A member of the Republican National Committee who circulated two draft resolutions opposing picking up former President Donald Trump’s legal bills said the organization’s job is to win elections.
“We should spend our finite resources on political operations and actually winning elections, and paying any candidate’s legal fees — or frankly, any other outside fees or expenses — is not the RNC’s job,” Henry Barbour, a national committeeman from Mississippi, told CNN’s Dana Bash on Inside Politics on Monday.
Barbour’s effort comes after Trump called to change the RNC’s leadership, endorsing current North Carolina GOP Chairman and RNC general counsel Michael Whatley to replace Ronna McDaniel. Trump also backed daughter-in-law Lara for RNC co-chairwoman and senior campaign adviser Chris LaCivita to be RNC’s chief operating officer.
Speaking at Trump’s South Carolina
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