Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel faced another wave of calls to resign from her position over social media on Friday.
McDaniel, who has served as the RNC chair since 2017, has been heavily scrutinized by members of her own party ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Critics of the chairwoman have blamed her for the Republicans’ losing streak since 2020. Others are concerned over the GOP’s funding issues heading into the November election.
The chairwoman was again blasted for a post on X, formerly Twitter, that celebrated the 51st annual March for Life, an anti-abortion rally hosted in Washington, D.C. McDaniel wrote on Friday morning that the “Republican Party stands with the tens of thousands of Americans braving the snow in Washington, D.C. to stand for life, babies, and mothers at the #MarchForLife!”
Several Republicans underneath McDaniel’s post used the chance to again call for her resignation, including conservative internet personality Mike Sperrazza.
“Here’s the problem, you do NOTHING to actually help the Republican Party,” Sperraza wrote on X. “Resign please.”
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“You need to resign from your position,” wrote another X user, @SteveLovesAmmo. “If you were employed at my company, you would have been fired years ago.”
“You are not a leader, please resign,” said X user Bruce Bane.
Far-right activist and self-proclaimed Islamophobe Laura Loomer also used McDaniel’s post to criticize the chairwoman for not standing with former President Donald Trump during the Iowa causes on Monday. McDaniel and the RNC faced immense pressure to use the group’s finances to back the former president after he won the first Republican primary vote by a landslide.
“Braving the snow? lol it’s like 2 inches,” Loomer wrote Friday. “Some of us worked through a once in a decade blizzard and negative 20 degree weather and wind chill in Iowa last week, risking getting frost bite, to help President Trump while you didn’t lift a finger for him. Stop being such a drama queen.”
According to Brooke Hagenhoff, a National Weather Service meteorologist who spoke with USA Today, temperatures reached 4 degrees below zero on Monday as caucusgoers started to gather at the polls. Due to wind chill in cities like Des Moines, the temperature felt more like 21 to 24 degrees below zero.
Newsweek reached out to the RNC via email for comment.
McDaniel has also faced criticism for her stance on abortion in the past, especially after a disappointing 2023 where Republicans lost in several local elections on the issue. Since the overturn of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, abortion rights have proven to be a winning topic for Democrats, with many Americans believing that the GOP’s stance on abortion is too restrictive.
Friday’s March for Life rally was scheduled to begin at noon, according to the organization’s X page. Supporters for the movement gathered in front of the Washington Monument for a pre-rally concert before marching through the National Mall and toward the U.S. Supreme Court building.
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