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How Trump Iced Ronna McDaniel, Signaling Big Trouble for the MAGA-GOP
Donald Trump's effort to oust the RNC chair looks likely to succeed. We talked to a reporter who's well sourced in the party about what's really going at the highest levels of Republican power.
This week, Donald Trump announced that he wants Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel replaced with a loyalist: Michael Whatley, the head of the North Carolina Republican Party. Behind the jockeying looms a very big story: The Trump-MAGA takeover of the GOP, and the challenges the party faces as it nominates someone facing multiple criminal indictments. We talked to Marc Caputo, a reporter for The Bulwark and author of a great new piece on McDaniel’s ouster, who helped us unravel the mysteries of GOP politics in the MAGA era.
