If you think the the party heads(plural) don’t have any say or sway in who gets support/the nod, or not; you are sadly delusional.
So the RNC is bankrolling the current group of Candidates?
Paying out of pocket for Mitt, or Rudy or Huck?
They are all broke and have been broke for a long time.
Duncan could say he hated any one of them, and there would be nothing he could do because Hunter and Thompson were not the choices of the voters, his hands are tied.