{"id":1826426,"date":"2023-01-27T15:35:10","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1826426"},"modified":"2023-01-27T15:44:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T20:44:31","slug":"ronna-mcdaniel-fends-off-opposition-elected-to-fourth-term-as-gop-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-fends-off-opposition-elected-to-fourth-term-as-gop-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronna McDaniel Fends Off Opposition, Elected To Fourth Term As GOP 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\">24<\/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%2Fronna-mcdaniel-fends-off-opposition-elected-to-fourth-term-as-gop-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=1826426&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>Ronna McDaniel was elected to her fourth term as head of the Republican National Committee (RNC). She fought off opposition fueled by the disappointing results from the 2022 midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>The results are the result of a heated race between Harmeet and Mike Dhillon, who sought to replace McDaniel. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/561571d13f67762b576cca42b28b15b5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of former President Donald Trump\u2019s top lieutenants, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/01\/26\/politics\/rnc-chair-vote-meeting\/index.html\">including<\/a> Susie Wiles was Susie&#8217;s top advisor and whipping votes in support of the incumbent chair.<\/p>\n<p>Other MAGA stalwarts and many of the former president\u2019s defenders in the press and on network news sided with Dhillon. The Republican Party\u2019s losses in the 2018, 2020, and 2022 elections showed that the party needs a change of pace, Dhillon\u2019s supporters argued.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott was the shock of the hour in the RNC chair race. Ron DeSantis made comments to Turning Point USA\u2019s Charlie Kirk favorable to Dhillon. According to the Florida governor, the party required \u201cnew blood\u201d At the top.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we need a change, I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC, I like what Harmeet Dhillon said about getting the RNC out of D.C.,\u201d DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/26\/desantis-scrambles-rnc-race-after-praising-dhillon-and-urging-new-blood-00079737\">said<\/a>. \u201cI do think we need some fresh thinking. And practically you need grassroots Republicans to power this organization with volunteering and donations, and I think it\u2019s going to be very difficult to energize people to want to give money and volunteer their time with the RNC if they don\u2019t change direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As McDaniel and Dhillon fought for the majority of support, it became sometimes personal. Even though Lindell ran, she was seen as a distant 3rd and unlikely to get the votes.<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon suggested McDaniel might be trying to influence committee members&#8217; votes by threatening withholding party funds from their states. McDaniel denies the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon&#8217;s opponents claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/01\/11\/harmeet-dhillon-rnc-00077583\">spread<\/a> concerns over the attorney\u2019s \u201cSikh faith.\u201d Dhillon responded to the allegations by stating that it was \u201churtful to learn that a handful of RNC members, in a close race for RNC chair, have chosen to question my fitness to run the RNC by using my devout Sikh faith as a weapon against me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel issued a statement denouncing religious bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are the party of faith, family and freedom, and these attacks have no place in our party or our politics,\u201d McDaniel said. \u201cAs a member of a minority faith myself, I would never condone such attacks. I have vowed to run a positive campaign and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronna McDaniel won her fourth term as the head of the Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday, fending off opposition driven by disappointing results from the 2022 midterm elections. The results come after a heated race in which attorney Harmeet Dhillon and pillow magnate Mike Lindell sought to replace McDaniel, according to the Associated Press. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1826429,"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":[5184,6139,16748,7032,6203,6916,3760,6917,9095],"class_list":["post-1826426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-chair","tag-elected","tag-fends","tag-fourth","tag-gop","tag-mcdaniel","tag-opposition","tag-ronna","tag-term"],"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\/1826426","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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}