The GOP chair said Donald Trump is the best hope of beating President Joe Biden in November.
The chair of the Republican National Committee earned backlash online after she called on presidential candidate Nikki Haley to drop out of the race.
“I’m looking at the map and the path going forward and I don’t see it for Nikki Haley,” she said. “I think she has run a great campaign, but I do think there is a message that is coming out from the voters which is very clear ‘we need to unite around our eventual nominee’ which is going to be Donald Trump ‘and we need to make sure we beat Joe Biden.'”
“It is 10 months [until] the November election and we can’t wait any longer to put our foot on the gas to beat the worst president…We need to do everything we can to unite and defeat him.”
The comments caused concern among some on social media, including former House Republican aide and political strategist Rina Shah.
Shah, a self-professed member of the “Never Trump” cohort of Republicans opposed to the 45th president, said McDaniel should be “ashamed” of her comments.
