Last Updated on November 9, 2023
Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel claimed that Virginia Republican governor Glenn Youngkin told the RNC that his team did not need help from the RNC in the recent legislative and local elections, so the RNC did not engage with the Virginia Republican losses on Tuesday. Ronna Romney McDaniel made these claims in the Spin Room following the GOP presidential debate in Miami, Florida. (WATCH THE STUNNING VIDEO AT THE 48:48 MARK in Reporter Larry O’Connor’s Spin Room stream on X RIGHT HERE).
Virginia Republicans failed to capture the state senate and they also lost the House of Delegates in a staggering set of losses in the Commonwealth local elections on Tuesday. Ronna McDaniel was previously known as Ronna Romney because she is Utah senator Mitt Romney’s niece.
Larry O’Connor, a host on WMAL Radio in Washington, D.C., questioned Ronna McDaniel in the Spin Room for his Townhall stream. O’Connor asked Ronna about the Virginia losses.
“You know the RNC’s not a state committee. We’re a federal committee. Right? Your candidates can take unlimited state dollars and your governor can take unlimited state dollars and he actually said, ‘We don’t need you guys here,'” Ronna McDaniel said, referring to Virginia Republican governor Glenn Youngkin.
Larry O’Connor did an excellent reporting job. O’Connor followed up with: “I just want to clarify one quick thing, though. The RNC had no involvement in these elections in Virginia, per Governor Youngkin’s request?”
“We were told in the summer they didn’t need us, that they had all the money and they were good. So, that was a conversation,” Ronna McDaniel said.
Ronna McDaniel also complained about Virginia Republicans not standing up enough to push back against ads targeting them on the issue of abortion.
O’Connor asked Ronna for her take on presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s call for Ronna to resign from the chairwomanship of the Republican National Committee.
“Listen, I’m going to focus on Joe Biden…This Republican-on-Republican vitriol and in-fighting is not good for our party. I’m not running for president. I’m here trying to win for our party. He just lost a vote. He lost my son’s vote, I’ll tell you that much. But I will say this: The voters don’t want to see this,” Ronna McDaniel complained.
