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Sunday, March 10th, 2024

RNC votes to install Trump’s handpicked leaders, tightening his control of party

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Source:     CBS News
Publication Date:     March 8, 2024 | 3:45 PM EST
Link: RNC votes to install Trump’s handpicked leaders, tightening his control of party
Stephan:  

I am going to stop using the Republican Party as the name of what used to be the party of that name. This party, which was once Republican, no longer has anything in common with the Republican Party of Dwight Eisenhower or even George H.W. Bush (the elder Bush). I am going to call it the Trump christofascist Party (TCP), since it has literally been taken over by criminal Trump and his family and minions. It has millions of willfully ignorant followers who, more than anything, remind me of the Germans who followed Hitler. Between now and November we will see how many of them wake up to what they have become.

Lara Trump attends the RNC’s Spring meeting on March 8, 2024, in Houston, Texas.
Credit: Cecile Clocheret / AFP / Getty

The Republican National Committee voted Friday to install Donald Trump’s handpicked leadership team, completing his takeover of the national party as the former president closes in on a third straight presidential nomination.

Michael Whatley, a North Carolina Republican who has echoed Trump’s false theories of voter fraud, was elected the party’s new national chairman in a vote Friday morning in Houston. Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, was voted in as co-chair.

Trump’s team is promising not to use the RNC to pay his mounting personal legal bills. But Trump and his lieutenants will have firm control of the party’s political and fundraising machinery with limited, if any, internal pushback.

“The RNC is going to be the vanguard of a movement that will work tirelessly every single day to elect our nominee, Donald J. Trump, as the 47th president of the United States,” Whatley told RNC members in a speech after being elected.

Whatley will carry […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 6:38 am

    Donald Trump should be in JAIL. Anyone who would vote for this man is a complete IDIOT.