Analysis

Ronna McDaniel
Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel holds a gavel during the RNC's Winter meeting. McDaniel won a fourth term as chair.
  • Ronna McDaniel won a fourth term as chair of the Republican National Committee.
  • McDaniel's victory confirms that the GOP is doing little to respond to its disappointing midterm performance.
  • In the end, there was never really anything the GOP could change.

Republicans elected Ronna McDaniel to remain atop the GOP on Friday, confirming at the highest levels that the party will do little to address one of the most embarrassing midterm performances in decades.

McDaniel won with 111 votes. Her next closest challenger Harmeet Dhillon, one of Trump's private lawyers, received only 51 votes.