BREAKING: Here's Why RNC HQ Was Placed on Locked Down This Morning

The headquarters of the Republican National Committee was briefly placed on lockdown Wednesday morning and the hazardous materials team from the United States Capitol Police responded to the scene on Capitol Hill.

According to sources reported by NBC News, the emergency response stemmed from a package containing vials of blood that was sent to the RNC's offices just a few steps from House office buildings.

Capitol Police told NBC News that the package was contained and removed by its personnel while another source told the outlet that the blood was being tested, presumably to determine its source and whether any additional hazards were present in the package sent to the national headquarters of the Republican Party.

In a statement following the lockdown, U.S. Capitol Police said it was called to the RNC's offices "for the report of a suspicious package" which "contained two vials of blood" and was "cleared by our Hazardous Incident Response Division." Authorities added that the "source of the package" along with its contents are under further investigation.

Law enforcement personnel wearing gas masks just exited the RNC carrying bags of material

pic.twitter.com/VC8rBLRYfC— Jon Michael Raasch (@JMRaasch) May 22, 2024

According to NBC News, it remained unclear whether any suspects were in custody.

United States Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), the Republican nominee for United States Senate in the Hoosier State, framed the incident as an attempt to "intimidate Republicans because they know we are winning."

Vials of blood and other substances were sent to the Republican National Committee headquarters this morning.

They are trying to intimidate Republicans because they know we are winning.

5.5 months to go. https://t.co/KxEqHPv1Ds— Jim Banks (@Jim_Banks) May 22, 2024

This is a developing story and may be updated.

What is it with so many if yall? It’s like willful ignorance. You better hope all those other Republicans win. Trump won’t be able to get anything done without majorities. And yes, I realize that some of those Republicans are not Trump loyalists, but even moderate or establishment Republicans can be negotiated with to get a sizable majority (80-90%/ not all, but most) of legislation & policy changes we are seeking.

If we don’t turn out & vote for conservatives & Republicans for all other offices- we screw President Trump. He’s said as much. He needs us to vote red. If we allow Democrats to win other offices because of intra-party feuds & resentment toward establishment types, we will accomplishing nothing. We will get end up getting 0% of our interests & the things we care about addressed. As a matter of fact, Democrats in control will be constantly pushing & succeeding in making things worse than they are already.

Like, I totally get the frustration that everybody our side feels towards many in the GOP. I also want to push the party as a whole in a more conservative populist unwoke direction. That’s going to take work & electoral success, better candidates in primaries & a vision bigger than electing one man in one election. We should be working toward that right now. The only people we should be fighting with right now are Democrats & leftists & the woke. Just ignore the never Trump GOPers! We need Trump & we need conservative/Republican majorities in Congress & in the states!😉
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They aren’t the only ones causing problems. Whether people here want to admit it or not, both groups are causing problems in their own ways.

Weve always had worthless rinos in the GOP. There have been a group of them through out history. Their instincts are not particularly helpful. They are at their core moderately conservative, nervous of confrontation & want to be accepted by the media & celebrities. In half of these people, they come by it honestly. They represent areas or demographics where clear majorities are ruled by moderation & a center or center right candidate is the only Republican candidate electable on our side.

In those cases, they aren’t going to vote for all of the things we support, but they do vote with us a majority of the time. They empower our majorities, support conservative appointments to the courts, cabinet & agencies the vast majority of the time & are generally decent people. If you are looking for (our style) right wing conservatives to be nominated in centrist, moderate areas- they will absolutely lose.

We have to convincee a majority of that electorate to become conservative first. That ought to be a goal for our side- do a better job convincing people we are right. If your basic belief is that every single elected Republican from every district has to be identically conservative, we will never have a majority. If your basic attitude is ‘I don’t want to work with anybody that isn’t a carbon copy of me’, then you will never succeed politically. All of those areas you lose because of stubbornness & write off for not being ideal will be won by Democrats who are willing to team up with moderate Democrats & Independents to achieve as many of their goals as possible.

The other group (that I fully understand anger towards) making up the other half of moderate or establishment types in the Gop- are all of the flimsy, centrist, career politician, elected officials from solid, conservative districts & states who don’t adequately represent their electorate (Mitt Romney in Utah, Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, etc.). Those are places ripe for primarying with real conservatives. That’s just dealing with the moderate, establishment group causing problems for Republicans.

The other group wreaking havoc with their own set of bad attitudes are many Trump, MAGA type populist conservatives. I consider myself part of this group- so I definitely feel more loyalty towards it. I think some of the instincts on running campaigns, getting good candidates & putting out a winning message are lacking in too many instances. People are coping with those losses by not learning from them, not becoming more savvy & becoming a bunch of defeatists. The one thing I’m incredibly tired of is the badmouthing, combativeness & lack of self-reflection. Every day I read something from a fellow Trump voter about boycotting voting for anyone but Trump. Most of the past conservative successes we have had have been brought about by happy warriors, who didn’t write others off- but instead charmed & eventually convinced others to adopt a conservative idea or policy or movement.

Trump was successful in the beginning because he convinced nonvoters, Independents & different communities to hear his ideas. He was blunt & honest- but he wasn’t a sourpuss or a killjoy. He made people laugh & was iconoclastic. I cannot watch many Trump loyalists destroying things with pissy, negative attitudes (& zero understanding of how to succeed politically)- any more than I can withstand a small, elitest group of establishmentarians sell out good Americans for campaign contributions & invites to the latest D.C. cocktail party. At present, you are both spending more time smacking at one another than the communists your supposed to be campaigning against. Grow up! Or lose the country, the Constitution & any freedoms we have left.

Neither group appears to have the wherewithal or stamina or, frankly, skill to lead successfully & triumph. Both groups have become redouts of defeatists & kamikaze. I hope Trump wins & I will vote straight red as always. I will also sign up every person I can. But after this election, win or lose, I think it’s critical to find a third option for conservatives- led by a new group who wants to lead, doesn’t expect defeat & doesn’t write off any voting demographic. If you aren’t going to contribute anything real, for God sakes- step aside! 🙄🫤🤔

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