{"id":2199216,"date":"2024-03-14T15:26:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-florida-gop-chairman-criticizes-rnc-members-for-allowing-trumps-takeover\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T19:29:14","slug":"former-florida-gop-chairman-criticizes-rnc-members-for-allowing-trumps-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-florida-gop-chairman-criticizes-rnc-members-for-allowing-trumps-takeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Florida GOP chair slams RNC for yielding to Trump&#8217;s dominance"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fformer-florida-gop-chairman-criticizes-rnc-members-for-allowing-trumps-takeover%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=2199216&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>A Bold Critique on RNC&#8217;s \u2062Transformation\u200b Under Trump&#8217;s Influence<\/h2>\n<p>In a fervent call to action, <strong>Al\u200d Cardenas<\/strong>, former Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, has made his disapproval crystal clear \u200bregarding the hold former President Donald Trump has on\u200b the Republican\u200d National Committee (RNC).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe RNC fired 90 people \u200b\u2014 now the operation is\u200c scant; the\u200c headquarters \u200cis moving to Palm \u200bBeach; it&#8217;s now essentially run \u200dby Trump\u2019s daughter-in-law; in essence it has become an \u2064asset-less shell while Trump exercises control \u2064over the GOP through his PACs as he sees \u200dfit,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cardenas expressed\u200b in an impassioned tweet. His voice rings with the urgency of one deeply concerned about the \u200bdirection in which the organization he once\u2062 led is heading.<\/p>\n<h3>The Underlying Concern<\/h3>\n<p>Cardenas himself served the Republican \u200dParty of Florida diligently, ascending\u200b from vice chairman to chairman, and held the distinguished role of an RNC member. \u2064His dismay is further compounded by the \u2064silence of current RNC members, who, in his view,\u200d are abdicating their responsibilities\u2064 through inaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIf you are a member of the RNC (as I was), \u200cwhat\u2064 are you doing?\u200c You have a\u200b responsibility\u200b to the organization you\u200d swore \u200dto serve \u2014 \u200byour silence and inaction is scandalous, and you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-and-zelensky-speak-by-phone-for-30-minutes\/\" title=\"Biden and Zelensky Speak by Phone for 30 Minutes\">bear equal responsibility<\/a>,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>cautions Cardenas, urging his former\u200b colleagues to reflect \u200bon their duty to the party and \u200cspeak\u200d up against the tidal shift occurring \u2062within.<\/p>\n<h3>The Tipping Point<\/h3>\n<p>His declarations\u2062 come on \u200cthe heels of penetrating changes within the RNC, \u2062spotlighting the recent hiring of Christina \u2064Bobb, known for her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/romney-cotton-to-propose-10-minimum-wage-with-mandatory-e-verify\/\" title=\"Romney, Cotton To Propose  Minimum Wage With Mandatory E-Verify\">legal work<\/a> \u200dfor \u200bTrump and former reporting for the One America News Network, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-bill-would-eliminate-single-sex-spaces-on-college-campuses\/\" title=\"New Bill Would Eliminate Single-Sex Spaces on College Campuses\">senior counsel<\/a> for election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mainstream-media-and-big-techs-seismic-shift-to-the-left\/\" title=\"Mainstream Media and Big Tech\u2019s Seismic Shift to the Left\">seismic shift<\/a> within the \u200dRNC was solidified last \u200cFriday when \u2063 <strong>Trump&#8217;s chosen figures<\/strong> restructured \u2063the party&#8217;s leadership. <strong>Michael Whatley<\/strong> is to \u200btake \u200bthe helm as the new chairperson,\u200d with <strong>Lara Trump<\/strong>, the former\u2064 president&#8217;s daughter-in-law, appointed as co-chairwoman. Trump&#8217;s influence didn&#8217;t stop there; \u2064his \u2063favored \u200bcampaign \u2062operatives, <strong>Chris \u2063LaCivita and James Blair<\/strong>, assumed\u200b senior roles within the RNC. Moreover, an upheaval of staff changes swept through the organization&#8217;s ranks, igniting a wave of terminations and reapplications,\u200b as \u2064reported by various media.<\/p>\n<p>Further complicating matters, some RNC\u2064 members alongside Lara Trump \u2063believe the\u2063 committee should extend financial aid to the former president amid\u2063 his entanglement with legal challenges totaling 85 felony charges across \u2062Washington, D.C.,\u2063 Florida, New York, \u200cand Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Washington Examiner<\/strong> sought the RNC&#8217;s perspective on these developments, hoping to glean \u2062insights\u2062 into the internal dynamics at play.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, Cardenas&#8217; stern\u200c rebuke serves as a wake-up call, imploring \u2063those within the RNC to uphold \u200ctheir oaths to an \u200binstitution now mirroring the \u2062stirring influence of Donald\u200c Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Cardenas, ex-chair of the Florida GOP, has harshly denounced the RNC for ceding control to Donald Trump, highlighting the significant staffing changes, relocation to Palm Beach, and the operational takeover by Trump&#8217;s daughter-in-law, signifying the party&#8217;s transformation under Trump&#8217;s influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2667,"featured_media":2199217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24068672983200-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP24068672983200-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199216","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\/2667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}