna’s contractors, she will punish them. “No RNC funds for you!”
“Trump appointed and reappointed the Crook Ronna”
Well, damn, I guess Hillary should have won the election in 2016. We would be so much better off and we would not have had to go throuh the tribulalion of a Trump presidency.
Why hasn’t Trump? Q-balls have been saying that Trump had it all, in real time as it happened (cheating) and yet he never brought it before the Supreme court, never released it to the people. Who does that?
Someone with grandchildren
Rasmussen is indeed showing that result, which tells me Republicans have lost the plot. Mike Lindell is a full-on nut.
Lindell probably needs a job.
He is now a business school study. He hawked his pillows to the point where his market was saturated and sales declined or dried up. He then began selling sheets and slippers made by others. The products didn’t sell well and he is now hawking sheets and slippers at enormous discounts.
His efforts to sell coffee lasted just a few weeks.
“Mike Lindell is a full-on nut.”
Yeah; I know. Those many millions of dollars appeared on the branches of the money tree in his yard.
We all should be so nutty.
Seriously, it’s been said that he’s some kind of savant in the area of recognizing and analyzing critical, standard, and mathematical deviations.
“His efforts to sell coffee lasted just a few weeks.”
Um... he’s still selling coffee — and everything else.
Mike Lindell has no business chairing the RNC.
I swear, many Republican voters will not see the Big Picture until we're losing elections in Wyoming.
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