RNC trashed for stacking the deck against any candidate not named Donald Trump
During an appearance on CNN on Thursday morning, conservative commentator Margaret Hoover accused the Republican National Committee of becoming a "wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc."
What drew the ire of the PBS host were the requirements set forth by the RNC for participation in the first 2024 GOP presidential candidates' debate which she maintained will hand the nomination to Donald Trump.
Speaking with co-hosts Poppy Harlow and Victor Blackwell, Hoover expressed exasperation with the headlong rush to anoint the twice-indicted ex-president as the nominee.
Asked about every candidate being required to pledge to support the eventual nominee, she replied, "I think it's terrible. I think you don't say 'We don't support Donald Trump because he is a loser,' because he is losing until he's winning. He was a loser when he came down the escalator [in 2016] and then he started winning and everyone loved him. You have to make a moral argument that this man cares more about himself and his own narcissism than the Constitution of the United States, than our national security secrets. "
Claiming the other candidates need to make the "moral argument" to stop the former president, she turned to other RNC rules for debate participation. She continued that a candidate "... has to have 40,000 individual donors from 20 different states. He has to have 1 percent in polling, by the way, from the early primary states with polls that have 800 self-identified Republican GOP voters in their sample."
"The RNC has created incredibly difficult standards," she argued. "The pledge is the least of it. Incredibly difficult standards for any candidate to reach the threshold to get on the stage. The pledge, forget it about it!"
"Chris Christie will sign the pledge and said he will take it just as seriously as Trump did in 2016," she sarcastically added. "So the pledge isn't the hard part. The hard part is the RNC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump, Inc. is making it impossible for anyone to get on stage in a fair way."
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