'Trouble in MAGA paradise': CNN's Jake Tapper says Trump wants to push out 'loyal' friend
Former President Donald Trump has his guns out for the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee, reported CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday.
Ronna McDaniel served in that leadership role since Trump took office in 2017, and by all accounts has been a consistent warrior for the former president. But her time running the GOP has been plagued with a long string of losses — and Trump is sick of it, Tapper explained.
"Trouble in MAGA paradise," he said. "RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel may not be feeling too great about job security right now as former President Trump is privately floating names to replace her. McDaniel and Trump met at Mar-a-Lago for more than two hours last night. Sources called it a cordial meeting. What's the issue here? She's been pretty loyal to Donald Trump. Well, Donald Trump and his team apparently think the RNC has a money problem. They're right about that. Some have also blamed McDaniel for GOP losses in 2022. I don't know about that. On Sunday Donald Trump said this."
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"I think she did great when she ran Michigan for me," said Trump in the interview clip. "I think she did okay initially in the RNC. I would say right now there'll probably be some changes made."
Tapper turned to panelist and Republican strategist Kristen Soltis Anderson. "Ronna McDaniel has been very loyal to Donald Trump. Which is supposed to count for a lot in his book. She's even like going out and said that Nikki Haley doesn't have a path to the nomination. But what's going on and what does this say about his hold on the party, that it looks like she's headed for the exits?"
"The thing that maybe this is a little inside baseball, but typically when you have the White House, the RNC or the DNC is kind of the unofficial political arm of whoever the president is," said Anderson. "So when she first came in as RNC chair, her job was to be loyal through and through to Donald Trump. He was the president. But once he's no longer president, then your job as the chair of the party is the party first, not any one individual, not the president, not the White House, so her role has changed while she has been RNC chair. The nature of that job — and it means that suddenly that could read as oh, have you been disloyal to me. Remember for Donald Trump there is almost no such thing as too loyal, there is always a sort of a seeking of a scapegoat or oh, you maybe have betrayed me in this way, so she is, but in a long line of people who have been kind of thrown under the Trump bus in this fashion."Watch the video below or at the link here.
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