(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Delusion Thy Name Is Ronna McDaniel: All GOP Pres Candidates To Pledge To Support Final Nominee. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-26 No, this is not a SNL skit. Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel states with a straight face that to get into the RNC debates for president in 2024 all candidates MUST take a pledge to support the eventual nominee. I’d say that McDaniel is suffering from ergot because Mormons aren’t supposed to drop acid. This proposal is just delusional. GOP Chair Makes Delusional Promises on Behalf of Donald Trump SURE, RO Ronna McDaniel believes Donald Trump will abide by everything he hasn’t in past years. I’m glad The Daily Beast saw the root problem with Ronna McDaniel, but here is some of what she says: GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel painted a rosy picture of the Republican Party headed into the 2024 election on Sunday, namely a united front, candidates supporting one another, and Donald Trump accepting the results of an election. Her picture, however, seemed devoid of the reality her party members have lived in. In her first interview since her contentious reelection last month, McDaniel presented a mission statement of unity, one she said propelled her to a fourth term. “We can't be so vicious and vitriolic with each other that we don't want to support each other in the end,” she told CNN’s Dana Bash. “I'm already working to bring the committee together but I think this is a symbol of our party.” She then made a litany of claims, including all Republican candidates will sign a pledge to support the eventual 2024 nominee in order to appear on the debate stage. “Everybody should support the will of the voters,” she said. “We’re not going to defeat Joe Biden if we get in this tit for tat of, ‘I'm not going to support this nominee or I'm not going to support this one.’ So that's why we want to put this to bed early.” She didn’t add that Republicans need to be vicisous and vitriolic with the real enemy: The Judean People’s Front! Anyway, The Daily Beast points out that some Republicans have already vowed not to support Trump in 2024 (Asa Hutchinson, Mitt Romney, and Granny Killer Paul Ryan). I think that only Romney means it. Hutchinson is thinkingabout dipping his big toe into the water for 2024, and Ryan is only brave when it comes to impoverishing the elderly, who he feels are not as dangerous as the younger MAGA cult. But the absurdity here is that anyone will make Trump support a GOP nominee not named Donald Trump. The most notable, however, is Donald Trump. Trump told Hugh Hewitt earlier this month that his potential support “would depend on the nominee,” just as it was in 2016—on a GOP debate stage. McDaniel demurred, saying Trump would sign the pledge and debate. “I think President Trump would like to be on the debate stage. That's what he likes to do,” she said. Until he doesn’t. Trump famously skipped two 2016 primary debates, pointing to his distaste for Megyn Kelly and his general disinterest in debating John Kasich. Bash didn’t press McDaniel on his past precedent, but history has not offered support for McDaniel’s assertions. Oh, and McDaniel states that the eventual nominee will accept the election results in 2024. What helped McDaniel spew these lies and delusions is that she was being interviewed by CNN’s Dana Bash. The same person who kept stating that Trump was going to “pivot” at any moment and be a serious president. This has become a joke among even her fellow CNN reporters. Therefore, this was a friendly interview for McDaniel. But it was nice to see at least one news outlet call McDaniel delusional. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155140/-Delusion-Thy-Name-Is-Ronna-McDaniel-All-GOP-Pres-Candidates-To-Pledge-To-Support-Final-Nominee Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/