On Sunday November 5th, just two days before the most recent round of disappointing Republican election results, the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) Political Director, Elliott Echols, was attending a Green Bay Packers football game.
“Cheering for a different G today. #GoPackGo,” Echols wrote in a post, sitting in the stands for a day of recreation, instead of being on the ground somewhere – anywhere – to help elect Republicans. Echols, by the way, received over $300,000 from the RNC over the 2021/22 period.
On election day 2023, the GOP lost control of the Virginia statehouse; lost a referendum that has now solidified abortion until birth in Ohio; lost a gubernatorial race in right-leaning Kentucky; and lost numerous high-profile school board races in Virginia, Iowa, and Pennsylvania.
Many have rightfully pointed the finger at RNC Chairman Ronna Romney-McDaniel. Oddly, many in the RNC are pointing fingers at President Trump. The same President Trump who won 118 of 120 counties in Kentucky in 2020.
But the “experts” say it’s Trump’s fault that Mitch McConnell’s friend Daniel Cameron – who used Mitch McConnell consultants, talking points, and tactics – lost the Kentucky Governor’s race to a Democrat incumbent.
Equally, during the 2020 Georgia runoff election, when Republicans lost both U.S. Senate seats, where was Ronna Romney-McDaniel and the RNC? That’s right. Mitt Romney’s niece took it upon herself to take her entire team to Amelia Island on vacation.
In one of Rush Limbaugh’s final shows just before those 2020 runoff defeats, he called out the GOP establishment and their “tradition of losing with honor.” Rush said Trump was a threat to the loser GOP mentality, and saw Republicans throwing the Senate races before they even occurred. Rush was right.
My own husband, retired Missouri State Senator John Loudon, flew to Atlanta on runoff election day that year, observing the count in the infamous State Farm Arena – the center of controversy just two months earlier when Republican election workers were sent home for the evening while Democrats stayed and ran ballots into the counting machines all night. We know how that turned out.
Against a backdrop like that, surely Ronna and her RNC would be ready for the runoff, you would assume. But the only thing she was ready for was another loss, opting to spend runoff election day with the GOP elite at an appropriately named “retreat,” writing her statement conceding the Georgia U.S. Senate races to the Democrats.
As my husband battled to observe the vote counting, the hall was empty. Not a GOP official to be found. Only John and a Real America’s Voice reporter were on-site, demanding answers. And that’s how deep red Georgia flipped.
Undergoing expensive surgeries – including a neck lift, eyelid surgery, and a brow lift – in order to look marginally better on television, appears to have come at more than just a financial cost for the RNC.
Since McDaniel’s takeover in 2017, the party has lost to the Democrats time and again. Republicans suffered defeats in the 2018 midterms, the 2020 presidential election and midterm election, the 2022 midterm election, and now the 2023 elections. She couldn’t be doing any worse if she was an active saboteur – and questions along those lines are starting to be asked, too.
Ronna Romney-McDaniel’s RNC has professionalized losing, with every advertized “red wave” failing to materialize. The RNC desperately needs new leadership before the 2024 presidential election that will surely be a rematch between President Donald Trump and the current White House resident, Joe Biden.
If Republicans want to put their best foot forward in 2024, they will utilize the RNC Winter Meeting in Las Vegas on January 31st – February 2nd to pick a new leader. Ronna, it’s obvious, must go.
