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Happy Friday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Hortense couldn’t live down the embarrassment of accidentally serving a batch of Metamucil mimosas the last time she hosted the cul-de-sac brunch.
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By the end of today — maybe by the time you read this — we will know if the Republican National Committee (RNC) wants to get back to the business of winning elections or if it wants to leg hump the status quo because that’s what makes the D.C. types comfortable.
There has been a lot of chatter about Ronna McDaniel having her re-election locked up. She’s facing formidable challenges from Harmeet Dhillon and — I kid you not — MyPillow Mike Lindell. Old Guard Republicans inside the Beltway redefine “entrenched,” so it wouldn’t be at all surprising to see McDaniel getting another term to complete her mission of running the RNC into the ground and the Republican Party into permanent minority party status.
It’s always difficult to tell how these RNC votes will go. The College of Cardinals is more transparent when they gather for a papal conclave.
One doesn’t have to have one’s ear to the ground for very long, however, to glean that very few people outside of Washington want McDaniel to return. If the woman had any sense of shame or decency, she would have voluntarily stepped down after last November’s Red Trickle debacle.
But she’s a Romney, so she feels entitled.
Catherine wrote yesterday about a poll that expresses just how strong the anti-McDaniel sentiment is among the voters:
Fewer than one in five Republican voters want Ronna McDaniel to be Republican National Committee (RNC) chair again, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, and of the three candidates — McDaniel, attorney Harmeet Dhillon, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell — Lindell surpassed Dhillon by a 10-point margin. Republican voters want radical change in their party, and this poll shows that they want an outsider with a track record of defying the establishment to enact that change.
Rasmussen found in its survey of Republican voters that 30% support Mike Lindell for RNC chair, 20% support Harmeet Dhillon, and only 15% support Ronna McDaniel. There is definitely indecision among Republicans too, though, because 15% don’t support any of the three candidates and 21% are undecided.
Full disclosure: I think that Mike Lindell is certifiably insane and would be an awful choice. He has publicly questioned whether Ron DeSantis actually won Miami-Dade County last November. DeSantis took Florida from being an unpredictable swing state to a solid Republican electoral vote haul for 2024 and we’re going to put a guy in charge of the RNC who wants to undermine that?
The Republicans have done dumber things, so I won’t be shocked if it happens.
I know that a lot of the Trump faithful will be mad that I don’t like Lindell. Just because I like Trump doesn’t mean I have to like all of his supporters. I’m a voter, not a cultist.
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I swear that this isn’t merely residual bitterness about having purchased a MyPillow and finding it to be so uncomfortable that I had to get a new pillow three days later.
It appears that DeSantis is leaning towards Dhillon, according to my colleague Jennifer Oliver O’Connell at RedState. It’s obviously no surprise that he isn’t a Lindell fan, but he’s also not a McDaniel fan.
The 2024 election cycle is going to be one of the most important ever for both the Republican Party and the United States of America. The Democrats have the country speeding down the road to socialist perdition. The Republicans need to find a way to first slow them down, then stop them. If the opportunity to do that in 2024 is blown, they may never have a shot at it again.
They’ll be lolling about with the Libertarian Party, unable to do much more than stomp their feet and shake their fists at clouds.
From a gulag.
This RNC election will give us a perfect indication of where the party’s priorities are.
One thing is certain: if Ronna McDaniel is re-elected, you should get comfortable saying, “President Harris.”
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