Ronna McDaniel

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GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel wins party leadership vote (NPR)

The Republican National Committee chair won her bid to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal ...

McDaniel is now set to lead the RNC through the 2024 election. McDaniel's team was confident she would win without his public backing, allowing her to maintain a sense of neutrality heading into the 2024 presidential primary season. The California Republican closely aligned herself with Caroline Wren, a former Trump fundraiser who was involved with raising money for the Washington rally on Jan. "The party is not united," McDaniel's chief rival, Trump attorney Harmeet Dhillon, told reporters in the hallway soon after standing alongside McDaniel on stage. Yet friends and foes alike agree that she will not be leading the RNC from a position of strength. McDaniel, whom Donald Trump tapped as RNC chair in 2016, won the the secret ballot 111 to 51.

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Ronna McDaniel wins RNC chair race that grew very messy by the ... (Politico)

Ronna McDaniel will serve a rare fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee, emerging victorious in a contentious bid for reelection.

In the note, he wrote that McDaniel’s remarks “showed incredible unwillingness to face the reality of what happened last evening,” adding that he and other members “want a real, honest assessment of what happened.” Last week, McDaniel sent members a document she called her “Vision for Unity,” which included plans to improve Republicans’ “legal ballot collecting” efforts, find new tactics for small-dollar fundraising that has suffered in recent years, and boosting the youth vote. Asa Hutchinson, a likely 2024 presidential contender who could be seen meeting with reporters in the hotel lobby on Wednesday and Thursday. 14, McDaniel held a lengthy call with members — taking questions and making her case for why she should continue in the role. By the end of the week, McDaniel had assembled a list of more than 100 members publicly supporting her. “I think the RNC is going to have a lot of trouble raising small-dollar donations, a lot of trouble rebuilding trust,” Kirk said. (He received one write-in vote on Friday.) And Palatucci — upset by what he described as McDaniel’s brief “disaster” of a call with RNC members on Nov. In the text, Trump joked about disliking one of her endorsers (she declined to say who). Asked Friday about the encounter, Jones smiled and shrugged, saying “there’s not much more to say.” “I think Harmeet could have taken a different approach and said, ‘The RNC, it isn’t where we want to be. “We did not expect this to become a national grassroots movement,” she said. Dhillon had assured concerned members that Kirk, a firebrand conservative figure, wouldn’t be part of RNC staff, should she win.

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RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel elected to fourth consecutive term (CNN)

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was elected to a fourth consecutive term Friday after winning the support of about two-thirds of the ...

Dhillon’s law firm represented Trump in his dealings with the House select committee that investigated the [January 6, 2021, attack](https://www.cnn.com/specials/politics/january-6-insurrection) on the US Capitol. During a speech at the beginning of Friday’s meeting, McDaniel implicitly pushed back at criticisms of her leadership record as she argued that the party must be united headed into 2024. Both women assured members that they would look closely the RNC’s spending on consultants and outside vendors as the party charts the course forward into the next cycle. There are broad disagreements among RNC members about how to steer the party back into a position of strength before the 2024 presidential election, with Trump [first ran for party chair](https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/22/politics/ronna-romney-mcdaniel-badass-women-of-washington/index.html) in 2017. Trump had recently endorsed Whatley after crediting him with “leading North Carolina to tremendous success in the recent election” and said he was “MAGA all the way.” Trump’s choice for RNC Treasurer, Joe Gruters – the chairman of the Republican Party of Florida who had backed McDaniel in her run for a fourth consecutive term – also lost on Friday. Dhillon’s allies had suggested that many members would switch to the California committeewoman when the secret voting began, but that dynamic did not pan out. After her win Friday, McDaniel invited Dhillon and Lindell onstage for a photo op, implicitly attempting to rebut criticism about the fractured nature of the party. Trump’s endorsed candidate for RNC co-chair, North Carolina Republican Chairman Michael Whatley, withdrew after trailing South Carolina GOP Chairman Drew McKissick, who won after several rounds of voting. After just one round of voting, the parliamentarian announced that McDaniel had received 111 of the 167 votes cast. Dhillon received 51 votes and four ballots were cast for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a 2020 election denier and ardent Trump backer. “With us united and all of us going together, the Democrats are going to hear us in 2024,” McDaniel said.

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Republicans Re-elect Head of the R.N.C. After a Heated Challenge (The New York Times)

Ronna McDaniel won a fourth two-year term to lead the Republican National Committee, fending off a fierce challenge after the party's poor midterm showing.

Ms. And while Ms. She accused Ms. Accusations that Ms. McDaniel had six years to win over the loyalties of a majority of committee members. McDaniel invited Ms. She earned endorsements from state parties in Washington and Nebraska with broadsides against Ms. In the end, Ms. Supporters of Ms. “But with us united and all of us going together, the Democrats are going to hear us in 2024.” “We heard the grass roots,” Ms. McDaniel, 49, a granddaughter of a moderate Republican governor of Michigan, George Romney, and a niece of Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, promised to be the agent of change that Republican activists wanted and to keep the committee neutral in the coming presidential primary contest.

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Ronna McDaniel re-elected as RNC chair (Axios)

Why it matters: The RNC chair election exposed GOP infighting after the Republican Party's showing in the midterm elections and conflict over the vision for the ...

McDaniel was chair of the Michigan GOP before becoming RNC chair. What they're saying: "After a hard-fought effort, we unfortunately came up short," Dhillon said in a statement. [per the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/ronna-mcdaniel-harmeet-dhillon-rnc.html). [MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell](https://www.axios.com/2022/09/14/mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-fbi-seized-cellphone). [midterm elections](https://www.axios.com/2022/11/09/midterm-election-results-2022-senate-control) and conflict over the vision for the party before 2024. [Ronna McDaniel](https://www.axios.com/2022/12/13/ronna-mcdaniel-rnc-2024) secured a fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee on Friday, following a bitter election over the leadership post, [multiple](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/27/rnc-election-mcdaniel-dhillon/) [outlets](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ronna-mcdaniel-wins-re-election-fourth-term-rnc-chair-rcna66763) reported.

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