Politics is a blood sport. When Election Day results are tallied, there is no second place.
Since assuming the helm of the Republican National Committee (RNC) in 2017, the GOP under Ronna McDaniel lost the House in 2018, the presidency in 2020, the Senate in 2022, and everywhere but Mississippi and Louisiana in 2023's limited slate of off-year elections.
If McDaniel were the manager of, say, a Major League Baseball team, she would be fired the day a successive losing season concluded. You don't win, you're out. That's the way it goes.
Instead, since former President Donald Trump appointed her RNC chair, McDaniel's salary has tripled, from $122,582 to $410,640 in 2020 to $358,431 in the first 11 months of 2022, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
To many, that doesn't make sense.
In the wake of Nov. 7's elections that saw Democrats capture both Virginia General Assembly chambers, ruby-red Kentucky voters re-elect Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear, and scarlet-red Ohio voters overwhelmingly adopt a reproductive rights measure and make the Buckeye State the 24th nationwide to legalize adult recreational marijuana, frustrated Republicans are calling for McDaniel's ouster.
With less than 60 days before the Iowa Caucuses officially kick off a 2024 election cycle that began the day after 2022's midterms concluded, if Republicans want "new blood"—as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said months ago—they need that transfusion soon.
Like now.
The Virginia elections may have hurt the most. All 140 seats in the purple commonwealth's General Assembly were on the ballot. Among top campaign issues was a 15-week abortion ban that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin wanted the General Assembly to adopt in 2024. He aggressively stumped, and fund-raised, for GOP candidates across the state.
When Nov. 7 began, the GOP held a 52–48 House majority and Democrats had a 22–18 Senate advantage.
When Nov. 7 ended, Democrats had retained the Senate and taken the House.
Even before Nov. 7, as The Epoch Times' Lawrence Wilson, Samantha Flom, Terri Wu, and Jeff Louderback reported in their post-election wrap, Republicans were complaining the RNC was idling on the sidelines while national Democratic groups were pumping millions into their Virginia candidates' campaigns.
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