‘Image of a Loser’: Trump 2024 Gets Endorsements From Just FOUR of 168 RNC Members Contacted By NYT
By Aidan McLaughlinJan 26th, 2023, 10:43 am
The New York Times reached out to all 168 members of the Republican National Committee to ask about Donald Trump’s run for president in 2024 — and just four offered an endorsement.
The reluctance of the RNC members to back Trump is a stunning departure from the last few years, an era in which his stranglehold on the GOP could be reasonably described as a personality cult. (To give you a sense of just how much Trump owned this iteration of the RNC: chairwoman Ronna McDaniel dropped the “Romney” from her name at the behest of the former president).
Per the Times:
The New York Times called, emailed or texted all 168 R.N.C. members. Just four offered an unabashed endorsement of Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign. Twenty said the former president should not be the party’s nominee. An additional 35 said they would like to see a big primary field or declined to state their position on Mr. Trump. The remainder did not respond to messages.
In interviews, some R.N.C. members estimated that between 120 and 140 of them preferred someone besides Mr. Trump to be their party’s presidential nominee.
“This isn’t 2016,” Kentucky national committee member Mac Brown told the Times. “People have moved on.”
“I’ve been a supporter of Donald Trump in the past,” Arkansas member Jonathan Barnett said. “I just think that we need choices this time. We’ve got to look at all of our options.”
All 168 members of the RNC are gathered in Dana Point, California for a meeting that will culminate on Friday with the election for a new leader.
Ronna McDaniel, who has served three terms as RNC chair, is seeking another two-year term. She faces a challenge from Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer and California national committee member who has mounted a threatening challenge.
The Times pinpoints several factors in the RNC’s turn away from Trump, including the committee funding the former president’s legal defense bills in the investigations into his businesses. The Times also reports that RNC members see Trump as having “taken on the image of a loser after his 2020 defeat to President Biden.”
“Trump’s subsequent refusal to accept the results and his endorsements of G.O.P. candidates in 2022 who stressed their devotion to him — and then lost seats in key battleground states including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — have some saying they are ready for a divorce,” the Times reports.
Read the full report here.
That is not promising to hear. Sounds like we have the full Monty of Rinos sitting in the RNC. No wonder no one has held Rona responsible for the poor showing of the RNC during her tenure as the head of the RNC.
Time for some serious change in the ways people think. Fed up with the uni-party mentality in the Swamp.
She treated them like royalty. They don’t want to see that go.
NYT is pitiful. They certainly aren’t statisticians and clearly unable to take into account how many people on the right side of humanity cannot take them seriously.
McDaniel is as lazy as they come. Seriously, what did she do that wasn’t for the sake of “appearance”? She’s gross.
I am so sick of these rhinos! They are part of the SWAMP!!
RNC members should stop hanging out in their echo chamber and watch some Trump rallies. Let’s see, 168 of them versus millions of Trump supporters. They’re ridiculous!
McLoserMcDaniel needs to go!! Along with every single RINO still infesting the RNC.
Mitt, aka “Mittens” Romney, well known Liar, Fake, Fraud, Phony, who does whatever he wants to because he has accumulated great wealth, making him Feel as if He Deserves to be Treated like Royalty, because He is Super Importnat…. IS RONNA ROMNEY MC DANIELS REAL FATHER! So, WHAT DOES ANYONE EXPECT from DADDY”S :LITTLE GIRL??? Spoiled to the point of disgust, FAT, LAZY, SELF-IMPORTANT and SEPARATED from the American People BY CHOICE!
How does she handle mistakes and other important issues with her control over the Republican Party MONEY COLLECTIONS? SHE IGNORES ALL COMPLAINTS, NEVER CONTACTS ANYONE WHO REACHES OUT TO HER FOR HELP, AND JUST KEEPS GOING, AND DECIDES TO STOP GIVING PRESIDENT TRUMP HIS SHARE OF THE DONATIONS THAT LOYAL TRUMPERS HAVE SENT IN FOR HIM, TO OTHER CANDIDATES THAT SHE, RONNA, HAS DEEEMED MORE DESERVING.
THIS WOMAN, NOW IN CHARGE OF A MASSIVE FRAUD, SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED BY A THIRD PARTY, NOT HER OWN FAMILY. ARRESTED AND JAILED. WHO GAVE HER THIS JOB IN THE FIRST PLACE? PRESIDENT TRUMP. WHERE’S HER LOYALTY AND RESPECT? HIDING UNDER ALL THOSE EMPTY PIZZA BOXES MAYBE.
Am I angry about the TERRIBLE JOB she id doing? ABSOLUTELY! YOU BET I AM! I reached out to her for wrongs done, and got the Total Ignore Routine. My Donations went to some of her “OTHER FRIENDS RUNNING FOR OTHER OFFICES”. RONNA DECIDED SHE COULD DO THIS. NO ONE ELSE.
Losses are tied to the voting machines and the crooked people who run and control them. When the votes are tallied and reported to the MSM who report them to the public and we are to believe the results? The ballots are counted and scanned by Machines and boxed and put somewhere for 25 months? The RINO’s believe the Dem’s and are part of the SYSTEM to defraud America.