Former Florida GOP Chair Tells MSNBC That Lara Trump’s RNC Makeover is ‘Nonsense’ and ‘A Very Sad Time’

Al Cardenas, former chair of the Florida Republican Party, has come down hard on the rapid changes happening at the RNC, including mass layoffs and MAGA influences.

Cardenas told MSNBC that he felt like he was “at a funeral” for the Republican Party as he mourns the drastic changes brought about since former President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump took over as co-chair.

“You know, 1854, the birth of the Republican Party, 2024, the demise of the Republican Party,” he said, continuing:

But, look, the RNC, people need to understand what it does. You know, it recruits candidates. It works on voter registration, it works on turnout. It works on all the basics that a presidential campaign doesn’t have the time, the resources to get involved with. If you’re a candidate for public office in lower strata state legislature, school board, et cetera, who are you going to call? Frankly, the answer is nobody. They have — you know, they fired over 90 people. They’re moving a small squad to integrate with a presidential campaign by name only. They’re concentrating on lawyers and election fraud.

We did that in Florida. We created a very same mechanism they’re trying to do nationally. And, you know what we did? We ended up with three arrests, all Republicans, in the small village of The Villages, a retirement community. This is nonsense, I mean, it’s only spending millions to perpetuate the fallacy that there was election fraud in 2020. That’s all. That’s all it is, but, you know, replacing the RNC and what it does, to me, I’ve given it 40 years of my life. It breaks my heart. It takes away a major component of getting your communities involved in the political process, and now it’s all going to be dictated from the top, and you wonder what our future will be down the ballot.

Cardenas also posted an angry tweet on X (formally Twitter), telling Republicans, “Your silence and inaction is scandalous and you are equally to blame” for the path the RNC is headed.

RNC fired 90 people-not many more now work there; is moving its headquarters to Palm Beach; its now run by D Trump’s daughter in law; in essence it has become an asset less shell while MAGA runs GOP from Trump’s PACS so he can use those funds as he pleases
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— Al Cardenas (@AlCardenasFL_DC) March 13, 2024

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.