RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says ‘nothing unusual’ about low donations

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who has been under fire for the party’s poor performance, is saying the RNC’s low fundraising numbers are a temporary problem.

The RNC raised $7.1 million in October, far behind the Democratic National Committee’s haul of $13.1 million last month, according to Federal Election Committee filings.

“I think there’s more donors just fully committed to their candidate right now, saying I am all in, and once the nominee is set, I’ll be there,” Mrs. McDaniel told The Washington Post. “That’s what I hear more than anything. And they’re really solidly in the camps of their candidate, which is normal.”

“There’s nothing unusual about this, because they know that once their candidate gets in that we will merge and that we’ll be working together to win the White House,” she said.

Still, the lackluster fundraising only adds to Ms. McDaniel’s headaches after a series of election losses for Republicans.

At the Republican presidential debate in Miami earlier this month, candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called on Mrs. McDaniel to resign after Republicans lost in off-year elections across the country.

“If you want to come on stage tonight and you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign I will turn over, yield my time to you,” Mr. Ramaswamy said.

He pointed out that since she became chair, Republicans have lost seats in Congress in 2018, 2020, and 2022.

He wasn’t the only one to turn on Ms. McDaniel.

“What, exactly, does Ronna McDaniel do, besides lose? The only thing she SHOULD do is RESIGN. Effective immediately,” conservative commentator Monica Crowley wrote on X.