Five reasons Republicans might start to panic about increasingly Trump-centric RNC

Published February 14, 2024 2:53pm ET



The Republican National Committee has closely aligned itself with former President Donald Trump since he won the GOP nomination in 2016, but electoral results under his leadership have been mixed.

Trump’s pick to be the new RNC co-chair, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump, said on Tuesday that the committee’s “only job” is getting Trump elected in November and that she will use “every single penny” from the RNC to do so if elected. With an increasingly Trump-centric RNC, the former president’s slate of endorsements to replace the current leadership would solidify the trend, but the record under this new focus gives five reasons to question the strategy.

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