Republican “leadership” on full display.
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel struggled to defend her record following a string of election losses in Virginia during a Fox News interview on Friday.
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramswamy blasted McDaniel’s leadership during the latest Republican primary debate on Wednesday following the GOP losses in Virginia and called on her to resign.
? BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy destroys Ronna Romney McDaniel, demand she come on stage and RESIGN, says Joe Rogan and Elon Musk should be hosting the debate instead of hacks like Kristen Welker who pushed the Russian Collusion Hoax ? pic.twitter.com/hxcBxGrdPN
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 9, 2023
McDaniel appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” where she was grilled by host Laura Ingraham over Tuesday’s poor election results.
“Vivek and others are saying that under your leadership, Republicans have lost election after election, and positing the question, why should you retain your job given the track record of the party under your leadership?” Ingraham asked. “And to that, what do you say?”
?RNC TRAIN WRECK ALERT?
RNC Chair Ronna McRomney continues her humiliating losing streak by having a hysterical MELTDOWN LIVE On-Air on Fox News when simply asked why she should keep her RNC job.
Words cannot describe how embarrassing this clip is.
What did I just watch?
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 11, 2023
McDaniel offered a long-winded response about how she was going “continue to focus on Joe Biden and Democrats” before Ingraham interrupted her.
“All that all that you just said, I couldn’t agree with more,” Ingraham said. “I know you believe in accountability. You talk about it all the time.”
McDaniel then apologized for taking “too long” to respond before defending her record, claiming she couldn’t prevent Republicans from being outspent by Democrats by $8 million.
“Listen, when Vivek didn’t vote in 2016, I was leading Michigan to the first [Republican presidential election] win in history in 30 years,” she said. “In 2018, we defied the odds. We got three senators, people like Josh Hawley that allowed President Trump to build the largest conservative majority on the Supreme Court. In 2022, the RNC, which is a turnout machine, right? We’re not the messengers. We don’t create the messages for the campaigns. Those are the consultants who get very well paid–”
At that point Ingraham interrupted again to point out that the RNC wasn’t there to help Virginia candidates. The rest of the interview spiraled for McDaniel:
INGRAHAM: Well one, of the things that happened was, I think in Virginia, people were wondering where the money was, whether they were gonna get some help from the RNC. And I know at one point you said that you were not asked for money in Virginia.
But a source, a Republican source familiar with the Youngkin team in Virginia told the Angle late tonight that, “That’s false and their” – meaning your – “story keeps changing. Anyone who thinks Virginia Republicans wouldn’t want to help when we knew we’d be outspent isn’t being serious.”
You know, Ronna, they were $8 million.
MCDANIEL: Glenn Youngkin did a phenomenal job and he raised a lot of money. A lot of people don’t understand fundraising. I can’t raise state dollars. I don’t get unlimited convention and state dollars.
INGRAHAM: Yeah.
MCDANIEL: And these were state house and state senate races.
INGRAHAM: I get it.
MCDANIEL: So, I mean, come on. Can you just–
INGRAHAM: All right.
MCDANIEL: These are people who come after me all the time. They’re on Twitter. They’re all the time. And let’s see their results. What did they do in Virginia? How much money did they give?”
INGRAHAM: Yup.
Ramaswamy mocked McDaniel’s interview on Friday, claiming she was “self-immolating” and doubled down on his call for her to resign.
“Yesterday she lied & said I voted for Obama. Today she’s just self-immolating. Ronna, it’s time to go. Get out,” he wrote on X.
Yesterday she lied & said I voted for Obama. Today she’s just self-immolating.
Ronna, it’s time to go. Get out. https://t.co/XFQB5JxgGW
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 11, 2023