EXCLUSIVE: Ronna McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), says she is confident that former President Trump will not start a splinter party.
However, McDaniel showed that the IDP ‘must unite’ to be successful in the 2022 election, while the party hopes to win back majorities in the House and Senate and retain its advantage over the Democrats. in the governorships and state legislatures.
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“I talked to the president (Trump). I talked to other people around the president who talk to him every day. He’s not going to start a third party,” McDaniel said in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks at the Trump Victory Press Conference on November 6, 2020 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. McDaniel spoke about the status of the election and the intentions to pursue allegations of wrongdoing in Michigan and across the country. (Photo by Elaine Cromie / Getty Images)
Recent national reports suggest that the former president was in talks with top political advisers about the possibility of forming a third party – possibly called the ‘The Patriot Party’ – that Trump would lead and use to compete with the GOP.
But Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller, 2020, told Fox News on Sunday that the former president ‘made it clear that his goal is to win back the House and Senate for Republicans in 2022’. Miller added that “nothing is actively planned regarding an effort out there, but it depends entirely on the Republican Senators if it is something that gets more serious.”
This appears to be an implicit warning to Republican senators not to vote with Senate Democrats to convict Trump in the upcoming Senate hearing.
Trump has repeatedly vowed to play an influential role in the GOP going forward, threatening to rebuild Republicans’ primary challenges for re-election in 2022, which did not support his unsuccessful attempt to advance his election defeat against President Biden. Trump is also flirting with a presidential run in 2024 to try to win back the White House.
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While he was politically wounded by the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by right-wing extremists and other Trump supporters who want to disrupt the Congress’ certification of Biden’s victory in the White House – at the encouragement of the then president – the latest poll indicates that Trump remains very popular among Republicans. .
This sentiment seems to be reflected in the actions of IDP members of Congress. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans in the House – even after the congressional session was delayed six hours after the uprising against the Capitol – objected to the outcome of the two-state election college that Biden opposed in the presidential election with Trump . And 197 Republicans in the House voted two weeks ago to prosecute Trump, with only 10 GOP lawmakers joining all 222 Democrats to vote for the indictment.
Trump’s top political adviser, Corey Lewandowski, who highlighted the quarter-billion dollars Trump has raised since the November election earlier this month, told Fox News at the time that the fundraiser gave him (Trump) the opportunity will give to target individuals who do not support the Make America Great Again agenda in 2022, and that includes Republicans. “
“You have someone who is incredibly popular, who has huge amounts of cash on hand and has the opportunity and desire to consider people and hold them accountable for their statements and their records,” Lewandowski said.
McDaniel told Fox News Trump is “interested in getting involved in the medium term to ensure we win back the majority.”
But asked about Trump’s attacks on Republicans that could be re-elected in 2022 – like governments. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Mike DeWine of Ohio and Senate Minority Whip Senator John Thune of South Dakota – McDaniel replied that “for a very good reason the RNC remains neutral in the by-election. Because someone has to be there to make the pieces difficult primaries and help bring the party back together to focus on how we win the general election. ‘
And she noted that “even when the president was in office and endorsed in primary elections across the country, the RNC maintained its neutrality.”
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This past weekend, the Arizona GOP condemned Republican Gov. Doug Ducey, as well as Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Arizona senator, and Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008. The move came when the Republican Party’s state president – strong Trump supporter Kelli Ward – was carefully re-elected, thanks in part to the support of the former president.
McDaniel told Fox News that “Kelli and I talked about the resolutions as they came. She knew where I stood, specifically with the first draft of the Cindy McCain resolution, which was just a horrible language.”
The interview of the RNC chairperson comes as Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is number three in the GOP leadership in the chamber, was executed by a majority of Republicans from the House for her removal from her leadership position due to her vote in favor of the accusation of Trump.
Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, a leading Trump ally in the House, is on his way to Wyoming to direct Cheney on Thursday.
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“I’m coming to talk about the failed leadership of Liz Cheney in our party and the failed policies she advocates,” he told reporters on Monday. “Most members of the Republican Conference do not believe Liz Cheney speaks for them. It is therefore untenable for her to remain in the position of conference chair.”
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel stands on stage in an empty Mellon auditorium as she addresses the Republican National Convention in the Mellon Auditorium on August 24, 2020 in Washington, DC (Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Against this backdrop is McDaniel’s ‘sermon party unit’.
“I have a firm belief that we must unite as a party,” stressed McDaniel, who was unanimously re-elected earlier this month to another two-year term running the National Party Committee, thanks to the approval of Trump, then Senate Majority Leader. Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the two leading Republicans in Congress.
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McDaniel warned that “if we continue to attack each other and concentrate on attacking fellow Republicans, and if we have differences of opinion within our party, we will lose sight of 2022. The only way we are going to win is if “We come together and acknowledge that our policies of tax cuts, deregulation, energy independence, judges, our policies that the American people want to hear about. They do not want to hear about infighting within the IDP.”
While the GOP brand probably got a hit from the Capitol storm, McDaniel does not think it will last long.
“We started with an accusation last year and I don’t think most people remember that. The news cycles are changing,” she noted. “I think people are going to vote based on ‘how is this going to affect my life?’
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And she stressed that paintings contrasting with the Biden government and the Congress Democrats will win the day in 2022.
“You already see that Biden is proposing policies that will bankrupt our country … eliminate all jobs in key states,” the RNC chairman accused. “The further we get through this and the contrasts from a policy perspective between the government we have now and those in office. I think we have a good chance and we will win back the majorities in 2022.”