Ronna McDaniel defeated rival Harmeet Dhillon to secure a fourth two-year term as Republican National Committee (RNC) chairwoman after a three-day meeting at a luxury resort in Dana Point, California, on Jan. 27 when RNC committee members cast their votes.
McDaniel won 111 of the 167 votes cast out of a possible 168 RNC committee members in the simple majority race. Dhillon received 51, followed by Mike Lindell with 4, and Lee Zeldin with one.
Upon her victory, McDaniel called for GOP party unity.
“We need all of us. We heard you grassroots. We know. We heard Harmeet. We heard Mike Lindell,” she told committee members after the secret ballot votes were counted. “But with us united and all of us going together, the Democrats are going to hear us in 2024 when we take the White House and the Senate.”…