Trump Responds to Ronna McDaniel’s RNC Chair Reelection

Former President Trump was congratulated Ronna McDaniel for winning another term as chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday.

Trump has not publicly endorsed any candidate ahead of the vote, as some Republicans have said that McDaniel should be ousted following a poorer-than-anticipated midterm election for the GOP.

“Congratulations to Ronna McDaniel on her big WIN as RNC CHAIR. Now we have to STOP THE DEMOCRATS FROM CHEATING IN ELECTIONS!” Trump Write on Truth Social after voting results showed McDaniel won.

Trump stated previously that he liked McDaniel as well as Harmeet Dahillon.

“I think they’re both good. I like them both,” Trump Submitted Breitbart last month. “It’s like when I asked Queen Elizabeth when we were together: ‘Which president did you like the best?’” He continued. “She said: ‘I liked them all.’”

Trump mentioned that Dhillon had represented him in court cases.

“Harmeet is a lawyer for me, you know,” He stated. “Harmeet is my lawyer.”

Friday’s vote represented the most significant challenge to McDaniel, a member of the Romney political family and a niece of Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah.) McDaniel faced two opponents: Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney, and Mike Lindell (CEO of MyPillow). McDaniel was awarded 111 votes; Dhillon earned 51 votes and Lindell received four.

“The work to make Joe Biden a one-term president is already underway: it is time for our party to unite and re-dedicate ourselves to electing Republicans up and down the ballot,” McDaniel stated after her reelection. “I look forward to working alongside conservative leaders, including Harmeet and Mike, from across our party to deliver on our promises to the American people.”

Dhillon was supported by a few prominent conservatives. Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point USA, had publicly urged RNC members to oppose McDaniel’s vid.

Speak to Politico Kirk called her victory Friday “a direct insult to the grassroots people that they send 10 emails a day to, begging for money.” “I think the RNC is going to have a lot of trouble raising small-dollar donations, a lot of trouble rebuilding trust.”

“Going into 2024,” He added: “the apparatus that should be a machine and clicking on all cylinders and firing on all cylinders is going to be in a trust deficit.”

McDaniel’s victory suggests that “a majority of the members of the RNC have contempt for the people that put them there,” Kirk Submitted Fox News Friday  “I cannot in good faith tell our audience … to keep giving money to the RNC. In fact I tell them not to.”

Attorney Harmeet Dahillon, ex-vice chairwoman of California’s Republican Party, spoke at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio on July 19, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

DeSantis Support

Florida Governor Donald Trump supported Dhillon. Ron DeSantis (a possible 2024 candidate) was announced earlier in the week.

“I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC,” Kirk was interviewed by DeSantis on Thursday. “I like what Harmeet Dhillon has said about getting the RNC out of D.C. Why would you want to have your headquarters in the most Democrat city in America? It’s more Democrat than San Francisco is,” He stated.

DeSantis pointed out the poor performance of the GOP during the previous three elections.

“We’ve had three substandard election cycles in a row: ‘18, ‘20 and ‘22. And I would say of all three of those, ‘22 was probably the worst. Given the political environment of a very unpopular president in Biden, huge majorities of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction—that is an environment that’s tailor-made to make big gains in the House and the Senate and in state houses all across the country. And yet that didn’t happen,” DeSantis said.

Dhillon’s and Lindell’s Responses

Dhillon released a statement after Friday’s loss, stating that the GOP was her choice. “will be better for the tough conversations that were desperately needed about how to reform the RNC to win elections and earn the trust of our voters, activists, and donors.”

“After a hard-fought effort, we unfortunately came up short,” Dhillon, an attorney based in California, also added to her statement. “However, the RNC will be better for the tough conversations that were desperately needed about how to reform the RNC to win elections and earn the trust of our voters, activists, and donors.”

Dhillon stated that she will work with grassroots organizers as well as the RNC in the run-up to the 2024 election.

Mike Lindell, CEO of MyPillow, speaks Nov. 15, at the former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“It is critical for our chances in 2024 that those who supported my campaign rally around our party and its candidates so we can win elections and deliver badly-needed results,” She continued.

Lindell, MyPillow founder, admitted that he lost in the RNC election.

“Yes,” he told a Reporter Semafor When asked about his loss, he said that he had. “There were no machines.”

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