RNC Ronna McDaniel Announces Resignation

Ronna McDaniel, current chairwoman of the Republican National Committee leader, announced her resignation on this coming March on Monday, February 26th.

Good Morning X-Land.
So long Ronna. 👏👏👏
Ronna McDaniel will step down on March 8 just days after Super Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/78LF4zTQXA

— SweetPeaBelle (@SweetPeaBell326) February 26, 2024

NBC News has more on the reasoning behind Ronna McDaniel’s decision:

McDaniel’s decision followed Saturday’s South Carolina primary and came less than two weeks after Trump endorsed North Carolina GOP chairman Michael Whatley to be the next chairman of the RNC, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to be co-chair and top campaign aide Chris LaCivita to be the party’s chief operating officer.

“I have decided to step aside at our Spring Training on March 8 in Houston to allow our nominee to select a Chair of their choosing,” she added. “The RNC has historically undergone change once we have a nominee and it has always been my intention to honor that tradition.”

McDaniel was first nominated by President Trump after he was elected to office back in 2016. Since then, McDaniel won the position in 2019, 2021, and 2023.

Despite the ease at which she won the previous election, there has been some pushback from far-right supporters.

CNN Politics has more on President Trump’s opinion of McDaniel:

But recently, Trump’s view of McDaniel has soured. Trump and his team have been disappointed with the RNC’s finances as the committee is currently experiencing one of its most anemic years of fundraising in the last decade. The former president has also felt that the RNC under McDaniel’s leadership could and should have done more to fight for his candidacy in the 2020 election, including retaining better lawyers to push the former president’s false claims of rampant voter fraud.

McDaniel leaves the RNC as just the second woman chair and the longest in its history for over a century.

Prior to working in the RNC, McDaniel worked as Michigan’s Republican Party chair.

Detroit Free Press has more on McDaniel’s tenure in the RNC:

As RNC chairwoman, she was widely considered popular and a prodigious fundraiser, and during her tenure, the party raised more than $1.6 billion, according to a quick scan of Federal Election Commission records.

McDaniel, according to the U.S. House committee that investigated efforts to overturn the election, took part in putting together slates of fake electors, including in Michigan, that certified falsely that Trump won the balloting (in Michigan he lost by more than 154,000 votes) but she also told the committee she did so believing it was in support of the campaign in the event of its winning litigation contesting the results, which it did not, rather than those slates of fake electors being sent to Washington as if they were genuine.

Many people have taken to X to voice their opinions of McDaniel’s time in the RNC:

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has finally stepped down. A great choice, she did not help the Republican Party win! pic.twitter.com/e6niPlBG4m

— Donald J. Trump (Parody) (@realDonParody) February 26, 2024

Ronna Romney McDaniel is no longer the Chair of the RNC.

GOOD BYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE.

— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) February 25, 2024

Thank God, she was useless to our MAGA, Save America 🇺🇸

— Edjwel8 (@edjwel8) February 25, 2024