RNC boss says 'Republicans would lose' if Trump left GOP
by Paul Bedard, Washington Secrets Columnist |
| November 18, 2021 10:53 AM
Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel put an end to rumors that former President Donald Trump has threatened to leave the party, calling him a “big part” of their 2022 victory plan.
“President Trump clearly has not left the party,” said McDaniel said on Thursday. "If he left the party, we would lose. If he left the party, Republicans would lose.”
The issue flashed anew because ABC’s Jonathan Karl claimed in his new book that Trump made the threat. But while the former president has endorsed some challengers to Republican incumbents he doesn’t like, he stays in the GOP lane.
“He has built our party, he has added a new base, we have become a working-class party,” McDaniel told reporters at a roundtable discussion hosted by the Christian Science Monitor Thursday morning.
She said Trump has also tried to squash rumors he wants to create his own party.
“He’s been on the field helping elect Republicans,” McDaniel said, highlighting this month’s elections.
“The president stayed in the party, this is a nonissue, and we’re going to have him in the party,” she added.
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