RNC chairwoman acknowledged Biden’s 2020 victory: ‘He’s the
“Painfully, Joe Biden won the election and it’s very painful to watch. He’s the President. We know that,” McDaniel said at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, DC.
While the RNC has for months criticized Biden in press releases and rapid response materials, McDaniel’s comments Thursday marked the first time the party chairwoman has clearly stated that Biden “won” the 2020 election.
“I’m not a constitutional scholar,” McDaniel said.
Despite encouraging Republicans to focus on pocketbook issues and their political opponents as next year’s midterm elections approach, McDaniel did not bat down Trump’s relentless focus on relitigating the 2020 election or his attempts to strong-arm GOP governors and lawmakers into supporting election audits in various states.
“I think every Republican right now should be talking about 2022. I’m not talking about anything else other than what Biden is doing to destroy our country: high gas prices, an open border, an opioid crisis,” she said. “Everybody else can do their own thing, but I think we should be talking about Joe Biden.”
However, McDaniel added, Republicans in certain parts of the country can also benefit from talking about election reform.
“We have to talk about the things that people saw,” she said when asked about Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud. “We have to show our voters we are putting processes in place that will ensure the election is fair and transparent.”
Over the summer, for instance, the RNC issued a 23-page report accusing Democrat-led states of using the Covid-19 pandemic to change election practices to the benefit of Democratic candidates. The report claimed there were numerous instances in the 2020 election where Democrats “brought chaos and uncertainty to our sacred Democratic processes” and made a series of policy recommendations for Republicans to pursue — including the elimination of universal mail-in voting.
With McDaniel at its helm, the RNC also joined Trump’s 2020…
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