If the RNC Hires Lara, They Deserve to Lose

This is why I won’t give a penny to the RNC

The RNC is strapped for cash and getting desperate.

In a fundraising tweet on Wednesday, the GOP admitted that the Democrats are kicking their asses:

Here's the honest truth: things aren't looking too good for Republicans. The Democrats are outraising us. They will be able to buy ads in markets we can't afford, and they will OUTSPEND US. We are gearing up for the election of our lifetime.

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The replies weren’t kind.

While many of the comments blamed the RNC’s woes on Ronna McDaniel and, for some reason, RINO Republicans who support Ukraine, the majority, including yours truly, told the RNC that they didn’t want to help pay Trump’s legal fees.

You want the “honest truth,” RNC? Here’s some “honest truth.”

You guys are screwed.

Apropos of nothing but is there such a thing as “dishonest truth?”

Anyroad.

I mentioned last week that Donald Trump has endorsed his daughter-in-law Lara Trump as co-chair for the RNC, no doubt to serve the interests of her father-in-law.

While campaigning for Trump in South Carolina on Wednesday, Lara said (per Bloomberg):

“We need to make sure that every penny of every dollar donated to the RNC is going to Donald Trump’s campaign, to making sure that we expand our lead in the House with America First patriots who love this country, that we take back the Senate on November 5th of this year.”

Someone at the RNC must have had a little talk with Lara about the purpose of the national party after Lara told Newsmax last week that the “only job of the RNC” was to ensure that “every single penny” went to electing Donald Trump as president to save the country.

That would certainly explain why this time, she added the part about expanding the House majority and winning back the Senate.

A short time later, however, Lara appeared to forget what she said about where every single penny was supposed to go after a reporter asked her if she thought the RNC should also help pay Trump’s legal fees.

Rather than refer them to her earlier statement, Lara said she didn’t know where the RNC stood on that since she wasn’t “officially: at the RNC yet (hat tip to CNN’s Kate Sullivan).

Asked later about campaign donors paying Trump’s legal fees, Lara argued that Republican voters had a “big interest” in paying for Trump’s lawyers.

Really? Lara should read the replies and quote tweets on that RNC fundraising tweet.

I’ll sum it up for you, Lara: Republicans beg to differ.

I wouldn’t let Lara Trump inside the RNC headquarters to use the ladies’ room, let alone make her co-chair.

Lara may repeat the right talking points about voter registration drives and a solid ground game operation, but she’s like every other Trump surrogate — all talk and no action.

I despise nepotism as a general rule, but it is especially reprehensible when it endangers the future of the country.

Trump shoving his daughter-in-law into a position with the RNC would lead to electoral disaster.

Don’t let Lara’s talk fool you. Sure, she might say that every penny should go to winning the White House, expanding the House majority, and retaking the Senate. But her off-the-cuff remarks to reporters gave the game away.

Lara told reporters on Wednesday (per the Associated Press):

“Having someone like me in there I think will go a long way for people. I can assure you that my loyalty is to my father-in-law and I will make sure that every penny is used properly.”

How does someone whose loyalty is to Trump define “used properly?” I’ll take a wild stab at it and say it means “every penny goes to Trump.”

The only qualification of Lara’s that Trump cares about is revealed in that statement.

He isn’t interested in backing the best person for the job. Merit, experience, a proven track record of getting a job done — Donald Trump is indifferent to all of that. Loyalty to Trump is the only qualification that matters.

An RNC co-chair should be a fundraising juggernaut with management and organizational skills that are second to none. It is too damn late in the game to leave the party’s fate in the hands of a rank amateur chosen solely for her loyalty to her father-in-law.

The RNC has less than ten months to establish a successful ground operation and mass voter registration effort. To make that happen, the party needs to raise millions and millions of dollars, especially since it limped into 2024 with the tiniest war chest in years.

In short, the RNC needs a miracle worker.

And Loyal Lara does not fit the bill.