The Ronna McDaniel Mutiny

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Hello, and welcome back to Tomorrow Will Be Worse, as it undergoes its beautiful transition into The Best & The Brightest, where every Wednesday will be Tina Nguyen day, just as it is here, on TWBW.

Today, Tina brings us the story of R.N.C. chair Ronna McDaniel, who used to be Ronna Romney McDaniel (yes, Mitt’s her uncle) until Donald Trump asked her to shed her maiden name as a display of loyalty to him. And now Ronna is every Republican: she, like the G.O.P., loyally shackled herself to Trump, only to find out not that he was a bigot—that’s fine—but that he was something far, far worse: a losing horse. And now, it seems, McDaniel, like a lot of Republicans not named Trump, are having to pay for it. Last night...

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The Ronna McDaniel Mutiny

News and notes from around the MAGAverse: on the R.N.C. leadership race and the continuing fallout of Ye-gate.

TINA NGUYEN

It’s been a busy week for Ronna McDaniel, the embattled Republican National Committee chair, as she fends off various threats to her leadership. McDaniel, of course, came in for her fair share of finger pointing last month after the G.O.P.’s underwhelming midterms performance, dragged down in part by the plummeting stock of her close ally, Donald Trump. Nevertheless, she appears to have the inside track in the R.N.C. race, successfully swatting down former congressman and New York gubernatorial hopeful Lee Zeldin, who had been quietly talking to R.N.C. members and sizing up his chances for a coup. McDaniel also has the upper hand against Harmeet Dhillon, an R.N.C. member who recently declared that she would challenge her for the job. (A third challenge, from MyPillow C.E.O. Mike Lindell, is unanimously viewed as an absolute nonstarter.)

Support for McDaniel has ebbed since her election in 2017; a fourth term would make her the longest-serving party chair...

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