Even as they stood by over the last month and watched five other candidates jump in the race for chairman of the Republican National Committee, the staunchest backers of current chair, Michael Steele, insisted that reports of his political demise were greatly exaggerated. On Monday night, they were partially vindicated.
Steele’s announcement that he was seeking a second term, despite the fact that he had “stumbled along the way” — his own words — during his tumultuous two-year term as chairman, took many inside and outside the GOP by surprise.
Of course, when the 168 members of the RNC vote for chairman next month, Steele could still go down in flames. The vote is a notoriously unpredictable process, and as one long-time RNC insider put it, only half-jokingly, the 168 members will head into the January vote having offered 336 pledges of support.
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