RNC chair: Party must remain unified

Ronna McDaniel, the chair of the Republican National Committee, called for unity among members of the party after a lackluster showing in the midterm elections delivered a narrow GOP majority in the House but failed to take control of the Senate.

McDaniel, who is up for reelection in January, warned that “infighting” among members of her party will pave the way to victory for Democratic candidates in future elections.

“We can’t hate each other so much that we forget what the Democrats are doing to this country. We can’t be so mad at each other that we say, ‘I’m not going to vote for this Republican because they like this candidate, or they’re a RINO or establishment or MAGA,” McDaniel told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM show in an interview that aired Sunday.

“We have got to come together, because if you look at many of these elections right now, the Republican voters were difference makers. We have got to come together because the Democrats are destroying our country. Unity is going to be the word of the day if we’re going to win in 2023 and 2024 . . . But if we have infighting no one is attracted to our party,” she said.

McDaniel pointed to Georgia where Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock held off a challenge by Republican Herschel Walker as indicative of the “ticket splitting” taking place among Republican voters.

Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, cruised to reelection over Stacey Abrams on Nov. 8 by more than 8 percentage points even as Walker was forced into a runoff against Warnock because neither candidate got more than 50% of the vote.

Warnock then defeated the former NFL star in the Dec. 6 runoff.