# Ronna McDaniel to step down from RNC Chair **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [February 7, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215 "2024-02-07T02:30:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/41 "2024-03-26T19:24:32Z")
Very true. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/42 "2024-03-26T21:15:15Z")
She didn’t even last a Scarramucci, did she? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/43 "2024-03-26T22:26:05Z")
Good news there. ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/44 "2024-03-26T23:20:02Z")
I would rather they had kept her on and eviscerated her every time she lied. I think by firing her they just played into the RW story that we don’t want to hear different opinions. I would love to watch her try and defend the nonsense that trump spews at his rallies. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/45 "2024-03-27T00:30:29Z")
[quote=“Kolak\_of\_Twilo, post:38, topic:997215”] I saw the Rachel Maddow reaction last night. I’m not surprised they’ve dumped McDaniel. [/quote]j Reporters at NBC were in open rebellion over the hire. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/q2sa1hT4nEA/maxresdefault.jpg "Chuck Todd SLAMS NBC Executives For Hiring Ronna McDaniel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2sa1hT4nEA) Chuck Todd (who i like, but who gets criticized often for cowtowing to republicans for access) eviscerated her on Meet The Press. It was pretty impressive. Chris Hayes on MSNBC (who I watch) also lodged a direct attack. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/46 "2024-03-27T02:00:51Z")
I would not be surprized to hear that a “we will walk” may have been in the works. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/47 "2024-03-27T02:32:50Z")
> [@steatopygia](#): > > I would rather they had kept her on and eviscerated her every time she lied. She apparently planned to reduce the level of lying while continuing to mislead. That’s what I get [from this](https://wapo.st/3IRvV1s): > [@](#): > > McDaniel did say Biden won “fair and square,” yes, but also insisted that “it’s fair to say there were problems in 2020.” > > “When you have states like Pennsylvania go from 260,000 mail ballots in 2016 to 2.6 million,” McDaniel said, “saying, ‘You know what? When you get rid of ID for all mail-in ballots,’ that’s a concern. We should all be concerned about the care, custody, integrity of every ballot.” If the difference between 260,000 and 2.6 million tells us something significant in terms of the Republicans having been cheated, than Biden didn’t win “fair and square.” Would she have kept on with a makes-no-sense Trump-slightly-light approach as an opinion journalist? I do not know. I kindda guess that she would have pivoted to not lying if given a bit of transition time. It had to have been a mistake was for her to have been interviewed on Meet with Press when she was in transition from being a GOP flak to being an opinion journalist. Everyone involved, including viewers, has to clearly know which you currently are. I guess the most likely thing is that she sees herself as a public relations professional who does what her boss wants. So if the RNC wanted far right, she gave them far right, and if CNN starts wanting center-right, or centrism, or anything else, she would have given that to them. However, I find it impossible to believe that the highly legitimate mid-level journalist/producers who hired her, looked at the hire that way. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/48 "2024-03-27T02:37:48Z")
Frankly, I don’t see much difference between McDaniel’s hiring and when ABC hired George Stephanopoulos straight from the Clinton administration in 1997. Stephanopoulos was not a paragon of virtue while serving Clinton, and played a lead role in trashing Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones. He went on to host _This Week_ (not just serve as a commentator) and then _Good Morning America_, and is arguably the most recognized face at ABC NNews. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/49 "2024-03-27T02:54:45Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I guess the most likely thing is that she sees herself as a public relations professional who does what her boss wants AKA a paid liar. Why would a news organization want a paid liar on staff? ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/50 "2024-03-27T16:00:15Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > She didn’t even last a Scarramucci, did she? One Ronna = 0.4545 Scaramuccis. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/51 "2024-03-27T16:39:21Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > One Ronna = 0.4545 Scaramuccis. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, used to measure a fiasco… ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/52 "2024-03-27T16:50:49Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Frankly, I don’t see much difference between McDaniel’s hiring and when ABC hired George Stephanopoulos straight from the Clinton administration in 1997. In the video I linked to above, Chuck Todd had said that hiring her as a political consultant to the RNC convention could be defensible. He also suggested having her vetted by their reporters; let her ease in to a role. From what I see of contemporary reporting of Stephanopholous’ hire, that’s what ABC did. > [@](#): > > George Stephanopoulos, one of President Clinton’s closest advisers, has been hired by ABC News as a contributing correspondent… > > At ABC, Stephanopoulos will contribute to various programs, but at the outset he will appear most often as a political analyst on “This Week,” the Sunday morning news program with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson as co-hosts. > > Eventually Stephanopoulos is expected to do some reporting as a correspondent, according to the network. > **[Abc News Hires Stephanopoulos](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1996/dec/12/abc-news-hires-stephanopoulos/)** > > George Stephanopoulos, one of President Clinton's closest advisers, has been hired by ABC News as a contributing correspondent, completing the second pillar of a dual career he said he planned to pursue after leaving the White House. > The first... ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/53 "2024-03-27T20:18:14Z")
> [@Kent\_Clark](#): > > Frankly, I don’t see much difference between McDaniel’s hiring and when ABC hired George Stephanopoulos straight from the Clinton administration in 1997. Well, one did try to steal an election and destroy democracy in this country. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/54 "2024-03-27T21:29:55Z")
Suggest you read Stephanopoulos’ memoir _All Too Human_ about his work with Clinton, and keep in mind this quote from him about whether Clinton set him up to go out and lie to reporters. > I can’t always tell the difference. I’m agnostic on whether it was forgetting, deliberately omitting or at times deliberately deceiving. I can’t always tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215/55 "2024-03-27T22:02:43Z")
> [@solost](#): > > Scaramouche, Scaramouche, used to measure a fiasco… Well done, sir/ma’am. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ronna-mcdaniel-to-step-down-from-rnc-chair/997215.md?page=2)