Outgoing Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk) is eyeing a run for chair of the Republican National Committee.
“It sounds like he’s in,” said one source with deep ties to New York’s business community who is talking up Zeldin.If he does challenge McDaniel, Zeldin would be the latest electoral unicorn to pivot towards national party leadership after making runs for higher office that were initially written off by members of their own party.Former Vermont Gov.
On the other side of the aisle, former RNC Chair Michael Steele used his 2006 defeat by Democrat Ben Cardin in deep-blue Maryland’s US Senate race as a springboard to the gig in 2009. The position has given other ambitious Republicans a boost as well, with former RNC Chair Reince Priebus getting hired as White House Chief of Staff after Donald Trump won the 2016 election.Thursday that he thinks he is the guy who can bring its warring factions together in time for the 2024 presidential election.
“It is time nationally for the Republican Party to retool, transform, win back the Presidency in 2024, expand our number of GOP-held seats in Congress, and elect the maximum number of down-ballot candidates across the country,” he tweeted while highlighting reports of an RNC chair run.
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