By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-21 19:07:56 | Updated at 2024-11-22 00:11:13
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Ronna McDaniel: Gaetz ‘wasn’t going to win a congeniality contest’
The Hill ^ | 11/21/2024 | Dominick Mastrangelo
Posted on 11/21/2024 10:57:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel said former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general, did the right thing in withdrawing from consideration for the position after it became clear he would not be confirmed by the Senate.
“He came here, he started meeting with senators and they started doing the math,” McDaniel said of Gaetz’s effort to win Senate votes for confirmation during an appearance on CNN as the news was breaking. “This was dominating the news, there was the drip drip, and it was becoming a distraction.”
Gaetz’s personality was a liability for Trump, McDaniel suggested, saying “a lot of people” agree with his decision to withdraw.
“It was hard for some of these senators. … He wasn’t winning a congeniality contest,” she said. “And then he suddenly was in a position where he needed to say I need your support and your vote.”
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: congeniality; contest; gaetz; mcndaniel
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Nobody asked you. STFU
To: ChicagoConservative27
Water under the bridge, move on.
2 posted on 11/21/2024 10:59:42 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
To: ChicagoConservative27
I didn’t want him to win a congeniality contest.
3 posted on 11/21/2024 11:00:09 AM PST by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Ronna McDaniel would lose a Jeopardy game to a rodent and a broccoli plant
4 posted on 11/21/2024 11:01:52 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
To: ChicagoConservative27
5 posted on 11/21/2024 11:03:41 AM PST by Hattie
To: BigFreakinToad
“This was dominating the news, there was the drip drip, and it was becoming a distraction.”
Voting for any RepukeLicking other than REAL Republicans President Trump or Vice President J.D. Vance is "becoming a distraction”, Ronna McAssistantDemocrat.
6 posted on 11/21/2024 11:04:05 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: ChicagoConservative27
“during an appearance on CNN...”
And there it is.....don’t be surprised if this little twit ends up with a gig on cnn as a “republican commentator”.
7 posted on 11/21/2024 11:06:14 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Trump perfectly knew that Gaetz would have ZERO chance as AG. And that’s exactly WHY Trump appointed him! To get him ejected from the House and play some political acrobatics useful for Trump.
Gaetz was used as a rag-doll according to Trump style 4d chess playing.
8 posted on 11/21/2024 11:06:35 AM PST by USA-FRANCE
To: SaxxonWoods
Water under the bridge, move on.
Whistling past the graveyard.
9 posted on 11/21/2024 11:06:48 AM PST by FreeReign
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