In a move that could have considerable consequences for the future of the Republican party, Politico is reporting that Harmeet Dhillon is considering a challenge to Ronna McDaniel for the RNC chair position.
Mrs Dhillon is a current RNC national committee member from California and her legal firm Dhillon Law is a current contractor to the RNC. A little more than a week ago Harmeet Dhillon announced she was going to be partnered with the notorious and corrupt DC insider Henry Barbour from Mississippi. Barbour, a man of extremely sketchy political disposition, is also a national RNC committee member, and together they were to perform an RNC autopsy in the aftermath of the 2022 midterm election.
Ronna McDaniel said she was going to run for reelection to the RNC chair post despite dismal performance by the national organization against the DNC ballot gathering operation. Additionally, the trust factor between the RNC and the voting base of the party, specifically the MAGA base, has completely evaporated. The RNC has focused more on raising money than supporting elections and candidates.
Previously, New York Congressman Lee Zeldin said he was considering a challenge, and MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell announced his full intent to challenge McDaniel for the role and responsibility. Into this dynamic now steps Harmeet Dhillon.
As a party insider, Harmeet Dhillon would represent a significant threat to the Ronna McDaniel wing of the RNC as many members who may not support Zeldin or Lindell would likely support Dhillon over McDaniel.
Arguably, Ronna McDaniel was motivated by self-preservation and using a proclaimed reformer, albeit RNC contracted legal advisor, Harmeet Dhillon, to put a coat of new paint over the corrupt and failed RNC vehicle. Dhillon and Barbour playing a role for the RNC as a failed institution similar to the tamp-down efforts of Bill Barr and John Durham at the DOJ.
In their article, Politico avoids mentioning the financial relationship between Dhillon Law and the RNC. By the time 2022 is completed, the Republican National Committee will likely have paid Dhillon Law over a million dollars for services rendered.
We previously wondered how Harmeet Dhillon was going to vote against the reelection of Ronna McDaniel who is effectively her employer. Obviously, there is a conflict of interest inside the financial dynamic overall.
Ms. Dhillon, claiming all of her work for the RNC was/is voluntary, was furious at criticism over her self-promoted relationship with the notoriously corrupt Henry Barbour, and then secondarily angered by public knowledge about her financial relationship with the RNC.
(Politico) Ronna McDaniel is about to draw a challenge to her post as Republican National Committee chair.
Harmeet Dhillon, a RNC committeewoman whose firm represents Donald Trump, is prepping a bid for party chair, according to two people familiar with her planning. Dhillon has been talking with fellow RNC members about a prospective run, and those close to Dhillon say a formal launch could come within the next few days.
“After three successive terms of underwhelming results at the polls for the GOP, all the while with leaders congratulating ourselves for outstanding performance, I feel that we owe it to our voters to have a serious debate about the leadership of the party and what we must change to actually win in 2024,” Dhillon said in a statement.
A Dhillon candidacy would mark the most serious challenge to McDaniel to date.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.), who ran an unsuccessful bid for New York governor, has also said he is considering a bid, though he has yet to declare his candidacy. Mike Lindell, the MyPillow executive and Trump backer who has risen to prominence through his denial of the 2020 election outcome, has launched a longshot campaign for the post.
The committee’s 168 members will hold a vote to determine the RNC chairmanship at the committee’s annual winter meeting, which is set to be held in late January in Dana Point, Calif. A McDaniel representative declined to comment on Dhillon’s anticipated candidacy.
McDaniel, who has been RNC leader since 2017 and would be the longest-serving chair in more than a century should she be reelected to a third term, may be tough to unseat. Her allies say she has already received commitments of support from more than 100 members — more than the majority of votes she would need. On Friday, McDaniel received an endorsement from David Bossie, an influential Maryland RNC committeeman once seen as a potential contender for the chairmanship. Trump himself has not endorsed.
People close to Dhillon, however, insist that McDaniel’s support is soft and that she could win over those who are unhappy with the party’s disappointing showing in this year’s midterms. (read more)
It is likely that Harmeet Dhillon could fracture the support base for Ronna McDaniel at the RNC.
What is lesser known is the difference that might exist within the organization if Dhillon replaced McDaniel.
The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money.
The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The donor activity of the RNC drives their ideology. This is the essential difference.
The priority of the DNC is to win elections, assemble power and by extension control the mechanisms that deliver them wealth. The priority of the RNC is money, and by extension winning elections is not the most important thing. The priority of the RNC is the accumulation of wealth for itself.
The DNC has ideology as their core mission objective, that focus drives their fundraising and ballot collection. In this approach the ideology remains consistent. However, the RNC has monetary gain as their core mission objective, and that drives their ideology. The RNC ideology is therefore subject to being purchased by the desires of the current biggest buyer.
The democrats want power. The republicans want money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money.
Every single decision by Ronna McDaniel emphasized this RNC dynamic over the past six years. Would the RNC prioritization of money change under Harmeet Dhillon? Some might say yes, but Dhillon’s aversion to sunlight on her paid role for the RNC points to an answer by itself.
The biggest issue within the dynamic of the RNC is the lack of honesty, transparency and clear-thinking stewardship. The RNC regards republican voters as annoyances to be overcome and managed in the assembly of their priority, money. Harmeet Dhillon has expressed on her social media she wants to change this dynamic. However, change comes first by looking in the mirror and dropping the conflicts of interest.
Ronna McDaniel, Harmeet Dhillon, Mike Lindell and possibly Lee Zeldin.
If honesty, integrity and a willingness to take slings and arrows in defense of the country are the main organizational attributes desired in an RNC leader, you can look at the names and make the prediction. However, if the priority of RNC members is the desire to continue business operation for maximum financial gain, that too is predictable.
Money, it’s what the modern RNC is all about. Nothing else has mattered in the past 15+ years.
Given the outcome of the November election, I don’t see that priority changing. However, given the outcome of 2016, 2018, 2020 and 2022, maybe there is enough pressure now to change it.
We will find out late January.
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How much plastic surgery has Ronna Delecto had lately?
Waaaay too much.
Didn’t help. They can’t work miracles – see Chelsea Clinton.
For looks, Rona runs rings around doggy Chels. Rona has lost a lot of weight.
Botox and fillers probably. No downtime recovering from surgery and it gives the plump look they all have now.
Dont get me started on the trout fish lips. If those gals could only see their profile picture instead of straight-on in a mirror they’d realize how ridiculous they look.
On your dime
6 of one and a 1/2 dozen of the other.
Out of the frying pan into the fire.
But as you say the RNC is a private corp. that looks out for itself and not the voters.
WE, the base are NOT the “stockholders” of the RNC Corporation, but we ARE the consumers.
The RNC is totally focused on marketing political INFLUENCE; THAT is their product.
Its WHY Big donors donate to the RNC; they are buying influence.
If the RNC ceases to have INFLUENCE, the money stream stops flowing.
But it is WE, the consumers who give the RNC its political influence, so without US, voting for the “R, cause the D is worse” RINO’s lose elections, and hence lose political influence.
Remember AOL? Large, profitable Corporations can be brought down, once they lose their customer base to COMPETITION.
Vote for AmericaFirst, MAGA Republicans only, and ONLY vote for AmericaFirst MAGA Republicans.
And yes, I still believe that the ballot box is preferable to the ammo box, and that policy differences are better resolved thru political battles, than thru Civil War battles.
To “give up” on elections IS to surrender, you might as well hang a white flag in front of your house.
Ditto, to “give up” on voting entirely, which is cutting off your nose to spite your face, and giving the enemy a victory.
To register as an unaffiliated voter, you might as well turn in your guns, and declare yourself a “conscientious objector” non-combatant.
WE can NEVER;
Give up, back down, concede or compromise with the enemy, or else WE lose, and losing means death.
If we resort to “the ammo box” our enemy is victorious, as they WANT the destruction of our Republic, they WANT massive depopulation, and they want an excuse to declare Martial law.
The ammo box simply holds no positive resolution for us; KEEP your arms, yes. BEAR your arms, certainly. But discharging your arms?
Gains us NOTHING, and only serves our enemies up a total victory.
But you Can leave them were they BELONG – Hanging out to DRY!
Give them all the Attention they have EARNED – IGNORE THEM! After their Trials for violating their FIDUCIARY Responsibilities to the Constitution of the United States of America.
The solution is to engineer a takeover of the RNC. Then fight elections to gain critical offices. Lastly, begin legislation that will bankrupt the Democrat party for its Jim Crow creation and operation along with legislation to abolish it for those same Jim Crow operations.
These things can not be elected or un-elected, nor can ANY election change them in any way. That’s not “giving up”, it simply means accepting reality.
At the same time…
You don’t need to jump from the ballot box directly to the ammo box. But, these conversations need to start within a realistic means of producing actual results.
Confusing a for profit corporation for a non profit political NGO isn’t doing that.
“If the RNC ceases to have INFLUENCE, the money stream stops flowing.”
Must be why we’re seeing them allow a “challenge” to RNC leadership…
the trust factor between the RNC and the voting base of the party, specifically the MAGA base, has completely evaporated = people have stopped donating.
The left is beating them in grassroots and corporate money. We used to give them the small donor, grassroots numbers they covet so much… it makes them look more authentic.
Just one little problem. The ballot box has been rigged. Until the perpetrators of that rigging are stopped nothing changes. Is Dhillion the one to address this? Will she spend the money it takes to win? Will she support MAGA candidates?
We do know that Mike Lindell will. He has been for several years.
RNC exists because state parties needed a mechanism to determine a presidential/vice presidential candidate acceptable to the state parties. Historically, that has been in a national convention of state parties. Of course, over time, as the powers of president increased relative to the powers of states, the nomination of presidents was seen as “too important” to be left to state politics. Hence, a national organization grew that is in many ways designed to limit the power of state parties. And of course money follows power.
State parties have been effectively neutered by creation of rules that “bind” delegates based on preference primaries or caucuses.
Dhillon or Romney-McDaniel means as much to me as Igor or Chapek at Disney. The problem with Sundance’s analysis is that I’m not smart enough to see how to exploit the information. Meaning that we, MAGA, need to actively subvert and undermine the RNC in unison.
If the RNC is driven by money, and the leadership is as entrenched as Wayne Lapierre at the NRA, then we need to attack the supply of money. I think Sundance has stated before that the RNC is majority funded by large corporate donors, not individual small donations. How do you maneuver a guy like Ken Griffin of Citadel into donating based on the
execution (not the promise) of America First power? For sure it has to benefit him more than the current dynamic. It looks to me like the RNC is positioning DeSantis to win the primary, and perhaps as a pressure valve he’ll be allowed to win the general while paying lip service to the culture war. The communists created a cultural insurgency and use things like DEI and ESG to keep people in line. They churn out angry hateful activists in higher learning liberal arts by the thousands. We have nothing in comparison, and we can’t even hold people to the rule of law.
I’m not encouraging people to give up, but we have to have more of a plan than vote harder, give moar $$$, and look to President Trump. We need to escalate to a state of political total war wherever we can, and that means taking on corporate Republicans too. Also, while we can learn lessons from the commie playbook, just copying it isn’t going to be enough.
You identify your opponents weaknesses, and then you exploit them.
Warfare is constantly about adapt and overcome.
Your enemy develops planes dropping bombs, you develop Anti-aircraft guns, to shoot the planes down.
Your enemy develops missiles, you develop anti-missile systems.
Its been that way since the beginning of warfare.
WE have identified and exploted weaknesses of our enemies.
We HAVE developed effective countermeasures.
We don’t have a coordinated command structure, a cohesive and focused fighting structure or organisation.
And, we don’t have UNITY, by any manner or means.
Our opponent DOES. And this absolute Unity of our opponents, and strong “Command and Control” even more than their apperent control of institutions, is their biggest strength, and our biggest weakness.
In argueing for removing Ronna, it should be LOUDLY pointed out that R’s lost ground in State Legislatures and Governorships, in addition to the Fed level offices.
And JUST replacing Ronna is cosmetic; unless the basic direction of the RNC changes it will be a distinction without a difference.
Harmeet has been active in pursuing legal means to counteract the election fraud that is being driven by the Democrats and will be a 100% positive change vs RINO Romney’s daughter…
Believe me, this is GOOD news!!!
I believe she is his niece. not daughter
“We need to escalate to a state of political total war wherever we can, and that means taking on corporate Republicans too. ”
Exactly, JC1974. The current Repub party however, wants “status quo” loser status.
In the minds of the elites their NWO plan is in effect but we don’t and should not accept it. We MUST push back at every level beginning with educating the cool aid drinkers to what they are actually supporting. We should not alienate anyone as we need huge numbers to be successful. Lok at Brazil – this is what we need to do here in the USA. Never give up and never give in… NEVER.
As you pointed out in the past- the RNC and DNC are private corporations. The RNC has proven they don’t care to protect the HONEST vote or the TAXPAYER..The only thing Ronna Romney has succeeded at is blowing smoke.
The two political parties are privately owned….can do just about anything they want to even if MAGA doesn’t like….the 2 parties control just about everything to do with elections. I think we need a new club!
Leave the Tories in the hands of King George III’s fine Red Coats.
Board them on ships and shove them out to Sea.
A few more Harmeet Dhillion facts:
“After moving to California in 2000, she was involved at the grassroots level in San Francisco Republican politics before twice unsuccessfully running for the state Legislature in one of the country’s most liberal cities. She chaired the city’s Republican Party before winning election as vice chair of the state GOP in 2013….”
“Most of the lawsuits were filed through the Center for American Liberty, a nonprofit Dhillon helped launch in 2018 to take on civil-liberties focused legal work, but some are through her private law firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Dhillon Law Group. The nonprofit does not have to disclose its donors.”
“Dhillon represented the California Republican Party in a successful challenge last year to a law aimed at requiring Trump to release his tax returns to be on the California ballot….”
“Jim Brulte, then the chairman of the state party, said he encouraged Dhillon to become a more public face for the party and, in 2016, to run for the Republican National Committee. He now considers her one of the most prominent Republican voices in California, behind only U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes.”
https://gvwire.com/2020/05/30/harmeet-dhillon-emerges-as-gop-voice-defender-of-constitution/
They are purposefully flooding the race with candidates to ensure that Mr. Ed wins.
Has anyone asked each candidate their thoughts on the influence that the Chamber of Commerce has had on the RNC and how that influence has been detrimental to the citizens of the United States?
Seems like it might be a key indicator of whether the RNC is worth salvaging or not.
Dhillon will be on Tucker Carlson tonight.
If so we’re about to see the backing of Tucker as if he is a MAGA person. BS. Tucker is as controlled as anyone. It’s only a matter of time before this next act comes down. Just in time for another shiny object to go up. Let’s pray that 75 million MAGA voters are real. We cannot be beaten. Stand together pray together, we will prevail.
In the next election, we need to cast 200 million straight ticket Republican ballots in a way where their creation can be traced to no individual, and which are facially valid such that the states have no choice but to count them.
No one in the RNC cares what we want, or what we think. Why should they? They’re a private organization, and we are NOT members. Nevertheless, they need an infusion of new, untainted blood…and good luck with that.
And it’s almost a certainty that whoever replaces Mitch will be the same and we have no say in it.
Message from Realville: “What does anyone actually expect out of all this”?
Perfect capture by Sundance of how each organization inherently runs. This is why the RNC is a disaster to anything MAGA, anything small town, local conservatism, populist ideas or Americana in general. I deleted and removed all email, correspondence, and pitch crap a few years ago.
If ANYONE on this wonderful treehouse thinks there is hope for the RNC, or any near term potential to overtake leadership of this party, you are clinging to a cold, dead body. I am convinced it will require a massive disaster to uproot the evil scum that lives within this party, and then it will be too late. The new blood is seeping into select offices, but far too slowly. Short of a mass transit accident that puts McConnell and his henchmen in the ground and on their way to hades, what is going to change anything? Seriously, make a convincing case for me, because the track record over these years is not convincing.
I happen to agree with you. They had their chance twice with Ron Paul and he had a massive following, many who went with Trump in 2016. There is not going to be an America under the UniParty. There will be the corp US overlording a color of law police state over the states in America proper. The purity tests and shooting allies in the head every chance they get ain’t helping at all.
So, from my personal observation, the Uniparty has existed since at least 1964, when the the RNC conspired with the DNC, had the I/C bug Barrys plane, and based on overheard strategy sessions, fed a question to a reporter, knowing what the answer would be, and hence derailing his campaign.
And yet, now that many more are FINALLY realising what has been obvious to anyone who simply LOOKED, these same formerly clueless are demanding instant victory over a long entrenched enemy, that is fighting for its survival.
Basically, you are saying “Unless we can have a quick, decisive victory, its “All over, and we might as well just give up”.
After the U.S. was attacked at Pearl Harbor, with simultaneous attacks in Manila and other key points in the Pacific, and sinking our fleet, they “owned” the Pacific, and obviously we should have just “sued for peace”.
You actually think any of US will see a victorious resolution of this Worldwide conflict against tyranny?
It has taken us 60-100 YEARS to get to this point, and its going to take GENERATIONS to gain resolution.
And, even then, even in abject defeat, those who will cheat, lie, steal and manipulate to acrue power will NOT truly be banished from this earth, as a new generation will be born, to try again.
This impatience is almost as irritating as the apathy, cluelessness and denial that preceded it.
It takes time, patience, persistence, dedication, as well as generous helping of GUILE, to win.
Nobody ever said it was going to be EASY,…nothing worth doing, is EASY.
We should passively sit on our hands and let the McConnells of the world lose.
Romney Mitch Daniel.
Nuff said. Their collective mission is to sink MAGA.
Let them SHOW how Nicely they play with others and make them Co-CHAIRS. Couldn’t happen to a Nicer Party.
I am done with the RNC.
There is NO differece between the two; they both want the same thing but different in the means
You guys stuck in the “take over the RNC” loop may want to explain to us how you think that’s going to happen.
It’s a private nonprofit NGO.
You can’t elect or unelect anyone involved.
You can’t even address it board members. 99.9999% of people can’t even name them.
The RNC counts on you “trying to take it over”… You’re just repeating an action that benefits the RNC it in a non existent race you don’t understand.
Two grifters that need to visit Jenny Craig are going to throw down? Or are they just replacing Mitt’s niece with someone just as bad thinking rank and file Republican voters are stupid?
Suggest you do your homework before posting, Lulu…. you are WAY off-base on this one….
I wonder, in Sundance’s view, which one of the RNC candidates, assuming not the medici-esque Mcdaniel, could be the black swan that could be Savaronola of the Republican party.
“ The democrats want power. The republicans want money. The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC uses power to get money.”
Truer words about these two have never been spoken.
Other than myself , no one in my immediate family
Is remotely interested in what is being discussed here.
Principled individuals all , but in a world of Covid , inflation and the responsibility of raising well adjusted, loving and educated children , this is totally off their radar.
And they are not unique.
Why do SO many women these days looks like guys in drag? What’s in the water? Why are so many of my fellow Americans overweight? Is MTG really a guy? Seriously. Remove the hair and the dress and she’d fit in down at the local pipe-fitters union.
I miss the days when women were smart AND attractive.
Ok, go ahead and flame me now. I deserve it.
Yeah, you do, but I’m not gonna give you what you deserve…
Do your homework and you’ll soon find out that Dhillon is very intelligent, a MAGA Conservative, has years of experience fighting the worst of the worst Dems in San Francisco and would be a 100% improvement over RINO Ronna Romney…
And the picture included in this article doesn’t do Harmeet any favors – she’s actually quite attractive, but I’m more interested in her work ethic and ethics and desire to remove the ROT of the RNC Chair and “leadership”…
But there is the fact that she is closely working with Barbour who has a very shady past.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/11/29/hired-by-the-rnc-harmeet-dhillon-teams-up-with-the-mitch-mcconnell-contracted-enforcer-who-destroyed-the-tea-party/
I Noticed The Number 1 Money Recipient Was Republican Party Of Ohio.DeWine Gets Re-Elected.Biden Calls Him To Congratulate.Both In The Same Club
This is a pass-off similar to Mitch to Thune, pass the chamber of commerce baton and run Harmeet!
Will Ronna McDaniel end up another Michael Steele? We shall see.
“The priority of the DNC is to win elections, assemble power and by extension control the mechanisms that deliver them wealth. The priority of the RNC is money, and by extension winning elections is not the most important thing. The priority of the RNC is the accumulation of wealth for itself.”
THIS is so spot on.