{"id":2237375,"date":"2024-05-04T20:37:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-rnc-chairman-says-trump-campaigns-as-a-candidate-afraid-of-losing\/"},"modified":"2024-05-04T20:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:39:30","slug":"former-rnc-chairman-says-trump-campaigns-as-a-candidate-afraid-of-losing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-rnc-chairman-says-trump-campaigns-as-a-candidate-afraid-of-losing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-RNC Chair: Trump Campaigns as Fearful Candidate"},"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\">14<\/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-rnc-chairman-says-trump-campaigns-as-a-candidate-afraid-of-losing%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=2237375&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--><p>Former RNC Chairman Michael\u200b Steele criticized Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign for fueling\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">election integrity<\/a> conspiracies. Speaking on\u200c &#8220;The Weekend,&#8221; \u200dSteele rebuked Trump&#8217;s stance on only accepting &#8220;honest&#8221; election results. He described Trump&#8217;s fear of \u200blosing\u200b and reluctance to work for victory as weak and attributed it to Trump&#8217;s ego. Steele emphasized\u200c Trump&#8217;s avoidance of traditional campaigning tactics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Former Republican National Committee Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michael-steele\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Michael Steele<\/a> criticized Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>campaign<\/a> for continuing to stoke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/2988198\/trump-skeptical-accepting-wisconsins-2024-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"conspiracies\">conspiracies<\/a> around election integrity.<\/p>\n<p>Steele offered his reaction as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/the-weekend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"The Weekend\">The Weekend<\/a><\/em>  co-host after Trump\u2019s comments in Wisconsin, where he implied he would only accept \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/2988198\/trump-skeptical-accepting-wisconsins-2024-election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"honest\">honest<\/a>\u201d election results. The former lieutenant governor of Maryland called it a \u201cweak\u201d campaign tactic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump\u00a0is afraid of losing because it strikes at the core of the thing that\u2019s most important to him, and that\u2019s his ego, and he doesn\u2019t want to do the work to actually win,\u201d\u00a0Steele said. \u201cHe wants to goad and cajole and bully people into believing something about our [electoral] system because he is too weak of a man to actually go out and campaign like any other normal candidate who would go out and campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ib-dXg6Sato?si=Pmud2um3ZMswnmtn\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The former RNC chairman lamented that Trump continued to repeat the \u201cfallacy\u201d and suggested that should Trump lose a second time in November, \u201cit\u2019s because more people voted against you than for you and our electoral system confirms that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Attorney General Bill Barr recently endorsed Trump ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 election<\/a> despite his disagreement about how Trump handled the 2020 election loss. Barr found that there was no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-says-people-shouldnt-take-what-trump-says-so-literally\/\" title=\"Bill Barr advises against taking Trump's words too literally\">significant election interference<\/a> that affected the results, which caused a rift between him and his former boss.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Steele endorsed Joe Biden ahead of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/these-voters-will-decide-the-virginia-gubernatorial-election\/\" title=\"These Voters Will Decide The Virginia Gubernatorial Election\">2020 presidential election victory<\/a>. While he hasn\u2019t endorsed anyone for president this year yet, he is likely to endorse the incumbent president again, as Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Trump\u2019s allusions to \u201chonest\u201d elections, the candidate has backed away from his opposition on mail-in ballots, which was once his primary target in his argument of election fraud. In 2020, about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2020\/11\/20\/the-voting-experience-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a third of Trump voters<\/a> used either an absentee or mail-in ballot. Another 30% voted in person but early. Trump\u2019s opponent, President Joe Biden, nabbed 58% of his votes by absentee and mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former RNC Chairman Michael Steele slammed Donald Trump&#8217;s campaign for promoting election integrity conspiracies. Speaking on The Weekend, Steele criticized Trump&#8217;s comments in Wisconsin where he hinted at accepting only &#8220;honest&#8221; election outcomes, labeling it a &#8220;weak&#8221; campaign strategy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2237376,"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\/05\/Michael-Steele-Trump--1024x591.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237375","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\/05\/Michael-Steele-Trump--1024x591.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237375","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\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}