Nebraska Republicans Allege McDaniel Refused To Assist Party
Nebraska’s GOP chairman charged on Wednesday that former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel refused to help the state party on a critical issue.
Eric Underwood said that he approached McDaniel for assistance for a move that could help presumptive nominee Donald Trump gain more electoral votes. The chairwoman, he said, merely brushed aside his request.
Underwood told Charlie Kirk that McDaniel expressed her belief that the issue was “not that important.”
He said he went to the RNC in 2023 and met with McDaniel. Underwood said he told the chair, “I think this is something that is going to happen…but I need outside help.” He recalled being told “that it wasn’t much of an importance.”
The incredulous Kirk asked, “Under the prior RNC leadership, they said that another electoral vote for Republicans wasn’t a big deal?”
Underwood indicated that all he received from McDaniel was the possibility that she would talk to “one or two elected officials here and see if there’s any interest in it.” Nebraska law awards electoral college votes by congressional district instead of winner-take-all.
In a landslide, an electoral vote here or there would not matter. But all indications are that November will see a neck-in-neck race, and every vote is extremely critical.
For perspective, Barack Obama and Joe Biden culled a single electoral vote out of Nebraska in 2008 and 2020 respectively despite losing the state.
And Kirk noted on X, formerly Twitter, that a single vote may make or break Republican hopes of regaining the White House.
If Trump flips Arizona, Georgia and Nevada as polls show him doing, he would still not secure the presidency. Why? If those states are flipped and none else, he would still lose the Electoral College by one vote.
One electoral vote.
When former President Donald Trump sewed up the Republican nod for president, one of the first orders of business was a change at the top. Strong signals were sent and McDaniel wisely stepped aside.
The now-former Republican head was quickly hired by NBC News as a paid contributor. However, network hypocrites melted down over having a conservative perspective, and she was quickly terminated.
