GOP’s post-Trump planning hits Trumpian obstacles: The Note

Most are hoping to get the base-activating positive side without the conspiracy-laden parts that contributed to Jan. 6.

The TAKE with Rick Klein

RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel doesn't want to talk about the not-so-long-ago possibility that former President Donald Trump would bolt the Republican Party.

On Thursday, she told reporters she would not comment on reporting in the new book by ABC's Jonathan Karl about Trump threatening to leave the GOP -- except to note, happily, that it never happened.

"If he left the party," McDaniel said at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast, "Republicans would lose."