{"id":11421,"date":"2023-11-10T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T01:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/gop-debate-fireworks-why-vivek-ramaswamy-took-aim-at-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel\/"},"modified":"2023-11-10T01:50:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T01:50:39","slug":"gop-debate-fireworks-why-vivek-ramaswamy-took-aim-at-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/10\/gop-debate-fireworks-why-vivek-ramaswamy-took-aim-at-rnc-chair-ronna-mcdaniel\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP debate fireworks: Why Vivek Ramaswamy took aim at RNC chair Ronna McDaniel"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI \u2013 <\/span>A Republican presidential candidate fired personal insults against the chair of his own party in one of the most bizarre moments of the combustible Republican presidential debate Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Vivek Ramaswamy, the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur and first-time candidate who\u2019s been one of the biggest surprises during the 2024 election cycle, once again targeted former ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who has been rising in GOP primary polls for several months.<\/p>\n

But at the start of the third debate, Ramaswamy took aim at someone who wasn\u2019t even on the stage or even in the race \u2014 Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.<\/p>\n

Speaking the night after the GOP suffered a slew of setbacks in the 2023 off-year elections, Ramaswamy unloaded on McDaniel, who minutes earlier had taken to the stage to address the audience in the debate pre-show.<\/p>\n

Ramaswamy \u2014 who has highlighted \u2018outsider\u2019 credentials since launching his presidential campaign in February \u2014 argued the GOP has become \u2018a party of losers\u2019 and said there\u2019s a \u2018cancer\u2019 in the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n

\u2018Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, [the] red wave that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023,\u2019 Ramaswamy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He urged that \u2018we have to have accountability in our party. For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will yield my time to you.\u2019<\/p>\n

Asked about the attack, McDaniel said in the spin room after the debate, \u2018I\u2019m not running for anything. So let\u2019s focus on Joe Biden and beating the Democrats. That\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do.\u2019<\/p>\n

McDaniel was picked by former President Donald Trump soon after his 2016 White House victory to steer the national party committee. She was re-elected in 2019, 2021 and again in January, when she announced that this would be her final two-year term leading the RNC.<\/p>\n

After the debate Wednesday, Fox News Digital asked McDaniel about the much-discussed debate moment from Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n

\u2018Everybody\u2019s gotta get headlines, right?\u2019 she answered. \u2018I am very proud of the RNC and our staff and the work that we\u2019ve done to win back the House. Remember, I am the person who was chair of Michigan who flipped that state for the first time in 30 years. And I\u2019m going to continue working hard on beating the Democrats, and I\u2019m not going to attack other Republicans. That\u2019s just a fact.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ramaswamy told Fox News\u2019 Aishah Hasnie after the debate, \u2018I don\u2019t have a personal problem with Ronna.\u2019<\/p>\n

But he reiterated, \u2018I have a problem with a party that repeatedly loses its elections\u2026 And I do think that it\u2019s a party that\u2019s a little bit out of touch with its base.\u2019<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a view shared by some on the far right side of the party \u2014 and some in MAGA world.<\/p>\n

Among those weighing in was Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA and a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump \u2014 the commanding front-runner for the GOP nomination \u2014 who posted on social media a video of Ramaswamy\u2019s debate attack on McDaniel.<\/p>\n

Kirk, a vocal critic of the RNC chair, wrote: \u2018When an NFL team keeps losing games, the coach gets fired. So why does the RNC keep going to war led by the same losers who failed last time?\u2019<\/p>\n

Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in New Hampshire.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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