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‘These are two grown men’: RNC chair on Uncle Mitt versus Trump

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel speaks at a Monitor Breakfast at the Liaison Capitol Hill hotel in Washington, DC, on Nov. 21, 2019.

Political families are a time-honored American tradition. Start with the Adamses, then fast forward to the Roosevelts, Kennedys, and Bushes. But today, none are more relevant – or conflicted – than the Romneys. 

In one corner is Ronna (Romney) McDaniel, chair of the Republican National Committee, and in the other, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, her uncle. Both are Republicans, but they do not see eye-to-eye on the most consequential political question of the day, the presidency of Donald Trump and the impeachment inquiry into his dealings with

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