Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel responded Thursday to Vivek Ramaswamy after he asked her to resign from her position during last night’s debate.
“It is at 4%. He needs a headline,” McDaniel told Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney about the biotech entrepreneur.
Ramaswamy, 38, spent part of his opening speech lashing out at McDaniel for his management of the RNC after another round of disappointing election results, calling the Republican Party a “party of losers.”
“Ronna, if you want to go on stage tonight, you need to look Republican voters in the eye and tell them you’re quitting. I will give you my… I will give you my time,” she said at one point.
“The RNC does not participate in state elections, we are a federal committee. So we weren’t involved in those races on Tuesday,” McDaniel told Varney. “I know Vivek is a little newer to the party (he voted for Obama), so it’s possible he doesn’t know.”
Ramaswamy has claimed that he did not vote in any presidential election between 2008 and 2016: he voted for Libertarian Michael Badnarik in 2004 and for former President Donald Trump in 2020.
Ronna McDaniel carefully responded to Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack, highlighting her record of success as chairwoman of the Michigan Republicans.AP
The Ohio native averages 4.7% support in the RealClearPolitics aggregate, putting him fourth among his 2024 Republican peers.
McDaniel also blamed the Republican’s lackluster performance on struggles to get messages across on the abortion issue.
“We don’t send messages, that’s a fact. We do not do it. And our candidates have lost their message on abortion,” he told FBN.
Vivek Ramaswamy called on McDaniel to resign during Wednesday’s debate. AFP via Getty Images
After Ramaswamy’s swipe at McDaniel, rumors claimed that the Republican National Committee chairman had chosen words for the candidate.
Timcast.com reported that McDaniel had become enraged because Ramaswamy was “a jerk. “Totally stupid.”
“He is desperate because he is doing poorly in the polls,” he supposedly added. “He won’t get a cent from us.”
A Republican National Committee spokesman denied on Thursday that McDaniel had made such a comment.
In response, Ramaswamy’s campaign reiterated to the Post that “Ronna Romney should resign,” referring to the Republican National Committee chairwoman by her maiden name.
The head of the RNC has presided over the party’s national apparatus since 2017.Getty Images
Ramaswamy himself tweeted: “Ronna should resign. This should not be controversial. Instead, she supposedly said the RNC won’t give me ‘a dime’ of funding, proving my point about the RNC being corrupt. And this morning he flat out lies when he says I voted for Obama. Take a swing and miss, but keep trying.”
McDaniel also denied confronting Ramaswamy about his outburst, contrary to what some photos on social media appeared to show.
“I have heard this report. I didn’t talk to Vivek. “I haven’t spoken to him since those comments,” she told Varney.
The five Republican presidential candidates faced off on stage during the third Republican debate.REUTERS
Ramaswamy also complained about the RNC choosing to partner with NBC News for the third debate, as well as the choice of “NBC Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt and “Meet The Press” moderator Kristen Welker as co-moderators with the Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. .
“Think about who is moderating this debate,” he said at one point. “This should be Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. We would have 10 times the audience, we would ask questions that really interest Republican Party primary voters, and we would attract more people to our party.”
“I support our choice to go with a non-conservative media outlet. “I think NBC did a great job.” McDaniel said CNN on Tuesday night. “Forty-two percent of our country is independent. We are not going to win elections if we sit in the echo chamber[s].”
“If you can’t take a tough question, then you probably shouldn’t run for president,” he added.
Josh Christenson contributed to this report.
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