McDaniel spoke at the RNC’s winter meeting in Las Vegas behind closed doors on Friday, addressing a gathering of state chairmen and other top party members in what’s expected to be a critical swing state in the November election.

“We Republicans will stick together, as united as the union our party long ago fought to preserve,” McDaniel said, quoting Ronald Reagan, according to people who were in the room and disclosed her remarks on condition of anonymity to discuss a private gathering. “We’ll have our battles ahead of us, but they’re good battles, and they’re worth fighting for.”

McDaniel’s appeal for unity comes as former President Donald Trump and his allies push the party to get behind him and effectively end the primary even though he still faces a final major rival, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. While McDaniel has fought off opponents before, winning a competitive race for a fourth term as chairwoman last year, she’s now facing Trump supporters on the far right who are creating parallel efforts that could conflict with the national party.

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    5 months ago

    whaaaat?

    the leading fascist party is low on funds? maybe their entire platform being ‘fascism’ isnt as popular as they thought with people with actual, donate-able money.

    you can only extract so much from morons in trailer parks.

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        5 months ago

        Imagine if Hitler’s rise to power were stopped because his legal bills had bankrupted the Nazi party. If only some German haus frau had sued Hitler into oblivion sometime in the early 1930s…

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      5 months ago

      this is the worst framing

      the needs and wants of people in trailer parks and other impoverished people are just as important as the wants of whose with money,

      and the fact that a politician is more beholden to those with money than those without is a horrible flaw, not a feature.

      We also don’t want to perpetuate the false narrative that the democratic party is the party of rich intellectual elites; that’s one of the most successful selling points for recruiting normal people into the republican party