Donald Trump's taking control of the Republican National Committee is not going over well with Republican leadership at the state level who fear they will be left out in the cold with the RNC becoming a defacto arm of his re-election bid.
According to former RNC chair Michael Steele, the only thing stopping a revolt at the state level is the fear of Trump's hardcore MAGA loyalists.
During an explanation of how the RNC works on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Steele first added the caveat that when he took over the committee he also fired everyone but it also wasn't a mere seven months before a crucial election.
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Having said that, he noted that the RNC's usual function is to work on the eight key battleground states that can swing an election.
Now, he stated, help may not be on the way because the RNC may be funneling scarce cash to pay for the former president's myriad legal problems.
He then added that he was hearing grumbling from his former associates heading up their respective state Republican parties.
"I have talked to a number of former and current state party chairs and they are not happy," he told his co-hosts. "They will put on the face because they don't want to get the blowback from the MAGA nuts inside the party. But the reality is that they are not happy."
"They know what this means," he continued. "People that have been in the process of building up and putting in place players who are going to actually execute on a plan, 'Oh, I guess there is one,' but Lara Trump is now in charge."
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