{"id":13099,"date":"2024-03-10T01:39:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T01:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13099"},"modified":"2024-03-10T01:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T01:39:44","slug":"loyalty-is-a-one-way-street-in-donald-trumps-gop-just-ask-ronna-mcdaniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13099","title":{"rendered":"Loyalty is a one-way street in Donald Trump\u2019s GOP. Just ask Ronna McDaniel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Like the party itself, McDaniel made changes and accommodations to aid and ally with Trump. Much&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/trump-calls-romney-a-great-man-but-works-to-undermine-him-and-block-senate-run\/2017\/12\/08\/4b9887f2-db82-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been written<\/a>&nbsp;about her decision to drop her maiden name, Romney, at Trump\u2019s behest. But the more consequential choice McDaniel made was to help move the party away from its establishment bearing \u2014 from which she herself came \u2014 into one that echoed Trump\u2019s political fancies. She stood by him even after he threatened to form his own party, spread conspiracies about widespread fraud, lost the 2020 election and then attempted to overturn those results.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/ronna-mcdaniel-trump-step-down-00140291\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/ronna-mcdaniel-trump-step-down-00140291<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Like the party itself, McDaniel made changes and accommodations to aid and ally with Trump. Much has been written about her decision to drop her maiden name, Romney, at Trump\u2019s behest. But the more consequential choice McDaniel made was to help move the party away from its establishment bearing \u2014 from which she herself came \u2014 into one that echoed Trump\u2019s political fancies. She stood by him even after he threatened to form his own party, spread conspiracies about widespread fraud, lost the 2020 election and then attempted to overturn those results.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/02\/08\/ronna-mcdaniel-trump-step-down-00140291<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,129,968,506,170],"class_list":["post-13099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-republican-party","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13099\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}