Ronna McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), announced on Monday that she will resign from her position on March 8th, following the loss of support from former President Donald Trump.
McDaniel, who has led the RNC since 2017, said in a statement to the New York Times that she will step aside at the party’s spring training meeting in Houston, Texas, to allow Trump, who is the presumptive nominee for the 2024 election, to select a new chair of his choosing.
The 50-year-old is the niece of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the former chair of the Michigan GOP. She was hand-picked by Trump after his 2016 victory to lead the RNC, and was re-elected to a fourth term in January 2023.
However, her relationship with the former president soured after the 2020 election, when the latter allegedly blamed her and other party officials for not doing enough at the previous election.
Donald Trump endorsed a new slate of RNC leaders earlier this month, including North Carolina GOP chair Michael Whatley as the next RNC chair, his daughter-in-law Lara Trump as the co-chair, and his former campaign adviser Chris LaCivita as the chief operating officer. Trump said he expected Ronna McDaniel to resign after the South Carolina Primary, which he won on Saturday.
