Posted on 11/14/2022 4:13:53 PM PST by Zhang Fei
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is reportedly considering a bid for chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) following his candidacy in the Empire State’s gubernatorial race, according to reports.
Activists and supporters across the country have asked Zeldin to run for the position following his unsuccessful bid to unseat incumbent New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) in blue New York. And according to Zeldin’s media consultant, John Brabender, the Republican is exploring the option.
“It’s likely that he will at least explore it. … He’s fielding calls, talking to people, listening to them, but it has not gone beyond that,” Brabender said, NBC News reported.
It remains unclear if current RNC chair, Ronna McDaniel, or her cochair, Tommy Hicks, will run for reelection, but Zeldin’s consideration follows a relatively lackluster midterm election performance for Republicans, despite the fact that the GOP had six million more votes than Democrats in House races.
While all signs point to the GOP taking the House, Democrats maintained a slim majority in the Senate, and some Republicans are demanding change moving forward.
“The people whose job it was to win but did not win should go do something else now. We’re speaking specifically of the Republican leadership of the House and the Senate and of the RNC,” Tucker Carlson said last week.
“It is nothing personal; some of them are, no doubt, nice people, but they took hundreds of millions of dollars to paint the map red, and they didn’t,” he continued, explaining that they “shouldn’t be promoted.”
“No one should ever be rewarded for failure,” he said. “If there is a truly conservative principle in life, it is the principle of the meritocracy. You reward excellence. You do not reward mediocrity, and when you do, things fall apart.”
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One of his primary opponents, Rob Astorino, lost to Cuomo in 2014 by 14%. Astorino was the Westchester county exec before running. As such, Astorino had the Westchester county Republican machine working for him. Whereas Zeldin built his political operation from scratch, starting early, sometime in 2021.
Zeldin came within a razor's edge of becoming governor based on very little money. His campaign and PAC dollars came to less than half the $70m spent on Blake Masters's abortive election effort. And Masters ran in a purple, not blue state.
Republicans in lockstep should demand Miss Romeny to resign. NOW!!!!
Not that massive Ballot Tampering/Manipulation along with Voter Fraud could be considered to be a factor.
Nah.
He’s 100x more qualified than Ronna. Is he the best option? I don’t know yet.
It’s silly to call everyone a RINO.
Yes! Do it!
No way. That would be election denial and anti-Democracy and racist and being in favor of voter suppression. No one here supports such a preposterous idea. NO ONE.
Agree!
Sounds good to me too. I was impressed by the way he really plugged along no matter the odds. He did well and I think that sort of quiet determination - with a plan - is what the RNC needs.
Especially just based on being a New Yorker. Haven't heard anyone call Trump a RINO because of his hometown.
Gee, Lee..maybe challenge the steal??
Agreed.
There may be others with great credentials, but Zeldin is serious good guy with sterling credentials and he’s the right religion to get in with the big money gangsters.
Could be watershed moment for RNC, although after everything Trump did for Israel and still gets spit on by all the Jewish orgs / Hollywood clowns it might not mean a lot.
Let Trumpy Bear decide
He has my vote dude is seriously just awesome big time respect for him
[There may be others with great credentials, but Zeldin is serious good guy with sterling credentials and he’s the right religion to get in with the big money gangsters.]
But if you think Zeldin being an MOT is gonna inspire left-wing Jews to donate to the GOP, I have one word for you. Fuhgeddaboudit. This is about ideology, not religion.
Zeldin’s backers are Anti-Trump elements.
[There may be others with great credentials, but Zeldin is serious good guy with sterling credentials and he’s the right religion to get in with the big money gangsters.]
But if you think Zeldin being an MOT is gonna inspire left-wing Jews to donate to the GOP, I have one word for you. Fuhgeddaboudit. This is about ideology, not religion.
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