Tag Archives: RNC

The Week reports: The Republican Party’s official Twitter feed celebrated Black History Month on Sunday by touting the “record number of Black Republicans running for office and winning at all levels.” That number was “over 40,” and those races were “GOP primaries for local and federal office.” This tweet presumably was meant to showcase the GOP’s inroads with Black voters, …

Mediaite reports: The chair of the Republican National Committee called out the New York Times on Friday after the publication quoted her organization accurately. McDaniel herself used the language in a statement. “Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger crossed a line,” she said. “They chose to join Nancy Pelosi in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political …

The Washington Post reports: In an extraordinary rebuke, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution condemning Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who voted to impeach former president Donald Trump after the deadly insurrection. The resolution said that the behavior of Cheney and Kinzinger “has been destructive to the institution of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republican …

Via press release from Cheney’s campaign: Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) issued the following statement in response to the Republican National Committee’s anticipated vote to censure her. “The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of …

The Washington Post reports: A prominent Trump ally is pushing the Republican Party to formally expel Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger at the party’s annual meeting this week in Salt Lake City, setting up a public showdown over the party’s direction. David Bossie, a two-time Trump campaign adviser who serves as a national committeeman from Maryland, submitted a resolution …

The Hill reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) pulled in $158.6 million in 2021, narrowly edging out the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) fundraising haul for the year. The DNC and its joint fundraising arm announced earlier on Monday that they had raised $10.7 million in December, bringing the committee’s annual total to more than $157 million. The DNC still ended …

“The RNC today did something that I’ve been saying they should have done a long time ago, and that is they are — you know, they’ve been conned by this presidential debate commission. “Now the RNC has finally come to their senses, they’ve pulled the plug on any debate participation by a candidate that they support. “And further, they are …

The New York Times reports: The Republican National Committee is preparing to change its rules to require presidential candidates seeking the party’s nomination to sign a pledge to not participate in any debates sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates. Republican committee officials alerted the debate commission to their plans in a letter sent on Thursday, a copy of which …

Fox News reports: The Republican National Committee (RNC) is suing New York City Mayor Eric Adams over the city law allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. The RNC announced the lawsuit on Monday, with chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeting out the organization’s official statement. “American elections should be decided by American citizens,” McDaniel said in the release. “If Democrats can …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members and others briefed on the decision. The party’s executive committee overwhelmingly approved the payments at a meeting this summer …

Mediaite reports: Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel appeared on Newsmax on Wednesday and parroted the baseless claim that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) had bought a mansion in Florida. “I heard she’s looking for houses in Florida,” McDaniel said. “So maybe Ron DeSantis, you know, is a better governor than Newsom. But she’s looking for houses in Florida.” McDaniel …

The New York Times reports: A new favorite tactic of the Republican National Committee has been making it appear as if supporters have urgent and overdue bills. “WARNING: Payment Incomplete” has been the sender line of more than 15 party emails since August, including one just before Thanksgiving. (A warning this week was about membership status as “Trump Social Media …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican National Committee is pushing back against a state party leader’s call for Ronna McDaniel to resign as RNC chairwoman over her outreach to the LGBTQ community. In a statement to The Washington Post, RNC spokesperson Danielle Alvarez said Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman John Bennett is “lying” about the steps the national party plans to …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican National Committee is paying some personal legal bills for former president Donald Trump, spending party funds to pay a lawyer representing Trump in investigations into his financial practices in New York, a party spokeswoman said Monday. In October, the RNC made two payments totaling $121,670 to the law firm of Ronald Fischetti, a veteran …

Via email from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Either the RNC didn’t expect the grassroots fury over their LGBT coalition — or they thought they could ignore it. Whatever their thinking, the last several days have been a rude awakening for the GOP’s fundraising arm. Calls and emails have been streaming into RNC headquarters and state offices, all demanding answers …

Metro Weekly reports: Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel has apologized in an email to the committee’s 168 members, saying she should have done a better job communicating about and clarifying the aims of a new outreach initiative aimed at gay voters. McDaniel’s email was sent a few hours after she hosted a conference call with RNC members intended …

Fox News reports: The Republican National Committee announced its first ever “RNC Pride Coalition” over the weekend, partnering with the Log Cabin Republicans to invest and mobilize LGBTQ communities ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. The announcement came during the Log Cabin Republicans’ “Spirit of Lincoln Gala,” which took place Saturday night at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, and attracted …

From the Republican National Committee: Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel released the following statement on the Biden administration’s forced vaccine mandate. “Joe Biden failed to shut down the virus as he promised – he couldn’t do his job, so now he wants you to lose yours. This mandate is yet another attack on frontline workers, first responders, …

The Washington Examiner reports: The Republican National Committee plans to sue the federal government over President Joe Biden’s newly announced vaccine mandates for federal employees and millions of private-sector workers. “Joe Biden told Americans when he was elected that he would not impose vaccine mandates. He lied,” RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement Thursday evening. “Now small businesses, …

The Week reports: The Republican National Committee has removed a page from the 2020 campaign that says “Biden has had a history of pushing for endless wars” while “Trump has continued to take the lead in peace talks as he signed a historic peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan, which would end America’s longest war.” Trump’s secretary of state, …