From CBS:
The Republican National Committee is meeting in Dana Point, Calif. this week to select a new chair to lead the party’s infrastructure going into the 2024 election cycle after the party’s disappointing showing in the midterm elections.
From HuffPo:
Rooms at the Waldorf Astoria Monarch Beach resort, where the Republican National Committee is holed up this week, start at $1,283 for Wednesday night, with a AAA discount, and $881 for Thursday night. Those rates do not include a mandatory $55 a night resort fee. And just parking costs $75 a day, per one attendee.
RNC members and staff pointed out that, thanks to the block rate negotiated with the hotel, members, their invited guests and party staff are paying a base rate of only $250 a night.
Though that discount makes the rooms affordable for members ― many of whom are not especially wealthy and who, for the most part, pay their own expenses to attend meetings ― it still leaves hefty fees for food and incidentals.
That block rate, though, is available only to people whom the party or one of its 168 members wants to be there.
And that, by definition, excludes the precinct- and state-level “anti-establishment” party activists who are most interested in blocking incumbent chair Ronna McDaniel from winning a fourth two-year term.
Ronna’s challengers: Mike Lindell and Harmeet Dhillon
The RNC needs to focus on winning elections instead of trying to stay on Trump’s good side. Winning elections requires candidates who can succeed with general-election voters and not just a partisan primary,” said Republican Donor Dan Eberhart. “Winning elections requires candidates who can succeed with general-election voters and not just a partisan primary,” he said. “The Trump base may want to weed out those Republicans they consider insufficiently loyal, but that makes for a much smaller and weaker party. We need to attract more voters if we want to be able to govern, not fewer.”
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