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For: The opinion Posted 27 Jan 2023, 23:15 pm EST
The president of the Republican National Committee, Ronna McDanielwas elected to a fourth consecutive term on Friday after winning the support of roughly two-thirds of the members of the Republican National Committee (RNC) who gathered in Dana Point, California, for their winter meeting, according to CNN.
McDaniel managed to triumph in a stronger-than-expected challenge from Harmeet Dhillon, a California NCR committee member and attorney who has represented former President Donald Trump.
Voting was conducted by secret ballot, and McDaniel needed a majority of the members who voted to win.
After just one round of voting, the MP announced that McDaniel had received 111 of the 167 votes cast. Dhillon received 51 votes, with four votes cast for MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a 2020 election denier and ardent Trump supporter.
McDaniel, who as chair of the Michigan Republican Party was Trump’s choice to lead the RNC after winning the White House in 2016, she was re-elected to the position in 2019 and 2021.
McDaniel urged stability, while Dhillon, who served as one of Trump’s top legal advisers, led an insurgent campaign that stressed that change was needed after the GOP’s lackluster performance in the 2022 midterm elections, which many in that party they expected it to be a red wave election.
“I know how difficult it is to improve with a new chair. I wanted to keep that consistency,” McDaniel emphasized. “We’ve made a lot of changes in my tenure with voter registration, minority outreach. The things we have done have been historic. We need to continue that and do it in this next election. And then I’ll happily pass the deck to someone else.”