{"id":1786135,"date":"2022-12-25T06:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1786135"},"modified":"2022-12-25T07:19:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T12:19:37","slug":"rnc-chair-hopeful-harmeet-dillon-to-ben-shapiro-we-must-beat-dems-at-their-own-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-chair-hopeful-harmeet-dillon-to-ben-shapiro-we-must-beat-dems-at-their-own-game\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Chair Hopeful Harmeet Dillon to Ben Shapiro: We Must Beat Dems at Their Own Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Frnc-chair-hopeful-harmeet-dillon-to-ben-shapiro-we-must-beat-dems-at-their-own-game%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=1786135&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-24-at-10.07.51-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/rnc-chair-republicans-will-work-with-biden-to-get-things-done-if-biden-will-play-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republican National Committee<\/a> needs new leadership to beat the Democrats at their finely tuned ballot-gathering mastery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/its-getting-worse-not-better-harmeet-dhillon-on-why-the-rnc-needs-an-overhaul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would-be party chair Harmeet Dhillon<\/a> told The Daily Wire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/get.dailywire.com\/subscribe\/plus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Shapiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Shapiro\u2019s popular podcast and radio show Friday, the conservative attorney said she is challenging RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in order to inject new life into an organization on a five-year losing streak. Dhillon, founder of the Center for American Liberty, is one of two conservatives opposing McDaniel\u2019s bid for a fourth consecutive two-year term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be very fair, [McDaniel] is one of many players in Republican politics,\u201d Dhillon said. \u201cAnd so the RNC has a specific role. She\u2019s the leader of the organization. And I think in the last six years, of course, there are candidates who may or may not have made great choices. But overall, our party is supposed to provide the air cover and lay the groundwork for candidates to have the best chance of winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/the-ben-shapiro-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LATEST EPSODE OF \u201cTHE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans lost the House in 2018, the presidential election and the Senate in 2020, and barely captured the House in November\u2019s elections despite predictions of a \u201cred wave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve said from very early after the election that you don\u2019t get to lose three consecutive election cycles and keep your job,\u201d Shapiro said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of my ideas is decentralizing the Republican National Committee outside of DC and into America <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMFEST2022?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMFEST2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XVvtivDgLH\">pic.twitter.com\/XVvtivDgLH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pnjaban\/status\/1605258949665488896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The RNC is scheduled to meet in Jan. 27 in California, where 168 party delegates representing 50 states and six territories will vote on the chair. In addition to Dhillon, businessman and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is seeking the post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve already received a tremendous outpouring of support,\u201d said Dhillon, adding that voters, donors and members of Congress have reached out to her to offer their backing. \u201cThis is very much doable. It\u2019s a horse race, and we are working to convert and talk to each member, see what their concerns are, and see if I\u2019m the better candidate to address those concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The RNC\u2019s biggest failure under McDaniel, Dhillon said, has been not fighting hard enough for election integrity. She said that Democratic super-lawyer Marc Elias has filed suits around the nation aimed at making it easier to cast and collect ballots, even when the so-called \u201creforms\u201d appear to invite fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow we are playing catch-up, but our RNC [leadership] just dismantled most of our election integrity team after the election as if they are seasonal workers who, you know, picked the crop and then they go home,\u201d Dhillon said. \u201cIt is a year-round effort on the left, and it has to be a year-round effort, investment, and really vision of the chair to make that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans can push for voting integrity measures such as voter ID, no ballot harvesting, and tighter control of mail-in ballots in GOP-led states, Shapiro wondered how the party can compete in blue states where lax oversight of ballots is built into the process and exploited by Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocrats flipped a bunch of seats in 2018 and the Republicans flipped them back in 2022 specifically because people didn\u2019t ignore the way that the law actually worked,\u201d Shapiro noted. \u201cIn Florida, instead of trying to militate against, for example, mail-in voting or early voting, [Governor] Ron DeSantis and the Florida Republican Party, they said, \u2018Okay, well that\u2019s the law, so let\u2019s just do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon, whose law firm represented The Daily Wire in its landmark U.S. Supreme Court victory overturning the Biden administration\u2019s COVID vaccine mandates for private employers, agreed and said the party must take advantage of early voting, a growing practice that Republicans have traditionally been suspicious of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a dispute in our party between grassroots activists who believe that voting early lets the other side know how many votes you have,\u201d she said. \u201cI think in reality, the Democrats were able to elect virtually unelectable candidates like [Pennsylvania Senator-elect] John Fetterman, like [Arizona Governor-elect] Katie Hobbs, because they knew that no matter what the quality of the candidate was, they were going to get those votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to do that,\u201d Dhillon said. \u201cAnd as I tell grassroots leaders, our message needs to be until we can elect a legislature and a governor who will sign on to the legislatures\u2019 tightened up voting laws, we must beat the Democrats at their own game.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee needs new leadership to beat the Democrats at their finely tuned ballot-gathering mastery, would-be party chair Harmeet Dhillon told The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro. 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