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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Rush Limbaugh claiming Nikki Haley’s response to Obama’s State of the Union was “absolute proof… that the Republican Party’s trying to drive conservatives out of the party” was “completely false.”
Thursday on CNN’s “The Lead” with Jake Tapper, Priebus argued, “I mean, the truth is no matter who you’re for, whether any one of the 12 candidates, the one thing that we have to have is a national party that has its act together when it comes to the mechanics, the ground game, the data operation, the thousands of people that we pay across the country to register voters and to make sure that no matter who wins that we’re a heck of a lot better than we were in 2012.”
Tapper asked Priebus how to combat the kind of narrative that causes Limbaugh to say that South Carolina governor Nikki Haley’s speech in response to President Obama’s State of the Union was “proof and it’s an example of so much. For one thing it’s almost absolute proof of what I have been saying for the last couple years now that the Republican Party’s trying to drive conservatives out of the party.” (RELATED: Limbaugh: Nikki Haley Is Proof Elites Are Trying To Decide Who Is And Who Isn’t Qualified To Be A Republican [AUDIO])
“Well, it’s completely false and you know there’s no base in fact of it,” Priebus claimed. “I mean, the truth is no matter who you’re for, whether any one of the 12 candidates, the one thing that we have to have is a national party that has its act together when it comes to the mechanics, the ground game, the data operation, the thousands of people that we pay across the country to register voters and to make sure that no matter who wins that we’re a heck of a lot better than we were in 2012.”
“Now, I can’t think of a single controversial thing about that. So you know, no matter who wins, if you don’t have a Republican National Committee that’s really good, they will lose for sure. So we win if we have a good nominee and a good national party. We lose if we don’t. It’s pretty simple,” Priebus said.