Nowhere to Ronna

Ronna McDaniel is attempting to manage the R.N.C.’s dire financials, messaging problems, and the ego of the party’s putative presidential nominee. But time may be running out for the chairwoman as Mar-a-Lago looks to wrap up the primary and put a Trump loyalist in charge.

Trump’s beef with Ronna McDaniel isn’t quite the customary tango: McDaniel, after all, is a well-disciplined Trumpite: She says all the right things, delivered Michigan for him in 2016, and her maiden name still makes her a prized establishment convert. Photo: David McNew/Getty Images

Tara Palmeri

February 2, 2024

In a week or less, the largely soulless parcel of parched desert known as Las Vegas—that old stopover for G.I.s on the way to the West Coast, as Hyman Roth noted—will be overrun by billionaires, marketers, C.E.O.s, groupies, hangers-on, partygoers, and Taylor Swift in advance of the Super Bowl. But for the past week, the town has played host to a decidedly less glamorous lot. It has served, in fact, as a hotbed of Republican political fervor.