- Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told former President Donald Trump she’d resign at the end of the month
- The New York Times reported that news after several prominent voices in MAGA world called on McDaniel to step down
- ‘Nothing has changed. This will be decided after South Carolina,’ RNC spokesperson Kieth Schipper told DailyMail.com pushing back on the report
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told former President Donald Trump she’ll resign at the end of the month after facing multiple calls to step down.
The New York Times reported Tuesday on McDaniel’s plans, with a spokesperson for the RNC pushing back and suggesting a final decision had yet to be made.
‘Nothing has changed. This will be decided after South Carolina,’ RNC spokesperson Kieth Schipper told DailyMail.com.
South Carolina is holding a February 24 primary, which Trump hopes to win with such a large margin that it pushes his final rival, former South Carolina governor and U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley out of the race.
Trump wants to promote the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, Michael Whatley, to take McDaniel’s place, sources told The Times.
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel told former President Donald Trump she’ll resign at the end of the month after facing multiple calls to step down
Trump appeared to suggest on his Truth Social account on Tuesday that he will be deciding the future of the RNC after the South Carolina primary February 24.
‘Ronna is now Head of the RNC, and I’ll be making a decision the day after the South Carolina Primary as to my recommendations for RNC Growth,’ he buried in a post boasting of his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire and previewing his visit to Nevada amid the primary and caucuses this week.
A number of MAGA-aligned Republicans, have called on McDaniel to call it quits over the last several months, including suggestions made by Trump in interviews and social media posts.
Turning Point USA founder and CEO Charlie Kirk told DailyMail.com last Monday in Las Vegas that he wanted to see Donald Trump Jr., Lara Trump or failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy take over the party.
‘I think Vivek would be great. Or Don Jr. or Lara Trump,’ Kirk said. ‘I mean if the Trump campaign and the RNC merge, which they do at the convention, why wouldn’t you have the RNC chair be Don Jr.? He works his tail off, he raises a ton of money. He’s super intuitive.’
‘Do you think he would want to do that?’ DailyMail.com asked Kirk.
‘No, that’s why he’d be great,’ he insisted. ‘But Lara Trump would be a good one too. She’s really smart, great on TV. Vivek would do a good job.’
‘So I think Vivek, Don Jr. or Lara Trump,’ he repeated. ‘I think you’ve got to go outside the committee. That’s my personal opinion. You’ve got to go outside this whole country club. You’ve got to get different thinking, you’ve got to mix it up a bit.’
Kirk said if McDaniel ‘goes away, then great.’
‘We tried to get a different chair last January – we were unsuccessful,’ Kirk said. ‘And we were really displeased in the last couple of months with how the RNC has handled multiple things.’
![Trump once had a close relationship with Chairwoman McDaniel, but it soured after 2020 and the 2022 midterm elections as MAGA-aligned Republicans started to complain that she couldn't deliver wins](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/02/07/03/80946439-13054259-image-a-15_1707275869466.jpg)
Trump once had a close relationship with Chairwoman McDaniel, but it soured after 2020 and the 2022 midterm elections as MAGA-aligned Republicans started to complain that she couldn’t deliver wins
Kirk wants to see the ‘country club’ of the RNC break up and get new blood into leadership. And he thinks that should come from pro-Trump world since the campaign and RNC will merge at the time of the convention over the summer.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) responded to the report with a statement claiming the McDaniel is just ‘the latest American to lose their job under Donald Trump.’
DNC Spokesman Alex Floyd wrote in a statement that Trump is ‘pushing to replace his MAGA loyalist with an election denying conspiracy theorist.’
At Kirk’s Turning Point conference last week, Steve Bannon delivered remarks to a crowd that included some RNC committee members where he denounced the chairwoman.
‘Trump is the only one who not just stood up for this country, he stood up for the citizens of this country – and particularly, he stood up for the working class in this country,’ Bannon said. ‘And that’s why they hate him. And that’s why the RNC hates him. Because all they do is respond to the fat cat donors and the Murdochs.’
In a call and response, Bannon asked: ‘Does Ronna McDaniel – should she resign immediately?’ The crowd replied with a resounding: ‘Yes!’
‘Are we going to support anything the RNC does until she is gone?’ he followed-up, with the crowd replying with, ‘No!.’
Ramaswamy said during the third RNC-run presidential primary debate in Miami, Florida in early November that he wanted to see McDaniel’s resign.
He called the GOP a ‘party of losers’ and demanded the RNC chairwoman ‘come on stage tonight’ and step down from her position.