Ronna McDaniel has been reelected the chair of the Republican National Committee. At the winter meeting of the party leadership in Dana Point, California, an election was held to determine whether she would continue as chair, which she has been since 2017.
McDaniel is a political strategist who was chair of the Michigan Republican Party from 2015 to 2017 before being elected chair of the Republican National Committee.
Of the 167 votes cast, McDaniel received 111 votes, Harmeet Dhillon received 51, Mike Lindell got 4, and Lee Zeldin received one vote.
After the vote was final, McDaniel told reporters that this would be her last term.
Jaime Harrison, Chair of the Democratic National Committee, issued his congratulatory sideswipe on Twitter, saying, “Congratulations to @GOPChairwoman and Democratic Party campaigns/candidates across the country!!! #Chair4Life #GOPClownShowContinues “
It was one of the party’s more watched races for chair in many years, with some grassroots members of the party calling for new leadership after the party could not win the Senate away from Democrats in 2022 and after barely having a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, in spite of controversies that surround many Democrat candidates.
McDaniel was last elected in 2021. McDaniel visited Alaska in 2022 to speak at the Republican Party’s meeting in Fairbanks. She joined the Must Read Alaska Show during her visit.
