Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel revealed a few days back that she will be seeking re-election.
If
re-elected this will be McDaniel’s fourth term.
McDaniel made
the announcement on a call with RNC members from around the country.
Had
the Republicans triumphed during the midterms, McDaniel would have deserved to
be re-elected.
However, that did not occur.
The GOP’s performance was thoroughly underwhelming.
What
makes it worse is that it happened against the backdrop of Biden’s catastrophic
misgovernance which continues to cause immeasurable hardships for the citizens.
The
inflation still remains at 8.2
percent causing the prices of regular items to skyrocket.
The
border is open causing human trafficking, smuggling of illicit drugs, and an
influx of 5 million illegal migrants including violent criminals.
The crime wave and the Fentanyl crisis have placed lives in peril.
The
January 6th Committee was set up to persecute political opponents. Many January
6th protestors have been subjected to draconian punishment. President Trump
continues to be hounded by the Democrats back government agencies on myriad
fronts.
But
despite all this Biden not only survived but triumphed.
The Democrats hold a majority in the Senate and managed to pick up Gubernatorial seats. In the House, the Democrats lost only 8 seats while the GOP gained the same.
The Democrats did much better under Joe Biden than they did
under Democrat stars such as Obama and Clinton at similar junctures in their respective
presidencies.
The
mainstream media placed all the blame for the GOP’s underwhelming performance
on President Trump. They attempted to make the case that Trump’s sway over
voters is rapidly fading away and that the voters rejected insurrectionists or
election deniers.
Alas,
even some sections ‘conservative’ media joined in to push this narrative that
Trump was responsible for the GOP’s midterm disappointment.
This
narrative was probably also pushed by the leadership of the RNC
The RNC leadership knows that the mainstream media is eager to prevent Trump from
running in 2024, and would readily amplify the claim that even the GOP is sick of
Trump. Another benefit is that blaming Trump is it creates so much noise that the
real offenders manage to fly under the radar.
So here are some facts.
Trump not on being on the ballot
Trump did not hold any official position in the Republican party.
In fact, it could be argued that Trump's endorsements enabled the
GOP to take back the House and retain some seats in the Senate, else it could
have been much worse.
The lion’s share of the blame has to be placed on the head of the RNC Leadership, the Senate Leadership, and the House Leadership.
The RNC leadership failed to develop a strategy to communicate with voters about the
failures of Biden and how the GOP would be able to fix those wrongs.
The RNC leadership also failed to counter Democrats' scare tactics about US Democracy being in danger and regarding abortion.
The
RNC leadership also failed to work with state authorities to bring
elections to normal where most of the voting occurs on election day with the
citizen reporting to the polling booths.
As AT's Monica Showalter wrote in her piece that as Kari Lake is bravely taking on the system for electoral fraud, the RNC Leadership seems conspcious by their absence.
Instead
mail voting i.e. early voting was still allowed and perhaps even encouraged
Biden's Executive Order 14019 from March 2021 asked all 600
federal agencies to "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to
register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the
electoral process." The Biden administration refused to reveal
details of this order. This lead many to suspect if this was merely voter
registration or if this was an act to target only Democrat voters.
Once
again the RNC leadership were mere spectators.
The Republicans didn’t seem to have much of a ground game either.
They seem to believe the claim of the red wave hence displaying
complacency and hubris.
Usually in sports when a team underperforms, the team leadership i.e. the captain, the coach and the manager accepts responsibility, issues apologies and resigns in shame and disgrace.
This is excactly what should have happened with McDaniel, McConnell and McCarthy.
But instead, McConnell was re-elected as Senate Minority Leader while McCarthy is all set to become Speaker of the House.
Doubtlessly
McDaniel thinks “if they could win, why not me’
McDaniel faces some potential challengers?
The most formidable among challengers is Lee
Zeldin (R-NY).
Zeldin recently ran in a gubernatorial race in the Democrat bastion
of New York.
Zeldin
fell just under 350,000 votes short of incumbent New York Gov. Kathy Hochul
(D). This was a difference of 5%.
This
record, despite his defeat, has made Zeldin the most successful Republican
candidate in New York since the 1994 race between George Pataki and Mario Cuomo.
If Zeldin know how to fight.
If he could achieve so much in a Democrat bastion, he seems like the man for
the job.
NBC
News reported that American Conservative Union President Matt Schlapp and
his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, a former Trump White House official, have discussed possibility of running for the job with allies. The Schlapps remain close alies of President Donald Trump
The
Huff Post reported that MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is also considering a run for RNC chair.
Lindell told the National File that “we need someone who knows
how to run a business to lead one of the most important organizations in our
country,”
The
pillow-maker said this week in a live stream video that he wanted to hear from
supporters about whether he should launch an RNC chairperson campaign, Newsweek reported.
Lindell lambasted McDaniel for the GOP's poor performance and for her failure to address election integrity issues.
Lindell said
that the RNC needs to be run like a business, which he knows how to do.
The RNC chair
election is scheduled for the party’s winter meeting in January when the 168
members of the committee vote on their next leader.
Despite her record, McDaniel is still the favorite to win reelection, with nearly 100 of the 168 voting members in support of her run for re-election.
A change in
leadership would be nice but it seems most unlikely.
McLeadership of the RNC is likely to continue.
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