Ronna McDaniel, who chairs the Republican National Committee (RNC), firmly believes 2024 GOP presidential contenders should be required “to sign a pledge to back the party’s ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates.”
“I think it’s kind of a no-brainer, right?” she said. McDaniel added she would support Trump if he were the nominee because “I think you support the voters” and do “right by the American people” (see story here).
She wasn’t supporting the voters or doing right by the American people when she supported Trump’s efforts to set aside the 2020 election.
According to Wikipedia (here), “After Joe Biden won the 2020 election, McDaniel claimed without evidence that there was large-scale electoral fraud and voter fraud, and had the RNC promote falsehoods and conspiracy theories about the election.” She also supported a resolution characterizing the Capitol riot as “legitimate political discourse.”
Two years later, on Sunday, November 6, 2022, she “criticized President Biden’s [speech] about threats to democracy as out of touch with the most pressing issues facing voters, a miscalculation [she] argued that will boost the GOP on Tuesday,” and asserted, “This is not what the American people are caring about right now” (see story here). Two days later, her party was crushed at the polls. For many of those voters democracy was the top issue.
She tried to deflect the conversation away from her party’s election deniers (who include her) by calling Democrats “inflation deniers … crime deniers … education deniers.” I guess that’s what you expect a Republican spokesperson to say, but it’s partisan hackery.
Everything McDaniel says should be viewed in that perspective. Until she says her party’s candidates should adhere to the Pledge of Allegiance, which is an issue because her party and its candidates mostly don’t, she’s a hack.
Related story: McDaniel’s promises that Republicans will be on their good behavior in 2024 are “delusional,” Yahoo News says (read story here).