Evidently those resolutions that were brought last week to prevent RNC money from being used to pay for Trump’s legal bills ended up being made into paper airplanes. In any event, they’re gone with the wind now, as is the Republican party. Mark this day in history well. The party formerly known as the GOP breathed its last today as it unhesitatingly turned over the keys to a massively in debt defendant in four criminal trials, with more possible civil trials to come, arising out of January 6.
I must say that I am somewhat surprised. I took the drafting of the resolutions by Henry Barbour, Mississippi’s national committeeman, regarding paying Trump’s bills, as a sign of some spine and survival instinct left in the party. I was wrong. Barbour confirmed to several news outlets day before yesterday that the resolutions he drafted that would have prohibited the committee from covering the former president’s growing legal bills is dead. I missed that. I wish I had known that yesterday, it would not have come as any surprise this morning that Trump was able to post his $91M bond.
So the RNC just handed the Trump crime family the keys to their kingdom. Well, 1854 to 2024 is not a bad run, though, all in all. 170 years. And they did it by voice vote and there was not a single nay to either the election of the election denying conspiracy theorist, Michael Whatley, and the daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. They now have the keys to the highway and Chris LaCita, Trump’s chief strategist, will run the day to day RNC functions, according to the Washington Post. They just gave it all away to the loudest voice in the room. Now the loose end they’re trying to tie up is Nikki Haley’s current refusal to endorse the Mango Madman.
Former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s last rival for the nomination until she suspended her campaign Wednesday, had criticized his choice of his own daughter-in-law to lead the party. She has said she no longer feels bound by her pledge to support the eventual nominee since Trump never made the promise himself, and she has called on him to earn her voters’ support.
Before McDaniel spoke Friday, Arizona RNC member Tyler Bowyer — a frequent critic — asked to add business to the agenda but was rejected by a voice vote. Bowyer said he wanted to discuss holding Haley accountable for her pledge to support the nominee, including a possible censure if she doesn’t endorse Trump.
“It would leave an indelible mark on the RNC to allow Nikki to campaign against Trump after having signed that agreement,” Bowyer said in a text message. “We should vocally expect her to do the right thing, what she agreed to.”
Recent polling from Quinnipiac University found that about half of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters who supported Haley would vote for Trump, while 37 percent would vote for Biden. Twelve percent said they would abstain, vote for someone else or hadn’t yet decided what to do.
Haley ran as Trump’s loudest and most visible Republican antagonist, and it was a core part of the former U.N. ambassador’s appeal among many of her supporters. But even some of her most enthusiastic fans said they will vote for the Republican nominee no matter what. Others, though, are wrestling with how to vote this fall and wondering whether there’s a place for them in Trump’s GOP.
The Washington Post spoke to nearly 40 Haley voters in four Super Tuesday states about how they would vote in a Biden-Trump rematch, a prospect that often elicited groans or hands thrown up in disappointment.
Trump has “worn me out, frankly. I’m tired of everything becoming about him. … Really, I think the turning point was January 6 and the lead-up to that, and he lost me then and I’ve never looked back.”
— Tom Kim, 61, Centennial, Colo.
Voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020 but isn’t sure whom he would support in a Biden-Trump rematch.
If the Republican Party is going towards Donald Trump, I will never vote Republican again in my life.”
— Garrett Helgesen, 31, Centerville, Utah
Voted for independent candidate Evan McMullin in 2016 and Biden in 2020. Plans to vote for Haley in the general unless there’s a viable third-party candidate.
The Republican party has gone for Trump and they plan to ride that pale horse clean out of existence. So be it. There is no leadership in the GOP. Somehow, somebody will find a way to build a new party.
But don’t look to Chris Sununu, once considered a possible candidate for a presidential run in 2028. He drank the Kool-aide this morning.
The capitulation is nearly complete.
(Nikki will be next).
Fucking cowards all.— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) March 8, 2024
Let’s see what Haley does. She’s a crucial piece of this because if she holds out she may be able to lead a new conservative party. If she capitulates, then I don’t know what will happen. I do know that if they lose as badly, or worse, than they have the last three elections, that they just can’t continue to consider themselves a viable party.
A viable party wins some, loses some. Four election losses in a row is a massive red flag that something is not working. It is the same red flag that drove the Whigs into extinction and paved the way for the Republicans of 1854.
The GOP.
R.I.P.
While Trump et al set about draining the corpse of anything they can, like the Fremen in Dune.
RIP? More like GRRIH (Good Riddance Rot In Hell)
April 30th…the day Hitler did the world a favor and put a bullet in his brain. Too bad he wasn’t shot by the solider that had him in his sights in WW1.
March 8th…the day the Republican party hung itself from the nazi rafters. Death will come more slowly, but they will be remembered for morphing into the American version of the nazi party, and the evil of the reconstruction south. The British King had to be stopped with armed conflict. The Confederacy had to be stopped with armed conflict. Hitler had to be stopped by armed conflict. We have ONE SHOT to stop these nazis without having to pick up a gun. ONE, and I don’t give a rat’s ass how unpalatable that statement is…it is the truth. VOTE! Funny how the one thing they don’t train you for in boot camp is how to argue a fascist into another point of view. Hey 99%, in case you missed it, the military trains it members to pick up guns. That’s why YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
USE IT!!!
I guess we can officially start calling them the TNP now. As in Trump National Party, or perhaps more accurately the Trump Nazi Party.
Wello you could consider the Grossly Repugnant Offensive Pack of the Extreme Racist Scum (aka GROPERS)
Daithi – brilliant!
Wonder if musk doesn’t give any big $ to rnc, but then other billionaires start to give. Interesting times…
This what a secret ballot looks like under trump. Chilling to the bone.