DeSantis Weighs in on RNC Chair Race: ‘I Think We Need a Change’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Jan. 26 weighed in on the contentious race for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee (RNC), calling for change atop the ranks and praising Harmeet Dhillon.
In an interview with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, the Republican governor said that the three election cycles did not go the way Republicans had hoped.
“We’ve had three substandard election cycles in a row: ‘18, ’20, and ’22,” DeSantis said. “And I would say of all three of those, ‘22 was probably the worst.”
“Given the political environment of a very unpopular president in Biden, huge majorities of the people think the country is going in the wrong direction—that is an environment that’s tailor-made to make big gains in the House and the Senate and in state houses all across the country, and yet that didn’t happen.”…}