{"id":1825456,"date":"2023-01-26T16:35:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1825456"},"modified":"2023-01-26T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:35:56","slug":"ron-desantis-appears-to-back-candidate-in-race-for-rnc-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ron-desantis-appears-to-back-candidate-in-race-for-rnc-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Appears To Back Candidate In Race For RNC Chair"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fron-desantis-appears-to-back-candidate-in-race-for-rnc-chair%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=1825456&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-->\n<p>Florida Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u00a0During an interview on Thursday, he was able to speak in support of the attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/author\/harmeet-k-dhillon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harmeet Dhillon<\/a> In her quest to be the Republican National Committee&#8217;s new chair.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 remarks come one day before RNC committee members will vote on a secret ballot for positions in the party, including the chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to get some new blood in the RNC,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/desantis-its-time-for-change-at-the-rnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> During an interview.\u00a0\u201cI like what Harmeet Dhillon has said about getting the RNC out of D.C. Why would you want to have your headquarters in the most Democrat city in America? It\u2019s more Democrat than San Francisco is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the interview DeSantis attacked Ronna McDaniel as RNC Chairwoman. She stated that the GOP has had several poor elections under her watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had three substandard election cycles in a row, \u201918, \u201920, and \u201922, and I would say of all three of those, \u201922 was probably the worst, given the political environment of a very unpopular President Biden, huge majorities of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThat is an environment that\u2019s tailor-made to make big gains in the House and Senate and state houses all across the country, and yet that didn\u2019t happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stated, &#8220;The party needs to have the right people.&#8221; \u201cfresh thinking\u00a0\u2014 here\u2019s the thing, just practically speaking, you need grassroots Republicans to power this organization with volunteering and donations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s going to be very difficult to energize people to want to give money, to want to volunteer their time with the RNC if they don\u2019t see a change in direction,\u201d DeSantis continued.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis answered a question regarding his experience with RNC.\u00a0\u201cran our election, assuming we weren\u2019t going to be involved with the RNC at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8BREAKING: Gov. BREAKING: Gov.\ud83d\udea8<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had 3 substandard election cycles in a row, \u201918, \u201920, and \u201922, and I\u2019d say \u201922 was the worst\u2026I think we need a change. I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC. I like what Harmeet Dhillon has said\u2026\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dayeCSVtJ0\">pic.twitter.com\/dayeCSVtJ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1618673930998525952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis stated that his win in the state was due to his own ground game and get out the vote operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it was very successful, you know, but that was really being driven by our agenda, our accomplishments, and us putting a lot of dollars behind this important ground game,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis also stated that the Republican Party should become less. \u201cconsultant driven\u201d Rather, put more emphasis on the needs and wants of voters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis money that\u2019s going in needs to go to ultimately winning elections and not to be lining the pocket of so many consultants. So we need huge transparency on that,\u201d said DeSantis.\u201dYou can\u2019t have incentives to where the campaigns and the operations are run with an eye to putting more money in the pocket of the consultant class. And obviously, they\u2019re very powerful in D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of trust between the grassroots and the RNC up in D.C. In fact, when I would do fundraising, I\u2019d raise money for the Republican Party of Florida, we would do good, but if I did fundraising for me instead of for the party, we\u2019d raise much more money, because they trust the people that they see doing the job,\u201d He added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u00a0appeared during an interview on Thursday to back attorney Harmeet Dhillon in her bid to become the new chair of the Republican National Committee. DeSantis\u2019 remarks come one day before RNC committee members will vote on a secret ballot for positions in the party, including the chairmanship. \u201cI think we need to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1825459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5840,4076,5184,4980,5069,6915,8679],"class_list":["post-1825456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-appears","tag-candidate","tag-chair","tag-desantis","tag-race","tag-rnc","tag-ron"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1825459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}