Ronna McDaniel decides she’s done doing her job until Trump’s coronation
Tiana Lowe Doescher
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Voters have another six weeks before the Iowa caucuses start the Republican primary season, and despite the national polling dominance of former President Donald Trump, two major candidates are heading into the holidays with momentum. While Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has languished in the polls, he has secured the potential game-changing endorsements of Gov. Kim Reynolds (R-IA) and evangelical kingmaker Bob Vander Plaats. Meanwhile, Nikki Haley has soared to second place in New Hampshire and South Carolina while nipping at the Florida governor’s heels in the Hawkeye State. Objective observers can admit that although Trump remains the favorite, the primary isn’t over until at least the first three states sing.
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But, of course, the Republican National Committee is no objective observer. Under the tutelage of Trump’s hired hand, Ronna Romney McDaniel, the RNC has decided it no longer has to hide the ball. The party, keen to reinforce its own irrelevance, has decided that Wednesday’s fourth debate will be the final one organized by the RNC.
“We have held four successful debates across the country with the most conservative partners in the history of a Republican primary. We have no RNC debates scheduled in January and any debates currently scheduled are not affiliated with the RNC,” the RNC said in a statement. “It is now time for Republican primary voters to decide who will be our next President and candidates are free to use any forum or format to communicate to voters as they see fit.”
Both CNN and ABC News have already filled the void left by the party, meaning that the candidates will have to pray the often adversarial corporate media are operating in good faith. If anything, the top four candidates (sans Trump) — Haley, DeSantis, billionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie — will be obliged to participate in the debate, located in Iowa and New Hampshire, as the RNC failed to host any of their four debates in the states that pride themselves on casting their primary choices first in the nation.
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McDaniel owes her entire career to two men. One gifted her the genetic lottery of the Romney moniker, and she rewarded him by literally erasing him from her name at the behest of the second, Trump. To Trump, she has sworn not just personal fealty but the fealty of a party that has become, to quote the prescient Ramaswamy, “a party of losers.” A small price to pay for McDaniel, as in exchange for her attempt to coronate Trump, she’s gotten the sort of job security only the teachers unions can dream of.