RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel pins election losses on candidates

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel was on protection Sunday within the wake of criticism for losses in a number of state elections final week.

Conservative critics have lengthy questioned whether or not she’s the perfect match for the job, prompting her to level the finger at particular person candidates who misplaced on the poll field to Democrats in states like Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. 

“Some people don’t understand what we do. We’re a turnout machine,” Ms. McDaniel mentioned on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We’re not the messaging. That comes from the candidate, and that’s up to them. I’m very proud of our minority outreach the RNC is doing.” 

Democrats’ off-year election success was buoyed by abortion entry being a core concern in a post-Roe period, a coverage Republicans have struggled to discover a unified stance on as abortion bans in pink states drag down the GOP elsewhere on the poll field. 

Ms. McDaniel suggested her social gathering to evolve on its abortion coverage messaging however was quick on particulars. 

“I’m not a policy person. I know my lane, and we’re going to let the legislators and the senators and congressional members stake their lane out,” she mentioned. “The Democrats are going to make it a national issue, though. And I do think we have to talk about this issue, because the Democrats will say, ‘We’re going to take it to the Senate and codify it.’”