Social media lights up with calls to oust Ronna McDaniel as RNC chairwoman as GOP losing streaks pile up since 2018
Saddled with a historically unpopular president and American anger over crime and inflation, Democrats still managed somehow to win the marquee races of the 2023 election season on the strength of abortion messaging, early turnout and ad spending blitzes.
The Republicans’ latest disappointing election performance –- from Glenn Youngkin’s failed bid to capture control of the Virginia legislature to Daniel Cameron’s loss of the gubernatorial mansion in deep-red Kentucky — left many on social media Tuesday night calling for GOP Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to be ousted for a losing streak that stretches back to 2018 and has exposed the Republican National Committee’s weaknesses on messaging and get-out-the-vote operations.
“What, exactly, does Ronna McDaniel do, besides lose?” longtime conservative TV host, columnist and former Trump administration official Monica Crowley asked on X, the social platform previously known as Twitter. “The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately.”
What, exactly, does Ronna McDaniel do, besides lose?
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) November 8, 2023
The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN.
Effective immediately.
Lawyer Rogan O’Handley, one of the more influential young conservatives on social media who uses the handle “DC Draino,” offered a similar sentiment. “Tonight is yet another reason Ronna Romney McDaniel should resign in disgrace She does nothing except help the GOP lose,” he wrote on his social media.
Tonight is yet another reason Ronna Romney McDaniel should resign in disgrace
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) November 8, 2023
She does nothing except help the GOP lose
Even some candidates who might need McDaniel’s support to win in 2024 were on the war path.
“FIRE RINO RONNA MCDANIEL NOW!” tweeted Army veteran and Florida congressional candidate Anthony Sabatini. He added for emphasis: “Ronna McDaniel will go down as the worst RNC Chair in history.”
FIRE RINO RONNA MCDANIEL NOW!
— Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) November 8, 2023
Whether McDaniel survives her full term will depend in large part on whether Donald Trump, leading the 2024 GOP presidential race handily in the polls, turns on her.
Trump in January supported McDaniel over conservative lawyer Harmeet Dhillon for a third term as RNC chair even after a disappointing 2022 election in which the GOP underperformed and failed to capture the U.S. Senate and barely won the U.S. House despite polls showing Republicans with a huge before-election advantage.
By John Solomon
