MAGA loyalists flip out at Ronna McDaniel over first GOP primary debate plan

Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel’s announcement on Fox News about the first 2024 GOP presidential primary debate was met with howls of outrage from supporters of Donald Trump who fear he won’t get a fair shake.

According to a report from MSNBC’s Ja’han Jones, McDaniels announced that the key debate that will bring all the announced candidates together at one time in Milwaukee will be hosted in partnership with the Young America’s Foundation which has indicated a preference for former Vice President Mike Pence.

That, in turn, has set off a war with supporters of Donald Trump, including former White House adviser Steve Bannon who criticized the decision by stating, “YAF is Never Trump and Pro Pence. How did RNC do this…..”

Pro-Trump Turning Point USA’s Tyler Bowen also lashed out, writing on Twitter, “The RNC has chosen a pro-Mike Pence 501c3 to host a debate. Just wait until you hear about the CNN debates they’re lining up…. Didn’t think it could actually get worse by getting out of the commission, but I think this may end up making the base hate the RNC even more.

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According to MSNBC’s Jones, “There are two intraparty feuds at play in the Trumpist right’s outrage over the primary debate setup. There’s the Trump-Pence feud, between the two men and their supporters. But there’s also a feud between purported youth-based organizations like TPUSA and YAF over who is best suited to lead the Republican Party’s youth outreach and, fundamentally, who should get the most institutional support to do so.”

He added, “So when you watch TPUSA folks crying over YAF’s role in the first primary debate, there’s certainly a lot of Trump fealty involved. But there appears to be a great deal of jealousy involved as well. And I, for one, am enjoying watching it all go down.”

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Salon columnist Heather Digby Parton writes about how Obamacare premiums are set to soar — something President Donald Trump had promised to replace — and now "appears to be one step too far" for Americans.

"Ten years of similar promises have shown that replacing the Affordable Care Act wasn’t so easy after all — and that the only health care plan the GOP ever truly wanted was one called 'you’re on your own,'" Digby Parton writes.

Republicans haven't introduced any alternatives, instead people are receiving notices that their healthcare premiums are set to rise, while they cut Medicaid and close a number of rural hospitals, add work requirements and deny care to millions. And although they've pointed to Project 2025, aiming to force people into a privatized version of Medicaid and "plan to open up the market to sell junk insurance plans which are worth virtually nothing," it's still a half-baked policy, the writer argues.

"But the GOP’s lack of strategy and success makes it clear the party is as flummoxed on this issue as they’ve always been, and they know it’s a loser for them," she writes.

Healthcare matters for Americans because it's something that effects their daily lives, she adds, and "it’s now on the front lines of this massive war against our social safety net."

As the Trump administration works to defund scientific research and following "the government's shambolic response during the first year of the pandemic and the damage being done every day by the administration to our scientific research community, I suspect a lot of people are feeling insecure about their actual health care these days."

That could leave room for Democrats to step in and hold the line.

"If Democrats can find the fortitude to hold out for their demands, they will have taken the first step in reining in this lawless administration and given the American people something to hold onto in these dark days," Digby Parton writes.

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