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

    Yeeeeah, you’ve already been sidelined as part of a fascist takeover. You guys had your chance to stop him, a few years ago before he took the mask completely off. Mike Pence even actually did, temporarily at least, and deserves credit for that. They wanted to hang him for it.

    Now it’s our turn. If we fail it’ll eventually be the military’s job, and whether they choose to uphold their oaths to defend a piece of paper and literally coup him when he ignores it. If they fail, we get a fascist hell and probably end up invading Mexico, because war is how incompetent fascists keep the wheels spinning. So, kindly fuck off. Best thing you can do is spend the RNC bank account on a nice lavish vacation for yourself and vote for Biden.

    Naive fools. The business elite thought they could control Hitler too. Didn’t work out so well for them either.