{"id":1738412,"date":"2022-11-14T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738412"},"modified":"2022-11-14T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T21:03:36","slug":"lee-zeldin-exploring-rnc-chair-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-zeldin-exploring-rnc-chair-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Zeldin Exploring RNC Chair Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flee-zeldin-exploring-rnc-chair-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1738412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Lee-Zeldin-elecition-night-pointing-up-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is reportedly considering a bid for chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) following his candidacy in the Empire State\u2019s gubernatorial race, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">Activists and supporters across the country have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/11\/lee-zeldins-bid-for-new-york-governor-created-wins-for-republicans-across-the-empire-state\/\"><span>asked<\/span><\/a> Zeldin to run for the position following his unsuccessful bid to unseat incumbent New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul\u00a0(D) in blue New York. And according to Zeldin\u2019s media consultant,\u00a0John Brabender, the Republican is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-election\/rep-zeldin-taking-supporter-calls-running-rnc-chair-longtime-adviser-s-rcna56988\">exploring<\/a>\u00a0the option.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cIt\u2019s likely that he will at least explore it. \u2026 He\u2019s fielding calls, talking to people, listening to them, but it has not gone beyond that,\u201d Brabender said, NBC News reported.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">It remains unclear if current RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel, or her cochair, Tommy Hicks, will run for reelection, but Zeldin\u2019s consideration follows a relatively lackluster midterm election performance for Republicans, despite the fact that the GOP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/11\/10\/republicans-have-won-6-million-more-votes-than-democrats-in-house-races-but-relatively-few-seats\/\">had<\/a>\u00a0six million more votes than Democrats in House races.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">While all signs point to the GOP taking the House, Democrats maintained a slim majority in the Senate, and some Republicans are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/11\/10\/fncs-carlson-on-gop-leaderships-red-wave-failure-you-reward-excellence-you-do-not-reward-mediocrity\/\">demanding<\/a> change moving forward.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people whose job it was to win but did not win should go do something else now. We\u2019re speaking specifically of the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate and of the RNC,\u201d Tucker Carlson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/11\/10\/fncs-carlson-on-gop-leaderships-red-wave-failure-you-reward-excellence-you-do-not-reward-mediocrity\/\">said<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is nothing personal; some of them are, no doubt, nice people, but they took hundreds of millions of dollars to paint the map red, and they didn\u2019t,\u201d he continued, explaining that they \u201cshouldn\u2019t be promoted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"a8d-pre\">\u201cNo one should ever be rewarded for failure,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there is a truly conservative principle in life, it is the principle of the meritocracy. You reward excellence. You do not reward mediocrity, and when you do, things fall apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">While Zeldin\u2019s loss came as a disappointment to conservatives, many of whom <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/31\/ron-desantis-new-yorkers-you-ready-save-new-york-state\/\">hoped<\/a> that endorsements from big name politicians such as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) would push him over the edge, he lost by less than six percentage points, marking <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Cvgt7\">one of the closest<\/a> gubernatorial races in two decades. His bid also paved the way for other victories across the state, <\/span><span>flipping<\/span> multiple New York congressional seats in favor of the GOP, including the seat held by\u00a0Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chair Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY):<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We flipped 4 NY Congressional seats, broke the supermajority in the State Senate, and received the most votes of any GOP candidate since Nelson Rockefeller. Team Zeldin put in max effort every day and has no regrets. It was such an honor to lead this year\u2019s ticket. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bpOTFBrh9F\">https:\/\/t.co\/bpOTFBrh9F<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lee Zeldin (@leezeldin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leezeldin\/status\/1590525036628127744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The news follows a recent YouGov poll, which found a\u00a0plurality, 42 percent, of Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2022\/11\/11\/how-americans-feel-about-prospect-divided-congress\"><span>expressing<\/span><\/a> the need for the Republican party to take a \u201cdifferent kind of approach\u201d in the next election.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is reportedly considering a bid for chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) following his candidacy in the Empire State\u2019s gubernatorial race, according to reports. 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