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When Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel formed an RNC Advisory Council to help guide the GOP’s 2024 campaign strategy, no one envisioned it would become a flashpoint between freshman Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), Donald Trump, and the right-wing news site Breitbart.
And yet, miraculously, more than eight months into Britt’s tenure on this new RNC board, her position on the council—and refusal to endorse Trump because she’s on the board—has become a real headache.
In recent weeks, according to a source familiar with the matter, Breitbart noticed that Britt was the only member of the Alabama congressional delegation that hadn’t endorsed Trump. So when the news site approached the senator’s team asking about her endorsement, it left Britt in a “pickle,” as another source put it to The Daily Beast.