{"id":2004818,"date":"2023-08-18T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-defends-contingent-electors-plot-at-heart-of-trumps-georgia-legal-battle\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T12:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T16:19:20","slug":"ronna-mcdaniel-defends-contingent-electors-plot-at-heart-of-trumps-georgia-legal-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-defends-contingent-electors-plot-at-heart-of-trumps-georgia-legal-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronna McDaniel supports Trump&#8217;s Georgia legal battle over &#8216;contingent electors&#8217; plot."},"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%2Fronna-mcdaniel-defends-contingent-electors-plot-at-heart-of-trumps-georgia-legal-battle%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=2004818&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--><h2>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Defends Actions in 2020 Election<\/h2>\n<p>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has come forward to defend \u2062her actions following the 2020 election. In\u2064 an interview\u2062 with NewsNation&#8217;s The Hill, McDaniel addressed her involvement with the selection\u200b of &#8220;contingent electors&#8221; \u2064and emphasized that this practice is not unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel firmly stands by her actions, despite being mentioned in the latest indictment against former President Donald Trump in Fulton County. It&#8217;s important to note that she has not been charged in any of the Trump cases.<\/p>\n<h3>Contingent Electors and \u2064Legal\u200c Challenges<\/h3>\n<p>During the interview, McDaniel explained the concept of contingent electors \u2062and their purpose. She highlighted that this approach has been utilized in the past, \u2064citing the example of \u2062Hawaii. The selection of contingent electors was \u200dbased on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">ongoing legal challenges<\/a> that had the\u2064 potential to alter the outcome of the\u2064 state and subsequently affect the seating of these electors.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel emphasized that the Department of Justice indictment clearly outlines \u200cthe RNC&#8217;s\u200c understanding \u200cof the situation, and she stands by it.<\/p>\n<h3>Involvement in the Fulton County\u2064 Indictment<\/h3>\n<p>McDaniel&#8217;s name \u200dappears in\u2064 the Fulton County\u200c indictment in relation to a phone call that took place on December 8, 2020.\u200d The call involved herself, Trump, and lawyer John Eastman. During the call, they requested McDaniel&#8217;s assistance in\u200c gathering an\u2063 alternative slate of electors for\u2062 Georgia, with the intention of voting for\u200b Trump instead\u200d of President Joe Biden, who had won the state.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and 18 others were indicted by a Fulton County grand jury on\u2064 Monday, accused of participating in an\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-former-president-slams-georgia-charges-as-he-claims-witch-hunt-continues\/\" title=\"Donald Trump indicted, criticizes Georgia charges as 'Witch Hunt persists'.\">alleged racketeering scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>McDaniel&#8217;s Response to Trump&#8217;s Potential Debate Attendance<\/h3>\n<p>When \u2063asked about whether Trump will attend \u200bthe\u200b upcoming Republican debate, McDaniel stated that she \u200dhad not received confirmation either way.\u200b She did mention that the deadline for candidates to inform the RNC of their participation, pending qualification, is Monday.<\/p>\n<p>McDaniel explained that \u200cthere are specific\u200b criteria\u2062 that candidates must \u2063meet in order to make the\u200b debate stage, including polling thresholds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ronna-mcdaniel-defends-contingent-electors-plot-at-heart-of-trumps-georgia-legal-battle\/\" title=\"Ronna McDaniel supports Trump's Georgia legal battle over 'contingent electors' plot.\">small-dollar donor thresholds<\/a>, \u200cand a pledge. If \u200bthey haven&#8217;t heard from \u2062Trump by the deadline, they will proceed with a set debate \u2063stage.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republican presidential candidates, such as Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott, former Gov. Nikki Haley, and \u200bformer Gov. \u200bChris Christie, \u200chave already confirmed their attendance \u2062at the debate \u2064scheduled for Wednesday \u200dat 9 \u200bp.m. Eastern time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Trump, on the other hand, expressed doubts about attending the debate in a post on Truth Social, questioning his presence\u2064 by stating, &#8220;I&#8217;m your man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to\u2062 read more from The \u2062Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel defended her post-2020 election actions, stating that the &#8220;contingent electors&#8221; were not unusual and were chosen only if legal challenges prevailed. Despite her name being mentioned, McDaniel affirmed her support for her decisions during an interview on NewsNation&#8217;s The Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"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\/2004818","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}