Subpar recruits are undermining the 'post-purge' RNC only 229 days ahead of the election: conservative
With former Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel gone, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has undergone an ultra-MAGA makeover under new leadership that includes Chairman Michael Whatley and Co-Chair Lara Trump. Donald Trump's daughter-in-law has made it clear that anyone who isn't thoroughly committed the MAGA movement and his reelection campaign isn't welcome in the RNC, which has seen mass firings in a short period of time.
In a column published on March 21, The Bulwark's Andrew Egger is vehemently critical of the RNC's new direction — and argues that subpar hirings reflect the organization's "post-purge" dysfunction.
"How will the new-look, post-purge Trump Superfriends RNC help the Trump campaign through its intense cash crunch?" Egger writes? "The party's two recent polar-opposite legal hires — Charlie Spies and Christina Bobb — provide a clue."
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Egger continues, "Spies, who is coming aboard as the RNC's chief counsel, would seem a bizarre pickup for a party that just remade itself to be more deeply Trumpy than ever. A normie Republican campaign finance lawyer par excellence, Spies' resume is lousy with near-presidents: He was chief counsel for Mitt Romney's 2008 campaign, then counseled Romney's super PAC in 2012, Jeb Bush's in 2016, and Ron DeSantis' last year."
Bobb's resume, meanwhile, includes her work at the far-right One America News (OAN), which prides itself on being to the right of Fox News.
"If you've followed the news in recent years around Trump's many attempts to avoid the consequences of his own actions from losing the 2020 election to fighting his criminal indictments," Egger explains, "you've probably brushed past Bobb's name a time or two. As an anchor for One America News Network after the 2020 election, Bobb slung enough lunatic conspiracy theories around that Dominion Voting Systems singled her out as a named defendant in its defamation lawsuit against the network."
The Never Trumpers continues, "Not content merely to evangelize for Trump's attempt to steal the election, Bobb also quietly lent her talents to Rudy Giuliani's work to recruit slates of fake electors in seven 'contested' states."
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Read the full Bulwark column at this link.
