Ron DeSantis backs RNC changes, but not necessarily the ones Donald Trump wants
Ron DeSantis. Image via AP.

Ron DeSantis
The Governor told South Carolina reporters that previous criticisms he had of the party were 'proven right.'

Ron DeSantis had planned on spending a lot of time in South Carolina before Saturday’s GOP Primary. While the overall plan changed when he left the presidential race after his loss in Iowa, he still made it to the Palmetto State to discuss the 2024 contest and the future of the Republican National Committee (RNC).

Regarding plans by Donald Trump’s political operation to stack the RNC with allies, including Trump ally Michael Whatley as Chair and Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara, as Co-Chair, the Governor offered a muted and noncommittal response.

He said that previous criticisms he’d made of the RNC under Ronna McDaniel’s watch have been “proven right.”

“I don’t know, to be honest with you, I’m not familiar with Mr. Whatley,” DeSantis said. “I’ve met Lara Trump too, but I don’t know as much there.”

“But after the Midterms of 2022 I said you need to make changes, not for any personal reason because of getting along or not getting along, but when you lose election cycle after election cycle, at some point, you got to try something different,” DeSantis added.

He said that that not every race is the RNC’s “fault.”

“But in 2018, we lost the House in resounding fashion. 2020 obviously, we lost the presidency and the U.S. Senate. 2022: We should have had a massive red wave that crashed and burned, barely won the House.”

“You can’t just keep rewarding if the performance isn’t there,” DeSantis added.

The Governor expressed concern that the ongoing Primary battle between Trump and Haley would disadvantage Republicans in November as well.

“Democrats are sitting on a lot of money,” DeSantis said. “They’ve raised, I think, more up to this point than any incumbent president has raised.”

“They’ve made $250 million in reservations for Super PACs already. And this is January, February of the election year. There’s going to be a deluge more coming in,” DeSantis added. “So I just think as Republicans, the RNC is basically broke. We need to get our act together and start focusing on having the resources.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


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    February 21, 2024 at 8:57 am

    GOP can rearrange the chairs all they like, but it’s the policy that’s letting all that water in

  • ROI Rhonda

    February 21, 2024 at 9:03 am

    Ron DeSantis of the Ron DeSantis campaign is giving financial advice to the RNC?

    150 million dollars spent
    0 counties won in Iowa
    150,000,000 divided by zero = ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR ERROR

    DIVISION BY ZERO BY A ZERO

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      February 21, 2024 at 7:40 pm

      Fools and their money are soon separated.

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    February 27, 2024 at 2:04 pm

    If just two of the 20+ House Republicans who won’t be seeking re-election at the end of their terms were to truly care about the border and the USA, the RNC change to make is: resign now.

    2 House GOPs resign and then we are back with an elected Speaker of the House, Hakeem Jeffries, not unelected Donald Trump, and then the GOP border bill could be passed despite Trump’s conflicting interest in his own personal campaign for whatever it’s for.

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