Grassroots activists aired their grievances at Republican National Committee leadership at a gathering ahead of the organization's conference in Las Vegas.
The gathering was held Monday at a casino hotel next door to where the RNC will meet later this week, and many GOP activists complained that committee chair Ronna McDaniel has lost their trust and said they're tired of hearing excuses for the party's string of losses, reported Politico.
“We are at war,” one man shouted at the event hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action. “Where are the tools? Where are all the little things that the left is doing but we don’t?”
Terry Dittrich, chair of the Waukesha County, Wisconsin, GOP, griped that the national party should have already set up year-round voter outreach programs like he sees Democrats doing, and what his county organization has attempted to carry out on their own.
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“The fact of the matter is the same executive committee, the same leadership structure, the same strategic plans, the same ‘victory programs’ are all in place with the same people, and yet we have lost 22 out of 25 statewide races,” Dittrich said. “And so my question would be simple: If you’re in a business and your business lost 22 of 25 accounts that you were after, would you have the same structure continue? Would you have the same people continuing to lead?”
Charlie Kirk, the head of the youth-oriented Turning Point organization, has been a longtime antagonist to McDaniel -- his group's summit was labeled “Restoring National Confidence” in a clear shot at the RNC -- and he was sharply critical of the national organization in an interview.
“They’re a bunch of losers – they know it, the grassroots knows it, the donors know it,” Kirk said. “They lost in ’18, they lost in ’20, they lost in 2022. We have tried to reach out to them many times, and I’m not going to put up with another culture of losing.”
About two dozen of the RNC's 168 members attended the Turning Point conference, and some of them expressed hopes of mending the rift between the two groups, but other RNC members and many GOP grassroots activists made clear they weren't interested in compromise but were diving deep into the conspiratorial politics embodied by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who took part in the conference.
“I used to be the establishment when I first got started in politics,” said Fanchon Blythe, an RNC committeewoman from Nebraska, where activists are purging their party leadership. “But God awakened me.”
